The efficient use of cloud technologies The hyperscaler is almost essential for companies these days to maintain competitiveness. However, the cloud always creates skepticism on topics such as: costs, security, sovereignty and sovereignty.
Events like the stolen Master key from Microsoft show that a certain caution is justified and that companies must be aware that also hyperscalers can make mistakes. In this article we will show when and how the public cloud should be used to benefit from the advantages and what technical solutions exist for justified skeptics.
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Advantages of using cloud hyperscalers
The use of cloud hyperscalers offers a variety of advantages that make the IT infrastructure more efficient and flexible.
Scalability: Resources can be adjusted quickly and easily as required, without waiting and without expensive hardware investments. This makes it possible to react to sudden demands and at the same time save costs if fewer resources are needed.
Cost efficiency: The usage -based price model, in which only the resources actually used are paid, can lead to significant cost savings. In addition, the costs for maintenance and operation of their own data centers are eliminated.
Innovative strength: Access to the latest technologies without having to invest themselves in their development promotes innovative strength and enables new business ideas to be implemented faster.
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Reasons for skepticism
Despite the numerous advantages, there are also legitimate reasons that speak against the use of cloud hyperscalers.
Security: One of the most common reasons is security concerns because control over company data is submitted to external providers. This can increase the risk of data loss, cyber attacks and data protection violations. Although cloud providers invest significant funds in security measures, the risk remains that sensitive data will fall into the wrong hands.
Provider dependency: Cloud use can lead to a strong dependency, the so-called Vendor Lock-In, so that it becomes difficult and expensive to change the provider or adapt the cloud strategy. Accordingly, you can find yourself in a situation in which you are at the mercy of the conditions and pricing models of the provider.
Hidden costs: Although Cloud Hyperscaler is often presented as a cost -efficient solution, hidden costs can occur that drive the total costs up. This includes fees for data transmissions, additional security measures or special services. In the long term, these costs could exceed the expected savings and make financial planning more difficult.
Compliance with legal requirements: Depending on the industry, strict compliance and regulatory requirements must be met. The use of certain cloud services can make compliance with these requirements more difficult, especially if (meta) data is stored and transmitted in different countries.
Unfounded fears and misunderstandings
A common misunderstanding is that the cloud is generally more insecure than local IT infrastructures. In fact, large cloud providers invest considerable funds in the safety of their systems and offer often a higher level of safety as many companies can provide themselves. This includes advanced encryption techniques, regular security updates and comprehensive safety protocols.
Another common misunderstanding is that data in the cloud no longer is subject to national data protection laws. In fact, many cloud providers offer the option of storing data in certain geographical regions in order to To ensure compliance with local data protection regulations.
Best Practices
From our experience in various industries and technological environments, some best practices have arisen that are available when using public cloud providers:
“There are only production systems in the cloud”. This sentence was memorized by us after an attack on a developer environment was noticed in which technologies were tested. Even if there are not critical data in every environment, you should always be aware of the coststhat can arise from a successful attack. Accordingly, we have used Production Ready infrastructure configurations (IAC) in all subsequent projects. This procedure slow down the development of new features, However, maintains the security of all environment.
“Acceleration through harmonization”. The cloud offers a lot of services and configuration options and accordingly many misalignments for scalability, cost efficiency, resilience and security. Especially in migration and transition projects, the Establishment of a central platform team highlighted as an accelerator. By providing audited and prepared infrastructure, CI/CD and software modules, not all of them have to be a cloud professional in development and can concentrate on their actual task. Besides that the central administration allows quick adjustments At one point, for example to meet a new security requirement.
The “second cloud approach” reduces the risk of data lossCompromising and at the same time enables faster migration. We implemented this approach to synchronize the data of a platform with a second (German) cloud provider. In combination with a Health Check, the new data source could be used within a few seconds if the original database could no longer be used.
The true Advantages of the cloud are in native servicesthat do without additional management, maintenance and ultimately costs. In addition, these services also offer the Pay-Per-Use models that are excellently suitable for unforeseeable use. Unfortunately, these services also require the highest degree of Vendor Lock-in, which many companies deter. In order to close this scissors between portability and developer performance, we have used Cloud-tag technologies (Openfaasd & Funqy), which serve as wrappers for the actual services, such as Azure Functions and AWS Lambda. In this way a Basic portability produced become.
Support from the Conet Cloud Excellence program
The Cloud-Excellence-Programm The Conet Group offers impartial and agnostic end-to-end support in the introduction and use of cloud technologies.
The special strength of Conet lies in more than 30 years of experience with essential and critical systems. These expertise enables us to develop tailor -made cloud solutions for our customersthat meet the highest requirements (BSI 200, Cloud act, GDPR and Dora). Conet understands the specific challenges associated with the transfer of on-premises systems to hybrid scenarios and offers comprehensive support with the Cloud Excellence program.
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With the safe, highly available and powerful Conet Cloud, you are in the best hands for questions of safe digitization and cloud transformation-in the operation of hyperscalers and in the safety in cloud environments as well as in cloud readiness checks, analysis and optimization of your infrastructure up to to the development and implementation of your individual cloud strategy.
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Philip Zweihoff is the department head for public cloud projects with a focus on individual software development.
Source: https://www.conet.de/blog/cloud-hyperscaler-berechtigte-skepsis-oder-unbegruendete-angst/
