Understanding and Securing Cloud Environment

Cloud is the term we hear very frequently now days. I have also covered some of the aspects of cloud in my previous blogs. So in this blog we will actually learn about the cloud security and its architecture. How the things works in the cloud and its architecture.

What is Cloud architecture/Cloud deployment Models?

There are different type of cloud models and their architecture depending on the ownership or hosting location they are classified into these following

i. Public/Multi-tenant:

CSP (Cloud service provider) provide some cloud services over internet and these cloud machines of infrastructure are on public facing internet.

Advantage:

User has to pay only as much as they use.

Disadvantage:

As resource are shared, there is a security risk and performance issue.

Note: There is one Hosted Private, that is more secure but costly.

ii. Private:

As the name suggest these are completely private and cant be reached through the internet. They needs an VPN file in order to connect to the cloud. Mostly used by banking or government sector because they require…