Cloud workloads are deployed into highly dynamic environments, often utilizing and coexisting with a wide variety of cloud providers and third-party platforms and services. The workloads themselves can range from legacy applications that have been migrated from traditional on-premises data centers, to applications that have been built specifically to run on cloud platforms, to entirely serverless applications. They may run unchanged for weeks or months, or only exist for a few seconds.
Many Ways to 'Secure' Cloud Workloads
There are also many ways to monitor and protect cloud workloads, including agent-based third-party solutions, cloud provider monitoring and logging services, cloud perimeter firewalls, and WAFs. Like anything in life, security technologies come with certain advantages and drawbacks, so organizations often deploy a variety of cloud workload security solutions depending on their regulatory environment, desired security posture, and aversion to risk.
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