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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by marcosdumay on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:11PM (#29554164)
Offload what exactly? You mean making the same decisions, but through an opaque badly documented panel? Or you mean paying somebody to keep your OS up to date?

Going into the cloud does not alleviate any security decision. You can't buy security.

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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by manigandham on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:20PM (#29610772)
> "You can't buy security."

Of course you can. In this case, many of those decisions are already made for you in the cloud.

A simple example would be using RDS for a database service. It's secure by default and only the credentials are an issue, compared to running a database of your own somewhere internally that may be exposed in dozens of ways. Less decisions, less surface area, more documented reference setups to follow, more scanning and analysis tools means better overall security posture with less work.

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