Checklist for designing cloud-native applications – Part 2: Security aspects

This post was originally published by the Cloud Security Alliance.


In Chapter 1 of this series about considerations when building cloud-native applications, we introduced various topics such as business requirements, infrastructure considerations, automation, resiliency, and more.


In this chapter, we will review security considerations when building cloud-native applications.

IAM Considerations - Authentication

Identity and Access Management plays a crucial role when designing new applications.


We need to ask ourselves – Who are our customers?


If we are building an …

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