Cloud database considerations

There are a few considerations when we decide to move to cloud databases. The previous chapter covered the various business, technical, and design considerations you must go through before choosing the right database for your application or business. Here, we want to address a few more cloud-specific aspects to keep in mind while approaching a cloud database design:

• Security, regulations, privacy, and compliance: Security is the most important software design and delivery factor, and it sometimes can pose a challenge as well, depending upon the nature of the data and the complexity of your requirements. Teams and organizations should pay attention to cloud security standards, configurations, regulatory requirements for their product, regional (geo-specific) requirements, encryption features and stages, business policies, and other best practices and guidelines.
• Cost: Even though we have established that you only pay as you go or pay per use...