What's next?

Now that you've reached the end of this book, we thought we would provide some recommendations regarding what you should do next.

Plan ahead

For each new project you review, from a cloud security point of view, thoroughly read through both the business and technological goals. Then, after understanding both of them, invest time into adding the relevant security controls.

Automate

This book covers many recommendations and best practices for using AWS, Azure, and GCP built-in services.

Invest some time into learning how to automate the recommended settings using IaC.

Consider learning about and using Terraform for IaC since it provides connectivity for all the major cloud providers and since it is becoming a standard that most organizations are using for automation.

Think big

Instead of looking at a specific cloud environment and how to secure it, think about highly scalable cloud environments that are spread across multiple data centers...