How to Overcome the Challenges of Cloud Environments

Cloud environments offer many benefits, including speed in scale, speed and agility. However they also have a number of challenges. IT infrastructures also present numerous challenges. The challenges are different in severity depending on the type of industry, infrastructure and long-term goals of an organization. However, they may include app and data governance, security, and performance issues.

The biggest issue with cloud-based environments is getting to the perfect level of elasticity – when the resources allocated to applications perfectly match the demand. Ideally they are delivered without affecting the application’s response time and an enterprise only pays for what it uses. In spite of these goals, the reality is that a lot of cloud environments aren’t agile enough to handle high load which causes increased latency and reduces the responsiveness of applications.

Another issue is making sure that the right policies are in place to address security, compliance and governance concerns. This requires policies that are in line with regulatory frameworks and requirements, such as standards for data handling and storage, and security measures like logging, monitoring and security measures, such as threat detection and access controls.

The lack of a defined cloud resource provisioning procedure can result in an inefficient and chaotic management of cloud resources, which could result in data breaches and violations of compliance. To combat this teams should define budgetary and approval workflows to ensure that they use resources according to best practices and not wasting money on capacity that is not utilized.

Sticker shock from unoptimized development in CDEs can also be prevented by making cloud cost visibility a part of existing dashboards and identifying waste due to overly granular permissions or regional inconsistencies. In addition, companies should create budgets that cap the cost of development infrastructure per month without limiting productivity.

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