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Hardened Cloud Applications

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In the previous chapters, we examined the capabilities of two cloud platforms—Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services—and took a quick tour of application classifications. In this chapter, I will tie it all together by showing you how to host a “hardened” application on the cloud platform. However, before we venture into how to harden an application, let us get a better understanding of why it is important to harden an application and then review the features of a hardened application.

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© 2019 Suren Machiraju and Suraj Gaurav

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Machiraju, S., Gaurav, S. (2019). Hardened Cloud Applications. In: Hardening Azure Applications. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4188-2_3

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