The cloud is very dynamic and hence, automation is significant to ensure security and compliance.

Digitization made industries migrate to the cloud for flexible and cost-effective data storage on an on-demand basis. Security and data protection was one of the key factors of cloud migration. Well, it turned out to be not so safe later. Cloud can be a highly vulnerable platform and lead to security breaches. Cloud automation can relieve the platform from attaining backlashes. Automating cloud enables continuous monitoring and evaluation of ITOps and DevOps. It also helps in detecting threats and providing efficient data for audits.

Cloud automation is necessary to alleviate cloud compliance challenges and security breaches like,

• In the current scenario, organizations work on different clouds simultaneously and access data from numerous devices and platforms. This makes it difficult to monitor data sources and storage spaces. Thus, clear cloud management strategies are important.

• The auditing time is more since it involves data collection, organization, and analysis of a large data pool that is not secure. This will lag behind the auditing process of IT operations and processes.

• Cloud does not comply with data security practices and policies. It might be a threat to consumer credentials. There are alarming security gaps in the cloud infrastructure. The security and compliance control of cloud systems is vulnerable and keeps changing.

Cloud automation takes charge of these challenges to deliver a minimum-labour, maximum-efficiency workflow pattern in enterprises.  Automation enables continuous monitoring of the cloud infrastructure to understand and detect security breaches quickly. In this scenario, there is no need for highly qualified IT engineers to critically analyze the systems. This reduces human errors, cyber-attacks, and malicious software from crashing the cloud. Automation also allows an easier backing up process of the cloud to predict and prevent downtimes and security issues.

Autoscaling is a significant feature of cloud automation. Autoscaling enables scaling up or down the utilities, computing devices, costs, active servers to manage and balance workload.

Cloud automating enables the automation of both on-premise and cloud-native applications, making the business growth more scalable, agile, and efficient. It further streamlines cloud computing, security auditing, evidence collection through SaaS, network configuration, and much more. Since automated clouds take over resource scalability and IT development, it becomes easier to focus on more skilled tasks and unease the speed of innovation.

Cloud automation is the only way to curb cybersecurity breaches and initiate a cost-effective and time-efficient innovation process for enterprises. The flexible and scalable nature of automated cloud platforms ensures agility and resilience in business growth.