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With time, the complexity of computational models has significantly increased. Practically, it doesn’t seem convenient to perform all computationally expensive tasks on individual computers. It results in increased dependence and demand for cloud services. This course introduces and navigates through possible career choices in cloud computing.

The course will introduce you to various cloud computing services and different service models. Next, you’ll navigate through different career choices in the field of cloud computing and conclude with the requirements of each career choice. 

By the end of this course, you’ll understand the basics of cloud engineering and the responsibilities of a cloud engineer—planning, designing, monitoring, and managing cloud applications within an organization. This working knowledge will enable you to become a specialized cloud engineer in cloud software engineering and cloud security.

Navigating Cloud Engineering as a Career Path

# Policy compliance

Cloud services should be compliant with useful standards for their customers. A typical example of data protection on the cloud is the **GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)**  requirement. This requirement ensures that systems should adhere to specific data protection and privacy principles for operations within a European Union (EU) member state.

As a result, the security teams for cloud service providers operating in the EU must ensure that their services are GDPR compliant to prevent legal issues.


# Infrastructure and application security
Providers secure their operating system and physical infrastructure in the cloud while PaaS customers secure their applications and data.

However, when building a cloud application that will be hosted on this infrastructure, some best practices take us steps closer to meeting our applications security objectives, including:

## Threat modeling
This engineering process allows us to identify possible threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks in our application. If there are design flaws that attackers can take advantage of, the team would learn about that during this process. Incorporating threat modeling as part of an engineering process allows teams to enhance security and mitigate identified threats.

Get to know the cloud security focus areas.

Brief History of Computing and the Internet

Cloud Computing

Cloud Service Models

Cloud Engineering Career Paths

Requirements for Cloud Engineering Career Paths

Cloud-native Applications

Conclusion

Cloud Security Focus Areas

Policy compliance

Infrastructure and application security