A Cloud Security Baseline for Business Applications

Private subnets for data stores, security groups that deny by default, TLS everywhere, encryption at rest with managed keys — table stakes, verified not assumed.

Policy-as-code catching public buckets, open ports, and untagged resources in CI — baselines that rely on vigilance decay; automated ones don't.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.