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Cloud data flows

Cloud data flows

In this lesson, we're going to discuss cloud data flows. Now, I want you to know for the exam, there are really two types of data flows to be aware of. We're going to look later at data flow diagrams, and that's going to come into play with application threat modeling. For example, using stride or dread or techniques like that. So we'll talk about data flow diagrams again, but now we're talking about Cloud data flows and how data is going to flow as a customer and your resources in the Cloud. So we have several options and things to be aware of. So if we're out here on the public Internet, we may have a web client. That's one possibility. We may also have a different client that's going to be using maybe an API, Application Programming Interface, and perhaps that's going to go through some elastic load balancer. So application elastic load balancer, and then that will be load balancing across target groups, for example, in a subnet, maybe you've got your front-end web servers, maybe…

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