Lazy logging in the cloud will cost you big
How much of your public cloud do you need to log? According to enterprise managers, everything. And why not? They have access to virtually unlimited processing and storage resources, so they turn on all logs.
Logging comes in different flavors. You can log the use of storage systems, such as Amazon Web Services' S3, log the use of databases, log the use of server instances, log the network, log security, and log governance.
Moreover, you can choose the granularity with which the logs record events. You can record everything or only certain events, such as failure to write to a disk. However, sometimes for log controls, everything is either on or off.
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