Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

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At Datadog, we build and operate a complex, self-managed infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and serves many customers in regulated environments. We need to secure this large, distributed infrastructure while maintaining strict uptime requirements and scaling our finite people resources. In this post, I’ll detail the playbook that we use on Datadog’s Cloud Security team for securing our infrastructure, including.

As organizations worldwide race to transform themselves digitally in a cloud-first world, many are doing so to the detriment of their businesses by failing to assess the security risks posed by their cloud applications and services. This oversight is not only a security issue but a core business risk that differentiates market leaders from those who are sure to face expensive setbacks and regulatory headaches.

Cloud security teams are often faced with an onslaught of noise from their detection tooling, making it nearly impossible to distinguish truly malicious threats from benign behaviors. Many threats will go uninvestigated simply because there aren’t enough analysts for the sheer amount of alerts, leaving organizations exposed to potential breaches.

We are often asked how Rubrik Security Cloud differs from AWS Backup. It's a valid question because, at first glance, the two solutions seem similar. Both have cloud-first, API-driven architectures. Both are built specifically to ensure reliable backup and recovery for data stored across AWS. Both support a wide range of the most popular AWS workloads including EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and EKS.

At Rubrik, we rely on a multi-tenant architecture to store customer metadata in a large fleet of Cloud SQL database instances. With numerous production deployments globally, each supporting multiple customer accounts, maintaining high availability, performance, and robustness across this infrastructure is critical. Managing a large fleet of Cloud SQL instances and ensuring they remain resilient and performant has been a journey filled with valuable lessons.