# Why Bastions Still Matter for Secure Remote Access to Cloud Infrastructure

DevFeed: [Why Bastions Still Matter for Secure Remote Access to Cloud Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/do-you-still-need-a-bastion-29632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/do-we-still-need-a-bastion/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [remote access](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/remote-access.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [OpenSSH](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openssh.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>)

Tags: [bastion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bastion.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [openssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openssh.md>), [remote-access](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote-access.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that bastions remain a recommended solution for managing secure remote access to cloud infrastructure, despite shifts toward identity-, data-, and compute-based security perimeters and software-defined networking.

## Source excerpt

Cloud, serverless, immutable infrastructure, Kubernetes - Where do bastions fit in these scenarios? Do we even need one?