# Secure Access to Cloud Infrastructure is Painful

DevFeed: [Secure Access to Cloud Infrastructure is Painful](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/secure-access-to-cloud-infrastructure-is-painful-29824.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/secure-infrastructure-access/>)

Author: ev@goteleport.com (Ev Kontsevoy)

Published: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

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>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/audit.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

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## AI overview

The article explains why securing access to modern cloud infrastructure is difficult as environments expand to include virtual machines, load balancers, storage volumes, and databases. It presents access as four capabilities: connectivity, authentication, authorization, and audit or observability, while also acknowledging the author's bias toward Teleport.

## Source excerpt

Secure remote access to cloud infrastructure is painful. Access Platform technology allows consolidating access in one place.