Cloud operations have entered a strange new phase. The distinction between keeping systems running and keeping them secure has vanished. What looks like a reliability problem often turns out to be a security issue in disguise, and vice versa. Teams managing uptime are now, whether they planned for it or not, managing defense.
This shift didn’t happen because someone decided it should. It happened because modern infrastructure forced it. The evidence sits in incident reports from the past eighteen months — outages caused by security tools, breaches that first appeared as performance problems, and configuration mistakes that somehow managed to be both at once.
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