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In today’s world, the main question is not whether we have data but rather how we use it. Many professionals refer to data as the gold mine of the 21st century, emphasizing its potential to drive business growth and innovation.

For years, the cloud was considered the ultimate in security and cost savings. But now some companies are wondering whether moving to the cloud was really the right decision. Security concerns, rising costs and regulatory challenges are making on-premise solutions more attractive again. In this blog post, I'll look at the causes of this cloud disillusionment and suggest alternatives.

Traditionally, deployment pipelines use protected secrets to access cloud providers. These have to be managed in DevOps platforms and rotated regularly. OpenID Connect provides a modern approach: pipelines request short-lived tokens directly from the cloud provider. This blog post covers key aspects of this approach, current support from cloud providers and DevOps platforms, and shows an implementation using GitHub Actions and Azure.

The cloud is often touted as a more sustainable operating model – but it is not automatically so. Only through conscious action can it realise its ecological advantages. This blog post shows how companies can effectively use the cloud to achieve sustainability goals while optimising costs.

To successfully transport an application to the cloud, it is not only the technical parameters and a functioning infrastructure that are crucial. It is much more important to consider all facets of the software and align it with the corporate strategy. adesso's analysis approach creates an overall technical and business picture that makes sustainably successful cloud use possible in the first place.

The path to the cloud is diverse, the goals are often unclear, and each customer is at a different point on their journey and brings their own corporate culture with them. These are just a few of the typical challenges our customers face. With our adesso process model, we address precisely these hurdles and support our customers in migrating applications to the cloud, modernising applications or developing new cloud-native applications.

SAP is aggressively marketing Clean Core. What is new about it, how does it differ from previous standardisation goals? The blog post provides a compact insight into the topic of Clean Core and shows the approach adesso is taking to successfully establish the approach in organisations.

Even if you are a seasoned AWS CDK/CloudFormation veteran, it has most likely happened to you that you tried to work with a resource that was not yet available in CDK/CloudFormation (looking at you Lake Formation). Luckily if the resource and the accompanying operations are available through the AWS API then you are in good luck as AWS has a way to incorporate these API calls into your templates/code and bridge the gap created by the unavailability of some resources.

Modern IT has been full of buzzwords and groundbreaking approaches in the past few years. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the latter. IaC is the practice of defining your infrastructure through code templates rather than using a GUI or manual effort. Using IaC has several benefits, such as better reusability, CI/CD integration, etc.; but most notably: it helps you achieve greater speed by treating infrastructure like 'cattle' – not' pets.' While IaC tools have made a long way since they first emerged, and a few purpose-built languages have also popped up, the need to approach such things from traditional programming languages has never disappeared. Pulumi and CDK from AWS are such tools, and, in this blog post, we will be exploring the latter.