With the continuous transition of computing technologies towards miniaturisation, thin clients and centrally coordinated infrastructures that are fed updates through the push-pull model, one thing seems certain – the cloud is the future.
This on-going adaptation will require digital investigations to adapt too: from incident response in the cloud environments, OSINT-driven investigations, to cloud-based digital forensics.
In order to investigate or respond to threats, one must first understand the environment.
Regardless of who the service provider is, the cloud is a combination of physical and virtual computing resources, spread all around the world, rented on a short term / long term basis by digital “tenants”.
Learning about it can be useful for any digital investigator. And in fact, there has never been as much free educational content available as now when it comes to cloud computing.
To start off, here are some links to official cloud documentation: