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Infrastructure monitoring of the Delft-FEWS Virtual Machines is done with Azure Monitoring Services. This requires installing the IaaSDiagnostics extension on the virtual machine.
Azure Service Bus
It is possible to configure the Delft-FEWS System Alerter to sent events to the Azure Service Bus. This allows triggering external applications (for example a azure function) based on events in the Delft-FEWS system. For more information, see: Azure Service Bus Alerts
Security
For Delft-FEWS in the cloud the same principles apply for security as on premise: Security - Shared responsibility model for Delft-FEWS system installations. Securing your cloud assets requires continuous investment in keeping your containers safe. An infamous example of malconfigured Kubernetes has been Tesla's unsecured admin console for a Kubernetes cluster. This led to malicious actors getting hold of credentials for Tesla's wider AWS environment who used it for cryptomining. Tesla highlighted that it was a test instance "only", but this incident shows why it's really important to secure both production and pre-production resources as far as possible.
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