The text discusses the challenges of cloud-native compliance and security in a rapidly growing and ephemeral environment. Organizations face difficulties in managing large volumes of log data, which is essential for security and compliance purposes, due to ballooning costs and limited retention periods. However, modern observability techniques can alleviate these challenges by centralizing all security telemetry, providing continuous monitoring at lower cost, and enabling full visibility across the entire infrastructure and tools to tackle internal and external threats. Three effective tips for cloud-native compliance are outlined: checking security components, collecting app and infrastructure data continuously, and instituting a solid data retention policy for the organization. Adopting tools that provide cost-effective data retention and removing unnecessary retention limits can also support the cloud data retention strategy. Ultimately, teams can lower the cost of observability while retaining the data needed to meet their cloud-native security requirements by implementing a best-of-breed approach.