Compliance inheritance refers to the practice in cloud compliance where a customer leverages a set of pre- approved regulatory or standards-based controls that have been established and validated by a compliant cloud provider. Essentially, the cloud provider implements these controls, and the customer inherits the provider's compliance framework to meet their own regulatory requirements. This allows customers to benefit from the provider's compliance efforts without having to implement everything themselves.
Automated compliance refers to automating compliance tasks and processes but does not describe the practice of inheriting compliance controls. Attestation inheritance is not a standard term used in cloud compliance; attestation typically refers to formally certifying or declaring compliance. Audit inheritance would relate to the inheritance of audit reports or records, but it doesn't describe the broader process of inheriting compliance controls.