Amazon reaching out to enterprise customers with its secured cloud computing strategy (WIP)

TTB — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:18:47 +0000

With all the opportunity and interest around SaaS, PaaS or IaaS architectures, enterprises have been very skeptical of cloud computing security.

Amazon recently announced a series of initiatives to make EC2, S3 and the other Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities more secure, and to clarify the level of security currently in place:

(from the press release)

Certifications and Accreditations
AWS is actively seeking the appropriate security certifications and accreditations in order to provide our customers with additional confidence in our infrastructure. In addition, we will continue to publish guidance on how AWS enables customers to build applications that are compliant with standards, such as HIPAA.

Physical Security
Amazon has many years of experience in designing, constructing, and operating large-scale data centers. AWS infrastructure is housed in Amazon-controlled data centers throughout the world. Only those within Amazon who have a legitimate business need to have such information know the actual location of these data centers, and the data centers themselves are secured with a variety of physical barriers to prevent unauthorized access.

Secure Services
Each of the services within the AWS cloud is architected to be secure and contains a number of capabilities that restrict unauthorized access or usage without sacrificing the flexibility that customers demand. For more information about the security capabilities of each service in the AWS cloud, consult the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper.

Data Privacy
AWS enables users to encrypt their personal or business data within the AWS cloud and publishes backup and redundancy procedures for services so that customers can gain greater understanding of how their data flows throughout AWS. For more information on the data privacy and backup procedures for each service in the AWS cloud, consult the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper.

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Cloud , SaaS could be more expensive – there u go i got your attention

TTB — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:41:26 +0000

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Another day and one more analyst says SaaS could be more expensive.

Want to save money using SaaS? Be wary of contract terms

Companies can end up spending more on SaaS than they would for an in-house application

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/want-save-money-using-saas-be-wary-contract-terms-880

Every other day there is some analyst firm that warns enterprise customers to be careful and this new technology(cloud services) could be expensive. Hasn’t this been the case for any investment and nothing unique to Cloud services. Enterprise customers will have to size and buy cloud services the same way they assess when thy buy fixed infrastructure, software licensing or technology services.

Traditional software budgets have been complex and prone to risk of high cost. With elements of cost like software license, database license, hardware, implementation services, training, annual maintenance and other internal costs and software licenses have been complex to say the least with enterprise software companies pricing their services on concurrent users, named users, active and casual users, modules, employees, revenue, transactions, processors, site licenses .

Are some analysts overstating what is obvious to enterprise customers just to make themselves relevant. A discussion around True- Cost of Cloud ( T-CoC) as useful work accomplished per dollar invested, is a more useful approach.

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Amazon reaching out to enterprise customers with its secured cloud computing strategy (WIP)

Cloud , SaaS could be more expensive – there u go i got your attention