A version of the following article appeared on TechTarget SearchAWS as Four principles of AWS cost management The cost calculus of moving applications from on-premise infrastructure to cloud services like AWS is akin to going from a fixed-price, all-you-can-eat buffet to an à la carte cafeteria. Gone is the incentive to consume as much as possible in order to… Read More »
A verson of this article originally appeared on TechTarget SearchAWS as Rely on cloud security policy — not tools — to protect AWS Managing security policies and incidents on IaaS can be complex and challenging. Here’s what vendors are doing about it Once enterprises move workloads to cloud infrastructure, they soon realize that the tools for enforcing security policy… Read More »
A version of this article originally appeared on TechTarget SearchAWS as Where AWS monitoring tools fall short AWS has a rich set of management APIs, automation tools and a central management console, but it can’t yet provide end-to-end performance and troubleshooting data AWS has an overwhelming list of services, but piecing together a multi-tier application design and then… Read More »
A version of this article originally appeared in TechTarget SearchAWS as Cloud cost comparison foggy at best News of continued price cuts were noticeably absent at AWS re:Invent and scarce in 2015. Have we hit bottom and what does it mean for enterprises? Buying cloud services used to resemble shopping for sweaters right before Christmas: the longer you wait,… Read More »
A version of this article originally appeared in TechTarget SearchCloudApplications as Managing application deployments in a multiple-cloud enterprise Any conversation about cloud services usually begins with AWS, but for most organizations, it won’t end there. Whether to fight vendor lock-in, increase the diversity of available services, arbitrage price disparities or maintain control over particularly sensitive information an increasing number… Read More »
A version of this article appeared on TechTarget SearchAWS as Achieving AWS automation with Chef The transition of corporate infrastructure into software defined private clouds has transformed IT automation from an aspirational goal into an existential imperative. The move from treating servers, storage and network gear as individual units that are carefully managed into interchangeable resources — the familiar… Read More »
A version of this article originally appeared on TechTarget Search AWS as AWS Cognito makes a mark in mobile app development A major challenge when developing applications in the post-PC era, where the average person uses three devices and expects to access and have a consistent view of their data from each one of them, is the difficulty of… Read More »
Portions of this article appeared in the Tech Target SearchAWS E-HandBook: Your Role in AWS Security. AWS security is built upon a powerful identity and access management service (IAM) with a rich set of features befitting of an enterprise platform. Yet the IAM management console, nestled within an overflowing AWS service dashboard, is deceptively simple, belying the complexity… Read More »
A previous version of this article appeared on TechTarget SearchAWS as Police your public cloud with AWS CloudTrail CloudTrail is a powerful tool for monitoring and auditing AWS deployments, but as a relatively new service, introduced in late 2013, many AWS users may not be aware of its capabilities and potential. As we summarized in this article on AWS… Read More »
A version of this article appeared on SearchAWS as “AWS logging tools provide extra security“ Cloud denialism is on the wane, but the most persistent excuses enterprises give for avoiding public cloud services remain a loss of control, security and visibility. These issues have been amply addressed and debunked, both by the cloud services themselves and independent analysts,… Read More »