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Hannah Grace Holladay / December 16, 2022
Cloud platforms are popular, but they aren’t yet ubiquitous. Six out of ten businesses have conducted a cloud migration, but that implies four out of ten haven’t. If your business hasn’t made the leap to cloud infrastructure, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. In this article, we explore five reasons you may want to reconsider moving some of your workloads to cloud platform like AWS or…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / April 12, 2023
Businesses have many infrastructure hosting solutions to choose from, from physical servers hosted in owned data centers, to colocated servers in managed data centers, to many different cloud platforms. However, in 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by far the largest infrastructure hosting platform in the world. Businesses choose AWS because it offers a diverse array of cloud services backed by the technical expertise of one of the most valuable…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / April 12, 2023
AWS provides dozens of cloud services ranging from storage and compute to machine learning and security services. AWS is by far the biggest cloud platform, and thousands of businesses entrust it with their most sensitive data and critical workloads. Ensuring only authorized users can access these assets is the job of AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM). As you might imagine, improper use of AWS IAM can create serious…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / February 13, 2023
AWS Vulnerabilities Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the enterprise cloud landscape. Around two-thirds of business cloud users host infrastructure on AWS. That includes many of the biggest companies in the world and small and medium businesses in the tens of thousands. AWS’s popularity makes it a tempting target for cybercriminals: AWS vulnerabilities could let them steal data from thousands of businesses. Amazon regularly finds and fixes vulnerabilities in the platform’s…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / June 14, 2023
The global information technology industry is worth around $5 trillion. To put that in perspective, the global oil and gas market is worth $5.8 trillion. IT is an enormous industry because every business depends on IT infrastructure. That makes infrastructure security a priority for organizations, from sole proprietorships to multinational corporations and governments. As a business owner or executive, you are responsible for creating and managing a secure infrastructure platform.…
