Cloud

Whenever I talk cloud with a customer, there is inevitably a discussion around how much the cloud costs vs what is in the data center. The conversation usually starts with one of several declarations. “The Cloud is more expensive than on-premises but we want the capabilities anyway.” “We need the Cloud so we can drive down our costs.” Well yes, if you’ve paid attention, those are two different arguments about why you need cloud, and both of them came to different conclusions about whether or not the public cloud is more expensive or less expensive than running your own data center. ...

A primary concern for companies moving to the cloud is whether or not their workloads will remain secure. While that debate still happens, AWS has made great strides to assuage customer’s concerns by adding services to ensure workloads are well protected. At re:Invent 2018 another service named AWS Security Hub was added. Security Hub allows you to setup some basic security guardrails and get compliance information for multiple accounts within a single service. Amazon seems to have realized that enabling customers to very easily see their security recommendations for all environments in a single place has great value to their businesses. ...