by VAST | Apr 16, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Security
Looking for the source of security problems in the cloud? Don’t point fingers at the cloud provider. Security in the cloud is a shared responsibility, with both the cloud provider and the business user contributing to the security effort. Amazon Web Services provides...
by Michael Boehl | Apr 6, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon recently launched S3 Object Lambda enabling users to add code to data retrieved from S3 storage. This allows the data to be processed before it reaches the application that called it, enabling use cases such as personally identifiable information (PII) masking,...
by VAST | Feb 2, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud
Cloud is pay per use, so if you don’t use much, you won’t pay much. That’s the theory, anyway. In reality, cloud costs can quickly mount up. Take a look at how usage is charged for AWS storage and it’s clear why there’s no such thing as just a little cloud usage. S3...
by Michael Boehl | Feb 2, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Lightsail is by far the easiest way to get started on AWS. It allows you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of minutes. AWS has now added the capability of deploying container-based workloads on Amazon Lightsail. Container...
by Michael Boehl | Jan 4, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes. On December 1st, 2020 AWS announced availability, in preview, of io2 Block Express volumes that are designed to deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, while...
by VAST | Dec 17, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
Software delivery used to be a balance between cost, time, and scope. Cloud has blown up a lot of the old IT paradigms, including the tradeoff among those characteristics. With the tools in Amazon Web Services (AWS), developers can rapidly deliver quality code, and...
