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Amazon is Working to Secure its Xen-Based Infrastructure Cloud

Posted by brennels on June 12, 2009

by Alessandro Perilli   |   Thursday, June 11, 2009   |   0 Comments

It doesn’t matter if we are talking about SaaS, PaaS or IaaS architectures. Customers have many reasons to not trust the cloud computing solutions that the market offers today and one of them is the lack of security.

Amazon has the oldest, most popular and very likely the largest cloud infrastructure existing today, and thus it must under continuous fire when enterprise customers evaluate its Xen-based Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).

The company 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:

Read the rest of the article on virtualization.info

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