Amazon Web Services EC2 – Part 3: Security and Security Groups
March 4th, 2009
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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Security and Security Groups
Security is one of the most important, if not the most important, aspects of any important application. If you are thinking about running any kind of a mission critical application in the cloud, security should be a large part of your research.
AWS has been independently certified as Sarbanes-Oxley compliant and has passed a SAS70 audit. Amazon’s physical data center security follows established norms and is routinely audited.
On the software side, Amazon maintains a separation between host operating systems (those that Amazon are responsible for) and guest operating systems (the AMIs).
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