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How desktop-as-a-service makes complex IT architecture simple

The workplace is becoming increasingly dynamic and digital, because companies need employees who are flexible can work from anywhere, and can execute work tasks from any machine they have their hands on. That means physical desktops and laptops have become, essentially, obsolete in their old form, and companies have started to realize the benefits of embracing virtual and cloud computing.… Read more

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ITAR: AWS IAM Best Practices

Lock Away Your AWS Account Root User Access Keys You use an access key (an access key ID and secret access key) to make programmatic requests to AWS. However, do not use your AWS account root user access key. The access key for your AWS account root user gives full access to all your resources for all AWS services, including your billing information.… Read more

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Will Capital One’s 106M Name Data Breach Cut Into AWS’s Growth?

Should you own Amazon stock? It would certainly be a better investment if its most profitable business, AWS, was growing faster. And the odds of that happening would be better if the industry in which it competes — cloud services — was accelerating. But news that Capital One — a proud AWS customer whose stock plunged over 5% in premarket trade on July 30 — suffered a 106 million customer data breach makes me think it’s possible that AWS’s growth might slow down even more (AWS grew over 40% in previous quarters and slowed to 37% in the latest quarter) and give pause to companies in the middle of moving their IT operations to the cloud.… Read more

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Amazon’s cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn’t seem to be at fault

On Monday evening, federal prosecutors said a tech worker named Paige A. Thompson had been charged with computer fraud and abuse on allegations that she stole data from millions of Capital One customers. In the complaint, we get some technical details about how investigators say it went down: A “firewall misconfiguration” left one of Capital One’s cloud servers vulnerable, allowing Thompson to send commands that let her access the sensitive data in question.… Read more