451 conducted six in depth interviews with Big Data users whose primary deployment is cloud based. These users were sourced from customer lists provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). 451 Research analyzed the results of these interviews and, combined with our ongoing customer and market analysis, created this report.

The AWS Cloud Transformation Maturity Model (CTMM) maps the maturity of an IT organization’s process, people, and technology capabilities as they move through the four stages of the journey to the AWS Cloud: project, foundation, migration, and optimization. The objective of the CTMM is to help enterprise IT organizations understand the significant challenges they might face to adopt AWS, learn […]

Zappos has a culture of innovation and being agile, things change all the time. AWS allows for better agility and flexibilty when it comes to planning, not a lot of upfront planning has to be done. If you get it wrong, its okay you have to resize and you will be on your way.

Today’s healthcare providers are dealing with a digital data tsunami. Increasing electronic health record (EHR) adoption, the proliferation of connected healthcare devices and advances in imaging technology are increasing the volume of digital imaging data. With the increase in the volume and diversity of healthcare data, healthcare organizations are struggling to capture, curate, analyze, secure and archive all the data […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a scalable cloud computing platform designed for high availability and dependability, providing the tools that enable you to run a wide range of applications. Helping to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your systems and data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining your trust and confidence. This document is intended […]

This paper is intended for customers who want to improve resiliency of their applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The paper provides an overview of DDoS attacks, capabilities provided by AWS, mitigation techniques, and a DDoS-resilient reference architecture that can be used as a guide to help protect application availability.

Security checklist to protect your root account.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, providing the tools that enable customers to run a wide range of applications. Helping to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ systems and data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining customer trust and confidence. This document is intended […]