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Is SaaS Dead?

The emergence of hyper-scale Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is challenging the traditional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) value proposition. SaaS CEOs, investors and SaaS buyers must carefully evaluate

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AWS Canada Region is Live with 36 Services

The AWS Canada Region is now live. Public sector, government and enterprises that must adhere to Canada data residency rules, can now host their application and data in the new AWS Canada Region. The Region is hosted in Montreal and has two Availability Zones

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Navigating the Complex Enterprise Compliance World—With the Help of stackArmor

Guest post by stackArmor Customer App47 Last year, the App47 team was faced with a daunting task unlike any we’d come across before: meeting the compliance needs of a Fortune 500 company in the highly regulated healthcare industry. We needed to do it quickly, too. We were in the process of navigating a large bid for a project, and our ability to move forwarded depended on meeting the complex security and compliance needs of this company. Meeting security and compliance requirements is no easy task, even at a company with a full-time CISSO and compliance team. As a startup, we don’t have the luxury of having a team like that on board. Of course, that didn’t change the fact that there were mounds of paperwork to read—chock-full of dense language that can be hard to understand—and real compliance needs to be met before we had the chance to move forward

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New Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Region goes live

AWS announced the availability of the Mumbai Region for Indian customers to deliver cutting cloud-based enterprise services. The new Mumbai region has two Availability Zones for architecting fault-tolerant and high-availability solutions. Most of the major and popular AWS EC2 services are available immediately including C4,M4, T2, D2, I2, and R3 instances and related services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Auto Scaling, and  Elastic Load Balancing. The following enterprise services are part of this initial release: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) AWS CloudFormation Amazon CloudFront AWS CloudTrail Amazon CloudWatch AWS CodeDeploy AWS Config AWS Direct Connect Amazon DynamoDB AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon EMR Amazon Glacier AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Import/Export Snowball AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Amazon Kinesis AWS Marketplace AWS OpsWorks Amazon Redshift Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – all database engines including Amazon Aurora Amazon Route 53

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