AWS New Cloud Services – Web Events Planner for 2017
AWS announced a large set of new services and features covering DevOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Management and Operations Support Services. The team at stackArmor is available to support your efforts in learning more
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
AWS re:Invent 2016: stackArmor After-party Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2016 just concluded last week with loads of cloud goodies rolling out everyday. The cloud innovation experts at stackArmor have been busy helping customers begin the fun work of driving continuous innovation
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 […]
Jumpstart dashboard project with Tableau Dashboard-As-A-Service on AWS
More and more organizations are drowning in data and spending too much time creating and sharing Excel spreadsheets. Is this you? The cloud automation and data analytics experts at stackArmor have developed a powerful “Turbo-tax” like wizard to rapidly select, price and deploy data analytics and visualization software such as Tableau. Tableau is a market […]
Cloud Security Best Practices and Common Errors – stackArmor White Paper
Migrating to a cloud platform is a business necessity mandated by the need to be agile and deliver digital services in a hyper-competitive environment. However, it is critical to ensure that security issues are given due consideration. Gartner estimates that by 2020, 95% of cloud breaches will not be caused by vulnerabilities at the cloud […]
A Chat About SaaS Security and AWS Security Best Practices at AWS Boston MA Meetup
This is a guest post by Gaurav “GP” Pal, CEO at stackArmor I recently had an opportunity to present at the Boston AWS Boston Meetup on a topic that’s been in my sights for a while now – “State of SaaS Security, Common mistakes and AWS Security Best Practices”. The entire presentation is up at […]
TIC Connectivity and FedRAMP High – Is Cloud Nirvana near?
GSA’s FedRAMP PMO has been continually evolving the compliance framework for driving the wider adoption of commercial cloud services. Last year, they released for public comment the TIC Overlay initiative as well as the FedRAMP High baseline. Both of these are critical to enhanced cloud adoption and helping Federal customers solve some of the critical […]
Magento on AWS for Scalable eCommerce
Magento ecommerce, the number one ecommerce CMS in the world helps its users grow their online business in a great way through its powerful features. Magento 1 has been the leading ecommerce CMS and Magento 2 is the future of the electronic commerce world. 26% of the top million ecommerce sites are powered by Magento. […]
AWS Price Drops for C4, M4 and R3 Instances
Amazon announced their 51st price drop of 5% for On-Demand and Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for C4 and M4 instances running Linux in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo),Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. The price drops include On-Demand, […]
Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention and Web Application Firewalls
As more and more businesses are hosted online and increasingly on cloud platforms such as AWS, it is critical to ensure robust cybersecurity defenses are in place. Typically, the security architecture for most web facing applications begins with boundary protection using a firewall. There are a number of security sub-systems such as Intrusion Detection Systems […]
Secure and Scalable Magento Hosting with AWS EC2 and Aurora
Magento is an open source cloud based digital commerce platform that empowers merchants to integrate digital and physical shopping experiences. Magento enterprise edition provides an engaging shopping experience to the users by providing personalized content, fast checkout and a seamless shopper experience. However, in order to ensure the integrity of the user experience and sensitive […]
