Amazon AWS continues to focus on the cloud only approach, focusing on security

Amazon has effectively developed the very notion of the public cloud, as we understand it today. When the first iteration of AWS came to light in 2002, it would have been hard to predict that Amazon could become the world leader in the public cloud with a turnover of $31 billion, annualized from the first quarter of 2019, up 41 percent from 12 months earlier. Today, AWS is present throughout the globe with a highly evolved infrastructure that thousands of businesses use. To get an idea of how complicated and articulated AWS ' worldwide infrastructure is, visit the website www.infrastructure.aws, which provides both an overview and information of each AWS "world" region, is worthwhile.

Last but not least, Italy is already noticeable on AWS with the Milan Region, although not yet active. Having an Italian region is a very favorable signal and testifies to the increasing use of cloud in Italy despite the era of crisis our nation is going through and businesses are investing in technology.

In order to verify that the Milan region will be active at the start of 2020, it was Danilo Poccia, Serverless Principal Evangelist of AWS, at a conference devoted to the media held at AWS ' Milan headquarters. Daniele Poccia revealed the testimonies of three Italian businesses based on the AWS cloud: Satispay, Fattureincloud.it and Centro Medico Santagostino for all their infrastructure.

For a business that provides financial services like Satispay, the location where the information is stored is a basic component, as well as complying with a sequence of norms that are compulsory for financial providers by legislation. AWS ensures compliance by the client with a whole sequence of norms including the PCI, which is crucial for the economic industry. In addition, by selecting a region, AWS guarantees that information and apps are available only on the region's servers. It's not a little detail, because if the cloud is an abstract concept, in particular data centers there are always physical servers behind it. It is a basic guarantee for the large majority of businesses to be able to select the region and have the assurance that information and apps will be physically present on the servers of that region alone. Satispay and many other businesses will be offering fresh possibilities for the opening of the Milan Region, both for the regulatory aspect and for the highest results that can be achieved by having three Availability Zones straight in Italy. An Availability Zone consists of a sequence of regional information centers that ensure maximum "availability" and scalability.

In addition to reaffirming the commitment on the Italian territory, the meeting with Danilo Poccia was an chance to reiterate how security is at the core of the entire AWS policy. Safety implies first and foremost visibility, control and automation for Amazon. Before examining the instruments that the AWS platform makes accessible to system administrators to handle infrastructure security, having information and apps on AWS enables all resources to be fully and immediately visible, this aspect underlines the philosophy with which the AWS platform is constructed. We have already noted another aspect relating to safety, namely the fact that AWS has acquired a lengthy sequence of certifications that would be very difficult for a business to acquire, particularly tiny or medium-sized ones, if it were to build an infrastructure on premises. This element also concerns GDPRin Europe's recent developments, which AWS obviously supports. Specific instruments for system administrators range from data protection and infrastructure authentication management to activity assessment and anomaly management services. The Amazon GuardDuty service is interesting on the automation front, which can detect anomalies and possible assaults on the facilities in actual time using automatic learning systems and produce automated responses. Like all AWS facilities, the price is related to real use for GuardDuty and can thus be managed flexibly to suit particular company requirements.

Amazon is increasingly confident of its "cloud-only" vision for AWS, partially against the trend compared to the proliferation of hybrid architectures combining on-site resources in the cloud. One thing is certain, the public cloud is and always will be a cornerstone of any cloud strategy, and in many contexts the AWS platform remains the first choice. There will be even more reasons to choose Amazon's solution with the opening of the region in Milan in 2020.