Amazon is opening up its cloud for the enterprise market enabling firms to back up data in its cloud storage facilities - the product on offer is called AWS Storage Gateway.
Amazon described the service as being for “in the event you need replacement capacity for disaster recovery purposes, or if you want to leverage Amazon EC2's on-demand compute capacity for additional capacity during peak periods, for new projects.”
It also reduces cost when running a normal workload by mirroring your on-premises data to Amazon EC2 instances.
Of course the issue of security is always present when it comes to storing data in the cloud – maybe even more so for enterprises. Amazon has been eager to make their security measures clear.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol, which protects the data in transit as the shift to the cloud takes place.
The data is then stored in Amazon’s cloud using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 (a secure symmetric-key encryption standard), and the data is made less susceptible to a datacentre failure by using multiple locations for storage.
“Amazon S3 is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities, redundantly storing your data on multiple devices across multiple facilities in a region," said the firm.
Enterprises can trial the AWS Storage Gateway for 60 days for free - £79.70 per month thereafter, though volume of data may attract additional fees. As a way of backing up point-in-time snapshots of on-premises application data, in preparation for future recovery, Amazon’s cloud seems like a good idea.
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