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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

But with cloud computing spend, it’s concentrated typically with one primary vendor. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 Like I said, we run 100% of our platform on AWS, so the fit was great.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones. See more about all 3 M’s in these two companion blog posts Part 1: User Model and Part 3: Measurement.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). Cloud is more expensive for larger enterprises.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

The three security layers that help prevent unauthorized access and safeguard valuable data include: Layer 0 aka IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is the primary layer on which everything else runs e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. VPC and VPN.