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

Crafty CTO

Why invest precious time on such a limited solution? Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs.

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

Tom Tunguz

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. 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.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

Providers that fall in the lower end of the SaaS spectrum might not be able to keep up with the growing needs of the cloud computing market and eventually shut down. This points to another serious issue i.e. data portability as all the time and money a business invests in a SaaS provider might go to waste. VPC and VPN.