Tag: AWS

AWS sets higher standard for MSSP partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is raising the bar for managed security services providers (MSSPs) by adding a range of specialized certification requirements. An update to the AWS MSSP Competency program introduces specific categories, including infrastructure security, workload security, application security,...

How MSPs can thrive in the era of data sovereignty
Since the cloud became a major platform for organizations, the issue of where and how data is stored and managed has become increasingly complex. Even small companies must navigate various legal regulations worldwide. For instance, laws like the EU’s GDPR...

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: AWS default IAM roles risks
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical vulnerabilities arising from default Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Service setups often create these roles automatically or recommend them, granting excessive permissions that expose environments to privilege escalation and...

Cloud optimization continues to be an MSP opportunity
A new report finds more than half of the organizations on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud do not use cloud optimization tools such as Saving Plans or Reserved Instances. ProsperOps, a cloud cost optimization provider, conducted an analysis of AWS...

Report reveals cloud optimization opportunity for MSPs
Despite rising concerns about the cost of cloud computing, a new report finds more than half of organizations do not make use of Saving Plans or Reserved Instances. These plans, available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, make it...

AWS adds raft of security competencies for MSP partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has raised the cloud security bar for managed service providers (MSPs). At the AWS re:Inforce conference, the leading provider of cloud services added six AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency Specialization Categories spanning identity behavior monitoring; data...

Alternate cloud service providers are on the rise
A much larger percentage of IT organizations appear to be less committed to the top three cloud service providers as it becomes more apparent that the compute and storage platforms being delivered have become commodities. A survey of 458 development...

AWS Channel Chief sees evolving relationships with MSPs
If a three week online AWS re:Invent conference leaves managed service provider (MSPs) with any impression at all, it’s that the relationship with the world’s largest provider of cloud services is continually evolving. In the last week and half alone,...

New AWS services optimize application development process
Amazon Web Services (AWS) consistently introduces new services, enhances existing ones, and drives trends that all contain technology, capabilities, and information of great relevance to MSPs. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced a significant number of developments that...

Cloud skills gap widens as demand for expertise skyrockets
A State of Cloud Learning report published by A Cloud Guru, a provider of training services, suggests the rate at which organizations want to move application workloads to the cloud is exceeding the abilities of their internal IT teams. More...