The popularity of utilizing cloud technology to host company applications and store company data has been drastically growing. Many enterprises have migrated their on-premise workloads and storage to the cloud, and many new companies decide to start in the cloud. In fact, Cisco has estimated that 94% of workloads in 2021 will be processed on some sort of cloud data center.
As recently as just a few years ago, business leaders worried about the unknown factors of moving their core applications to the cloud. Factors like not knowing how a particular application might work in the cloud were deterrents to what would have been optimal cloud migration, according to Tech Target. With new attention to performance metrics and understanding how their applications will scale with cloud services, organizations are finding cloud computing companies more attractive all the time.
By now everyone has heard of the cloud and how it is revolutionizing the computer industry. Most companies are either in the process of migrating to the cloud or planning a cloud migration. The public cloud allows companies, big and small, to host their applications in virtual servers at a lower cost than a traditional data center. According to the 2017 RightScale State of the Cloud Report the top reason companies are interested in the cloud is cost savings.
On July 17 Virginia-based bank Capital One received an email tip that their data had been leaked on code-hosting site Github. An initial investigation found that the data originated from a Capital One server hosted in the cloud that was accessed via a misconfigured firewall.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dominant force in the realm of cloud networks, surpasses its competitors with its mature and advanced platform. Their current offering ranks high in reliability, with a competitive track record relative to cloud-market peers, Azure and Google Public Cloud. AWS is not only the oldest of the three but also the largest in terms of scale, with their platform currently offering 200+ services and growing.
