Forcing functions

Interesting article on forcing functions


 Through Forbes


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While AWS made progress because of this forcing function, it is reasonable to ask: Was there a better forcing function? Recent moves by IBM and enterprise-class cloud firm Virtustream shows that Bezos may have made the wrong choice in forcing functions if he were seeking the largest market possible for AWS, not just increased operational efficiency for Amazon.com.
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SaaS, Cloud, Cloud Security and things around it

Been working on AWS, Cloud, Cloud Security and looking at various methods of securing the cloud and also do capacity estimations for the infrastructure challenges and the like.

A few brilliant sites:

a. CSO online has great material on good options for securing the cloud. here
b. OpenVPN Access Server seems like a good to use VPN if one wants a VPN connection to protect the machines from the internet. [They have an AMi that is optimized for AWS too! Yay!]
c. Cipher cloud, Porticor etc seem to do a decent bit as far as tokenizing data and encrypting them is concerned.

I am looking at Veeva, Ravello and such too. [I remember that AWS provided one more solution for inter-subnet data transfer at cheap rates w/o passing the internet. Is it Vyatta? ?Need to check.

What is being used otherwise? Tips and tricks should always help!