Breaking the Cloud Security Barrier with Amazon Web Services

The cloud market is moving forward as reflected in both the evolving perspectives voiced by IT decision-makers and by the business success of cloud service providers.

Stratecast’s recurring annual surveys reveal that public cloud adoption has now reached a much-awaited tipping point with 50% of the 2014 survey respondents stating that they currently use public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and another 30% stating they will too within the next 24 months.2 On cloud service providers, the business results of Amazon Web Services (AWS), now in its eighth year and still rapidly growing, make a similar statement.

Included in this Frost & Sullivan report:

• AWS self-perpetuating growth and innovation model
  
• The cloud security adoption barrier
• Shared security responsibility model