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12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure

Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.

But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.

Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:

Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.

Never achieving a proactive approach.

Overpaying for cloud services.

In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.

10 Best Practices For Reducing Spend In AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.

In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.

In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.

Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy

This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.

Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy

This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.

Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy

This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.

Use the Data Security Governance Framework to Balance Business Needs and Risks

Considered a data security gold standard, Gartner's Data Security Governance Framework recommends that data governance, compliance, and security be effectively unified.

Read this report to dive into best practices and steps you can take to help your organization achieve a comprehensive data security posture.

The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Security Guardium Oct 2020

IBM commissioned Forrester Research consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM Security Guardium. The study uncovered that organizations achieve cost and risk reductions while increasing productivity and tactical efficiencies from implementing IBM Security Guardium. Read the study to learn more.

Read the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to learn how to:

Achieve cost and risk reductions

Increase productivity and tactical efficiencies

Evaluate the potential return on investment

The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation

Are you prepared to defend against new security and privacy threats? From data breaches to privacy violations, to unwarranted workplace surveillance, the implications of weak data security and privacy policies are escalating.

Read Forrester's latest review to understand the challenges and get advice on how to prepare for what’s ahead.

Smarter data security with IBM Security Guardium

Businesses are embracing hybrid multicloud-based deployment models in order to gain agility and drive their organizations forward. But such a deployment can increase the attack surface, potentially resulting in a host of new data security and compliance challenges.

Learn how IBM Security Guardium—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls—can help you take a smarter, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments.

Overcoming data security challenges in a hybrid multicloud world

Organizations are rapidly moving to the cloud, leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as-a-service (PaaS), and Database as-a-service as new ways to optimize their business, even though these environments present new risks to sensitive data.

Data security solutions must be able to operate across multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid).

Read this ebook to learn more about how to secure sensitive data across a variety of environments, and how the IBM Data Security portfolio can help.

Interactive Demo of IBM Security Guardium Insights

Are you planning to implement a data security solution that monitors activity in on-premises and DBaaS sources? See how Guardium Insights for Cloud Pak for Security can enhance visibility, cut response time, surface key risk insights to uncover hidden threats—and deploy it anywhere.

Interactive Demo of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection

Is your company planning a Data Security solution purchase to meet the needs of protecting growing number of data sources and cloud-based technologies? See how IBM Security Guardium Data Protection can help protect your data at the source to and address data risk and compliance requirements across the hybrid cloud.

Gartner: Beyond GDPR: Five Technologies to Borrow From Security to Operationalize Privacy

Having to operationalize privacy caught many organizations unprepared. Thus, Gartner experienced a tremendous spike in client inquiry regarding GDPR preparations, with a 400% increase over the previous year.

In preparing for various privacy regulations, security and risk management leaders should review this report to review a set of balanced controls for privacy and security in the implementation of five key technologies.

Five Common Data Security Pitfalls

Is your data security practice all that it should be? This ebook looks at five of the most prevalent and avoidable data security missteps organizations are making today, and how these "common pitfalls" can result in potentially disastrous attacks.

Encryption: Protect your most critical data

With ransomware attacks and data breaches on the rise, it is critical that today’s business leaders take action to ensure that their most critical data is protected. Data encryption should be the first and last line of defense—encoding your sensitive data and rendering it unusable in the event of a data breach.

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption and IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager can help protect your data no matter where it resides, on-premises and across cloud environments, in applications, containers and Teradata environments. Our best-in-class solutions allow you to encrypt and tokenize your data; create, rotate and manage all of your encryption keys; and manage user access policies.