RIFM: AWS Key Management Service Best Practices

Whitepaper (Amazon) Whitepaper (Backup) TL;DR AWS KMS makes securing your information easy(ier) by abstracting the availability, physical security, and maintenance concerns of cryptographic implementations. Thanks to a first class integration in AWS you can benefit from tight integrations with the rest of the services they provide, all while providing exceptional logging to help meet compliance… Continue reading RIFM: AWS Key Management Service Best Practices

RIFM: Best Practices Design Patterns: Optimizing Amazon S3 Performance

Whitepaper (Amazon) Whitepaper (Backup) TL;DR If you walk away with anything, it should be this: Amazon S3 can handle whatever you throw at it, as long as you follow the rules. It can be as fast as you need (3,500 PUT/COPY/POST/DELETE and 5,500 GET/HEAD requests/second/prefix), scales horizontally seamlessly across a wide pool of IP addresses… Continue reading RIFM: Best Practices Design Patterns: Optimizing Amazon S3 Performance