Technical Challenges for Large Enterprises using AWS
Large enterprises must exercise caution and make informed decisions prior to planning retirement of Data centers and hosting completely out of Public Cloud providers.Though Cloud offers numerous well-known benefits, it also exposes vulnerabilities within existing systems and requires significant investment to keep up the automation and operations. For example, centralized functions of a large enterprise (Splunk Administration) calls for immediate decentralization and would need training and duplication of the setup across accounts/vpcs. Similarly services that existed without authentication within a hardened data center, must now implement authentication and in turn have its numerous clients update the authentication scheme. Though AWS offers a very clean solution for a number of use cases, it is just not there yet as a full blown enterprise wide solution. AWS Platform needs significant design iterations to meet the complex needs of an enterprise. In this post, I want to call out ...