IAM Best Practices
To help secure your AWS resources, follow these recommendations for the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service.Related Articles:http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/b ...
Best Practices for Amazon EC2
This checklist is intended to help you get the maximum benefit from and satisfaction with Amazon EC2.Related Articles:http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-best-pr ...
Best Practices for Amazon RDS
This section summarizes best practices for working with Amazon RDS. As new best practices are identified, we will keep this section up to date.Related Articles:http://docs.aws.a ...
AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Load Balancer Best Practices
You are probably aware that Amazon Web Services provides Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) as their preferred load balancing solution on the AWS platform. ELB distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Considering the costs involved, and the ...
10 Best Practices for Secure Software Development
Security attacks are moving from today's well-protected IT network infrastructure to the software that everyone uses - increasing the attack surface to any company, organisation or individual. Paradoxically, productivity-enhancing software that is embraced often invariably houses large amo ...
Security in Web Services
Security is an important feature in any web application. Since almost all web applications are exposed to the internet, there is always a chance of a security threat to web applications. Hence, when developing web-based applications, it is always recommended to ensure that application is d ...
What is Security Testing: Complete Tutorial
Security Testing is a variant of Software Testing which ensures, that system and applications in an organization, are free from any loopholes that may cause a big loss. Security testing of any system is about finding all possible loopholes and weaknesses of the system which might result in ...
6 Lessons From Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 Minutes
Dropbox saves one million files every 15 minutes, more tweets than even Twitterers tweet. That mind blowing statistic was revealed by Rian Hunter, a Dropbox Engineer, in his presentation How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped at PyCon 2011.The first part of the presentation is some ...
The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars
It's been a well kept secret, but you may have heard Facebook will Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion. Just what is Facebook buying? Here's a quick gloss I did a little over a year ago on a presentation Instagram gave on their architecture. In that article I called Instagra ...
Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
Trust, or the lack thereof, is the number one factor blocking the adoption of software as a service (SaaS). A case could be made that data is the most important asset of any business—data about products, customers, employees, suppliers, and more. And data, of course, is at the heart of S ...