How to Truly Control Your Data in the AWS Cloud?

TL;DR: when using AWS cloud, don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Use AWS XKS to store and manage your encryption keys outside AWS.

According to Gartner, global spending on public cloud services will increase by 20.4%, reaching a total of $678.8 billion in 2024. This underlines a significant shift towards digital transformation.

Organisations leveraging cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) often find themselves in a predicament concerning data control, security, and legal compliance. These challenges arise because the data, while physically stored in secure AWS data centres, is under the operational control of AWS, which potentially affect the organisation’s ability to fully enforce their own security policies and compliance measures.

The recent massive Snowflake breach highlighted the risks of relying solely on cloud provider ecosystems for security and compliance.

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