Six best practices for increasing AWS security in a Zero Trust world

AWS revenue achieved an impressive 46% year-over-year net sales growth between Q3, 2017 and Q3, 2018 and 49% year-over-year growth for the first three quarters of the year. AWS’ 34% market share is bigger than its next four competitors combined with the majority of customers taken from small-to medium sized cloud operators according to Synergy Research The many announcements made at AWS Re:Invent this year reflect a growing focus on hybrid cloud computing, security, and compliance. Enterprises are rapidly accelerating the pace at which they’re moving workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for greater cost, scale and speed advantages. And while AWS leads all others as the enterprise public cloud platform of choice, they and all Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers rely on a shared responsibility model where customers are responsible for securing operating systems, platforms and data.