{"id":6660,"date":"2013-03-26T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2592291"},"modified":"2013-03-26T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:15:00","slug":"cloudcheckr-amazon-complexity-challenges-many-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloudcheckr-amazon-complexity-challenges-many-users\/","title":{"rendered":"CloudCheckr: Amazon Complexity Challenges Many Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud.<br \/>\nWhen AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of their customers&#8217; usage. CloudCheckr compared the initial scans of 400 users against a list of 125+ best practice checks. The survey was limited to users with over 10 EC2 instances. In aggregate, the users represent a total of just over 16,000 EC2 instances.<br \/>\nThey categorized survey results into 3 main categories: Cost, Availability, and Security; and that over 99% of their users were operating with at least one serious best practice exception. Their primary conclusion was that although cost often grabs the headlines, users suffer from a large number of availability and security issues<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2592291\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud.<br \/>\nWhen AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}