![]() Our core competency is creating security technology and AWS helps us focus on that.” These are benefits we can pass on to our customers. Donaldson says, “With AWS, we have no upfront costs we benefit from having predictable operational expenditure. Security is a world that changes rapidly, so the flexibility of AWS is a really good match for how we operate.” This applies not only to the provisioning of services, but also to the AWS pricing model. ![]() But this was a time-consuming and expensive business. “Previously,” continues Shaun Donaldson, Director of Alliances at Bitdefender, “we had solutions hosted in physical data centers by multiple operators across regions. There’s no question that it’s part of our ability to innovate.” To have this ability with near-zero waiting time-accelerating IT provisioning-is extremely valuable from a commercial perspective. As we speak, we can launch new servers to test specific functionality that we want to pass on to customers. It provides an unlimited workspace for the team. ![]() “Any member of the team can use AWS to start a new instance in seconds, and they have the freedom to test and explore with multiple servers and architectures. “AWS is like an extension of our desktop,” says Tigau. “AWS Support has given us fast responses when we’ve needed them,” he says.īy using AWS, Bitdefender has more tools to innovate. Tigau also uses AWS Support, which he says has been instrumental in solving many technical challenges the firm has encountered. Amazon CloudWatch provides the tools to closely monitor the assets that sit within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). “To achieve security as we do, continuous delivery is essential, regardless of where customers are, so the multiple regions and Availability Zones that AWS provides are very valuable.”ĪWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) enables Bitdefender to control user access to AWS, allowing permissions to be set for multiple accounts. “We have customers everywhere in the world,” says Tigau. Elastic Load Balancing instances are used to route application traffic across multiple Availability Zones for seamless global delivery of services. We saw that we’d have these things by using AWS.”īitdefender uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), currently running a few hundred instances that handle about five terabytes of data. It was also important that we had an infrastructure that could auto scale. “We needed to be agile because we knew that when working with millions of endpoints the requirements vary widely, even from minute to minute. “We launched GravityZone with AWS because it was the obvious choice for us at the time-both for its portfolio and global reach,” says Tigau. With a global customer base to consider, the firm also needed a cloud service that would be highly available to seamlessly deliver security services worldwide. We didn’t want to spend time managing a physical infrastructure, so we looked to the cloud to enable the agility we were looking for.”ĭenisa Dragomir, Product Manager at Bitdefender, continues, “We were keen to reduce manual processes and increase automation to provide the fast scalability that both Bitdefender and our customers require.” “To design a market-leading security product, our developers need to be free to test out new ideas. “The idea is to allow our team to explore,” says Mugur Tigau, Technical Project Manager at Bitdefender. So when it looked to deliver its enterprise product GravityZone in 2011, it wanted to move away from the constraints of physical hardware to enable its team to focus on innovation. Keeping up with the pace of change in the fast-moving online security market is something Bitdefender knows all about.
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