Working with Cloud-based Applications

Cloud-based applications are products or services for storing data on the cloud. In cloud-based applications, the computing and processing of data is handled on the cloud. Local applications interact with the cloud services for various purposes, such as, data storage, data computing, and so on. Cloud-based applications are allocated resources dynamically and aim at reducing infrastructure cost, improving network performance, easing information access, and scaling of resources.

AWS offers a variety of cloud-based products for computing, storage, analytics, networking, and management. Using the Cloud Utility product, services such as, CloudWatch and AWS CLI are leveraged by the Protegrity appliances.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are essential for AWS Cloud Utility.

  • The Cloud Utility AWS v2.3.0 product must be installed.

    From 8.0.0.0, if an instance is created on the AWS using the cloud image, then Cloud Utility AWS is preinstalled on this instance.

    For more information about installing the Cloud Utility AWS v2.3.0, refer to the Protegrity Installation Guide 10.0.0.

  • If you are launching a Protegrity appliance on an AWS EC2 instance, then you must have a valid IAM Role.

    For more information about IAM Role, refer to Configuring Access for AWS Resources.

  • If you are launching a Protegrity appliance on a non-AWS instance, such as on-premise, Microsoft Azure, or GCP instance, then the AWS Configure option must be set up.

    For more information about configuring AWS credentials, refer to AWS Configure.

  • The user accessing the Cloud Utility AWS Tools must have AWS Admin permission assigned to the role.

    For more information about AWS admin, refer to Managing Roles.