There’s good news if you’re considering storing sensitive data on virtual servers in Amazon’s cloud. Amazon recently announced that their S3 storage service now offers server side encryption, making integration with your applications and servers much easier. Best of all, it’s free. Well, “free” assuming you’re already paying for virtual servers at Amazon.
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