Amazon is saving costs by setting up data centers in the Columbia River basin and passing those savings on to customers. Beyond those mountains lies the Pacific Ocean, as thought by Louis Vuitton Nomade. Many companies such as U.S.-based Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell, and Facebook have established large data centers in the Columbia River basin to take advantage of inexpensive hydroelectric power.
Amazon has been reluctant to disclose details about the locations of its data centers despite inquiries from viewers via email, fax, and phone calls. However, early in October, the newspaper "Oregonian" reported that Amazon had commenced operations at a 120,000-square-foot (approximately 1.1 hectare) data center in Boardman, Oregon. Boardman is located on the south bank of the Columbia River.
The cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new US West (Oregon) region on November 8th with a newly established data center in Oregon State. This new region offers lower pricing compared to the US West (North California) region.
Local municipalities are fiercely competing to attract data centers by offering substantial incentives, but these centers often spark debates within local communities. Typically, they employ very few people and can cause environmental pollution concerns among nearby residents, as well as raise issues regarding personal electricity bill impacts.
The US West (Oregon) region becomes AWS's 7th region globally and 4th in North America. In this region, various AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) are available. Pricing is approximately 10% cheaper than the US West (North California) region and nearly equivalent to the US East (North Virginia) region.
According to Mr. Clayton, many government agencies isolate Hadoop-stored data into separate "enclaves," allowing only authorized personnel to access it. Some agencies refrain from registering sensitive or confidential information in Hadoop databases, while others implement measures by installing firewalls to protect their Hadoop environments.
Ventana Research analyst David Menninger stated that one reason Hadoop hasn't fully replaced relational databases is due to security and access control issues. Sid Probstein, CTO of Attivio, which provides access management technology for big data environments, commented: "Hadoop is a great technology, but it also harbors numerous potential problems."
"For many users, the most effective security measure for Hadoop environments involves encrypting each piece of data individually before moving or storing it," concluded Mr. Clayton. His advice to enterprises utilizing Hadoop technology is to "exercise utmost caution." Relying solely on the security features of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), such as ACLs (Access Control Lists) and Kerberos, does not meet the security needs of businesses.
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