How Law Firms are Using
AWS
Cloud IaaS
FOR THE LEGAL IT PRO
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Physical security
Compute infrastructure
Storage infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Virtualization layer (EC2)
Hardened service
endpoints
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MODEL
Managed Circuit
Direct Connection
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routing
Network configuration
Security groups
OS firewalls
Operating systems
Application security
Service configuration
AuthN & acct management
Authorization policies
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Auditors
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“. . .a very secure product to handle all kinds of different workloads at the
classified level in the intelligence community.“
“We could not have been this secure without AWS”
Doug Wolfe, CIO, Central Intelligence Agency
Performance
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How Law Firms are Using
AWS
What Are The
Applications?
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D I S A S T E R R E C O V E RY
Automated seamless backup and failover for any environment
Extremely low RTO and RPO are possible
Simplified process for regular failover testing
H O S T E D B U S I N E S S A P P L I C AT I O N S
Cross geography load balancing and redundancy
Much lower cost
Much higher security
S3
•Designed for eleven 9’s of
durability (99.999999999%)
•$.03 per gigabyte per
month
Glacier for Archiving
•Designed for eleven 9’s of
durability (99.999999999%)
•$.01 per gigabyte per
month
D ATA B A C K U P A N D A R C H I V I N G
Automated versioning
and retention policies
CLOUD DESKTOPS
• Better user experience than
desktop hardware
• Seamless uninterrupted
work experience on any
device from any location
• No need for desktop PCs
• Seamless scanning and
printing
• Automated backups of
every desktop
• Better data security
• Control of peripherals
• Loss of equipment no longer
a data security issue
How Law Firms are Using
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