Purpose-built protection for instant savings on Amazon EC2

Bitdefender helps Amazon Web Services customers save on security-dedicated costs in the cloud by providing largely-scalable antimalware billed by the hour. Security-as-a-Service for AWS has been purpose-built to deliver high-performance protection on Windows and Linux EC2 instances running in the Amazon cloud. With patent-pending optimization technologies, the solution enables considerable performance gains by centralizing and deduplicating the antimalware functionality to dedicated scanning services.

Security-as-a-Service for AWS implements simplified management and deployment through an intuitive web-based console that helps overcome administrative complexity. Tightly integrated with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web services, the Security Console enables centralized management, reporting and configuration of the protected instances, providing users with a unified view of the security status across all supported AWS regions.

Bitdefender integrates with Amazon’s Flexible Payment System (FPS) to accommodate consumption-based licensing, so all you need for registering to the service is a valid Amazon account.

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Traditional security comes with a price

Traditional antimalware solutions are not designed to run in public cloud infrastructures and are therefore inefficient in terms of performance, management and even up-to-date protection. When used on virtual instances, legacy security can lead to:

• Laborious management: With traditional antivirus, a full antimalware agent is required on each virtual machine instance. This duplicates the effort of deploying the AV software every time a virtual instance is created, increasing the management overhead.
• Poor performance: Traditional security treats each virtual machine on a silo basis, scanning each instance locally. This results in significant resource duplication and can lead to performance spikes during regular updates, especially when starting an instance after a long period of dormancy.
• Rigid licensing: Traditional antivirus licensing does not accommodate the hourly consumption-based model, which means organizations must estimate their peak in utilizing the service. This directly impacts the costs savings gained by moving applications into the cloud.Integrates with VMware vCenter Server and Citrix XenServer to import organizational nodes and inventory for increased manageability within the datacenter

Security HOW you want it, WHEN you need it

Security-as-a-Service for AWS delivers resource-effective and comprehensive protection to any number of Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud. Combining purpose-built security technology with utility-based licensing, Bitdefender allows you to power on security how you want it, when you need it.

• Centralized antimalware: Offloads antivirus functions from each virtual machine instance to a dedicated service hosted by Bitdefender in each Amazon EC2 region.
• Purpose-built protection: Defends file systems, processes and memory on Windows and Linux with minimal impact on the virtual machines due to lightweight antimalware footprint.
• High scalability: Scales on demand to accommodate growing business needs and also eliminates administrative burden with near-instant deployment and extensive reporting.
• Integrated management: Replicates the Amazon EC2 availability zones to allow centralized management and automatic deployment of security agents to the protected instances.
• Flexible licensing model: Provides Amazon customers with the billing flexibility they are used to by accommodating pay-as-you-grow security services, billed by the hour at the end of the month.

Ease of implementation and management

Minimal system demands

Security-as-a-Service for AWS has been architected from the ground up to address particular performance needs specific to cloud environments by providing low impact and lightweight antimalware.