Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-25 Thread Stephen Russell
I didn't know that AWS allowed you to leave exposed data on their environment. I guess you do what your customers want over the long haul even when you know that you shouldn't. It has been a long time since I have dealt with cloud anything. Suddenly we are talking about flipping to the cloud

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Laurie Alvey
Stephen, Thanks. I thought that WS was web services but didn't make the "A". Laurie. On 24 October 2017 at 19:39, Stephen Russell wrote: > Amazon Web Services (*AWS*) is a comprehensive, evolving *cloud* computing > platform provided by Amazon.com. Web services are

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Stephen Russell
Amazon Web Services (*AWS*) is a comprehensive, evolving *cloud* computing platform provided by Amazon.com. Web services are sometimes called *cloud*services or remote computing services. The first *AWS* offerings were launched in 2006 to provide online services for websites and client-side

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Laurie Alvey
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is AWS? Laurie On 24 October 2017 at 17:26, Stephen Russell wrote: > I don't have access to that information. Sorry. > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM, < > mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > > > On 2017-10-24

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Stephen Russell
I don't have access to that information. Sorry. On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-24 10:49, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> From a security POV placing your database in the DMZ is not as secure as >>> it >>> >> is behind that

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-10-24 10:49, Stephen Russell wrote: From a security POV placing your database in the DMZ is not as secure as it is behind that firewall. When you place your systems in the Cloud that is a benefit you define for yourself.

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Rafael Copquin
You're absolutely right Stephen. I will not contest that. Amazon does have a complete security scheme, but as I said before, my  clients are not that fuzzy. They are small and very glad that they can be "on line" all the time, checking availability of products in any of their branches, etc.,

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Stephen Russell
>From a security POV placing your database in the DMZ is not as secure as it is behind that firewall. When you place your systems in the Cloud that is a benefit you define for yourself. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Security.html It is your customer's data and you

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-10-24 02:19, Alan Bourke wrote: I know SQL Server Azure can be accessed from on premises just using its published URL and the standard port however you do need to whitelist the IP addresses that can connect. I imagine the other database servers are similar. Yeah, my ISP can

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-10-24 07:59, Rafael Copquin wrote: Hi Michael Yes you can! I don't know which of your presidents said that, but it applies here I guess. As I said in that post, I am an old programmer with very little patience to read an enormous amount of information. But my son, currently working for

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Rafael Copquin
Hi Michael Yes you can! I don't know which of your presidents said that, but it applies here I guess. As I said in that post, I am an old programmer with very little patience to read an enormous amount of information. But my son, currently working for a US company as a software engineer

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-24 Thread Alan Bourke
I know SQL Server Azure can be accessed from on premises just using its published URL and the standard port however you do need to whitelist the IP addresses that can connect. I imagine the other database servers are similar. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 24 Oct

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-23 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-10-23 16:49, Stephen Russell wrote: I don't think that you can just stand up your data there in AWS. I believe that you must expose it via an API. You pass in params to your method and it spits out data in XML or json. Now to be very clear, I'm not talking about using DBFs -- I'm

Re: Using AWS from a VFP app

2017-10-23 Thread Stephen Russell
I don't think that you can just stand up your data there in AWS. I believe that you must expose it via an API. You pass in params to your method and it spits out data in XML or json. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:16 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Is anyone here using