Snare Central is available to run in the cloud on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle cloud. We have specific images available for customers that want to run their Snare Central in these cloud platforms. The default image is sized at 400GB of disk and the customer can allocate additional disk and use the disk manager to increase their logging space for as many terabytes as they need.
After deploying the system you will need to load your license from SLDM, contact sales if you dont have this. Once you can login to the system run the configuration wizard to setup any local settings. It is recommended to patch the system to the latest patch from SLDM. The patch process for each image is the same as an on premises install, where the customer downloads the patch updates from SLDM and applies the patch to the system after taking the relevant system backups (ie snapshots).
Each cloud provider has options for their own server sizing or system shape that can be used with lots of disk options ranging from slower SAS to super-fast SSD options. We recommend that you size the system according to your expected system usage. In general running the system in the cloud makes it an easy process to increase the system capacity to a larger or smaller one if needed and then activate with a reboot. The key factors at all times are:
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