After a month of testing, Amazon has announced that Zocalo, the service to store and share online documents, is now available worldwide for all customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon announced the Zocalo service in July, the service is designed especially for corporate customers that want to save the data and share. After a 30-day test phase of the Zocalo, the service costs $5 a month.
Zocalo is a service comparable to that offered by Dropbox cloud where data is accessible from any connected device and the system also offers the option of automatic synchronization of data.Zocalo proposes to implement security policies allowing for example to prevent copying of certain documents to the outside. It can also control and restrict user access, or choose the country in which your data will be stored via a system of regions.
The service offers with enterprise-grade security, strong administrative and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity. With the Zocalo Management Console, administrators can review the records and keep track of file and user activity and decide whether to allow a user to share a file outside the organization.
Zocalo administrators can configure the software so that employees cannot share documents with external entities. In addition, administrators can specify the region in which the files are stored. Zocalo users can preview Microsoft Office files, Web pages, images, PDFs and text files, view and comment on the data directly. The largest size of file is 5GB including a storage capacity of 200 GB. Amazon Workspace customers also receive free access to the Zocalo, where 50 GB of storage per user are available.
Amazon Zocalo can integrate with your existing Active Directory. This means that users can easily access Amazon Zocalo using their existing Active Directory credentials.