Trend Micro announced a slate of cloud-based security services for Amazon Web Services. The Deep Security as a Service is offered as a variety of security modules that can be activated by AWS customers. The services include data encryption, firewall, malicious software detection and blocking, file-integrity monitoring, and compliance controls. Trend Micro is charging for activation of the security services to suit the on-demand environment through a simple per server per hour rate, which starts at 10 cents per hour per module. More than 100 Trend Micro customers are said to be early adopters of these new services.”]

