While many organizations are moving their business applications into the Cloud, the ability to effectively control and audit access to the resources in the cloud, from both the internal network as well as the external sites, still raises security concerns. This presentation transcript discusses the cloud from a business and technical perspective including:  best practices for implementing centralized administration of user accounts across physical and virtual servers in the cloud; how to securely authorize access to root and other functional account privileged across physical and virtual environments, how to easily set up access controls and centralize reporting across both the Cloud and physical servers, and how to realize the full potential of Amazon Web Servers including EC2, S3, RDS, and the Virtual Private Cloud.