Dentisoft Online Uses Amazon Web Services

Dentisoft uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host Dentisoft Office Online. Since 2006, AWS has delivered a highly scalable "cloud computing" platform with high availability and dependability. AWS is now the recognized leader in the cloud computing space, hosting thousands of well-known websites and web-based applications. As opposed to using a dedicated server infrastructure, AWS provides the most highly scalable and secure virtual server infrastructure available, which provides enhanced security, scalability, reliability, and change management capabilities.

Security In recognition of the unique data security requirements of HIPAA, Dentisoft has added additional layers of encryption security at every node within our AWS-hosted environment. We are committed to providing data safety which is in excess of that which is required under HIPAA. This includes encrypting traffic from your browser to each web-server, requests between the web servers and the database, during database back-ups, and in retrieving from data storage when necessary. At no point anywhere in the process of reading or writing updates to Dentisoft is the data ever available in an unencrypted format. This represents a significant upgrade from solo-location hosting environments which have typified the dental practice management system business in the past. The Dentisoft-AWS environment represents the most secure infrastructure available anywhere in the U.S. today. Change Management Through AWS, Dentisoft can also instantly accommodate the implementation of new software components across the entire infrastructure without the typical downtime associated with these kinds of activities. Updates and windows patches can be applied completely in the background without disrupting a Dentisoft user's normal course of business. This includes such normally disruptive processes as upgrading hardware.		Scalability Dentisoft also chose AWS to host its application because of the potential for unlimited scalability to Dentisoft's end-users. This means Dentisoft is not burdened by typical hardware constraints which can slow down web-based applications when traffic increases—we can accommodate a theoretically unlimited number of offices, users, and patient records. And do this without the risks often associated with changes to the hardware. Dentisoft can scale accordingly “on-the-fly” when necessary. Reliability AWS also has no single point of failure for any of its hardware components. AWS provides for real-time back-up servers in multiple locations around the U.S. (and the world) in the unlikely event of an outage -- service is restored automatically and in real-time. In fact AWS publishes a 99.95% service guarantee on all of its hosted websites. However, AWS also gives Dentisoft the ability to implement new servers in multiple geographic locations in just a matter of minutes. The cost of so-called "hot site" back-up is typically price prohibitive; yet Dentisoft users leverage this capability free of charge. This presents an additional reassurance that your business will never be impacted by an extended service interruption.