We can help your company grow your cloud maturity level and achieve your cloud business goals through application of well-architected framework across multiple dimensions.

Here are some of cloud-centric services we provide:

• General Cloud Enterprise Architecture
• General Cloud Solutions Architecture
• Migrations:
  • On-prem to cloud
  • Traditional cloud stack (EC2/RDS etc) to other cloud targets (containers, serverless)
• Resiliency of workloads (within region, avoid Single Point of Failure by using multi-AZ configurations)
• Disaster Recovery:
  • Help to assign business tiers to your applications, define RTO/RPO
  • Review DR options available for multi-region cloud environments
  • Align appropriate DR options with applications per business tier (backup/restore, Pilot Light, Warm or Hot Standby, Active-Active)
  • Architect cloud services per application tier RTP/RPO targets;
  • Setup automated replication for multiple data back ends - S3, AMI, EFS, RDS, Redshift, etc
  • Configure semi-automated and manual failover for applications Tier 1 and below, automated failover for Tier 0 Active/Active scenarios
  • Leverage services like Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and other DR solutions
  • Assist with Business Continuity planning
• Help create Operational Runbooks for multiple scenarios like Disaster Recovery, Security Incident Response and other Operational Excellence related considerations
• Create robust corporate cloud standards for all pillars of well-architected framework

 

Specific to On-prem to Cloud migrations, we can help you dive deep into any of the following topics, all of which need to be considered to varying degree to make your cloud migration a success - the following applies to AWS platform:

• Governance and security
• Account governance: account, organization and VPC structure planning, service control policies
• Identity Federation mechanism for application and platform management use cases
• Security, auditing and compliance
• Application tiering based on business impact
• Application portfolio migration prioritization and timelines
• Cost controls
• Tagging strategy
• Cost controls and optimization, ongoing cost reporting, cost anomaly monitoring and alerting
• Storage tiering policies, data lifecycle management
• Leveraging AWS discount mechanisms where applicable
• Architectural considerations
• AWS architecture approach, traditional vs containers vs serverless event driven architecture
• CI/CD pipeline design and tooling
• Resilience and Disaster Recovery methodology, replication, multi-region, RTO and RPO per application, backup strategy
• Domain resolution approach
• Global latency management
• Migration methodology and tools
• Ongoing platform management and AWS partnership
• Monitoring and Observability planning, centralized logging, event notification, full stack monitoring options
• Patching and system administration approach
• Collaboration channels between customer and AWS Enterprise Support, operational and incident response planning, operational run books development
• Business Continuity planning
• Support staff training and certification
• Executive alignment with AWS, partner for success (AWS Executive Briefing, strategic alignment between customer and key AWS executives)

Reach out to us via Contact page to discuss how we can help.