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CLOUD DESIGN & MIGRATION

Cloud Design & Architecture

Our system engineers and architects have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on multiple domains. This includes commercial AWS, AWS GovCloud, and the Intelligence Community (IC) Commerical Cloud Services (C2). Designing systems and software for cloud use requires a deep understanding of the services and their capabilities and limitations. Our consultants can help you design a system using AWS that will reduce costs and increase reliability by:

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  • Designing systems that are serverless reduces costs drastically while maintaining high availability characteristics

  • Creating data storage tiers to ensure access to data when it is needed without paying for unnecessary storage costs

  • Architecting a system that takes advantage of AWS reliability services so that your system will maintain operations even when an availability zone or region fails

  • Developing a dashboard that shows the detailed cost and use metrics to ensure that your services are operating at peak efficiency without wasting money and resources

Cloud Transition Support

Already have services and systems in operations, but you are considering moving them into the cloud? Our system engineers have helped government agencies and businesses make this transition. Avoid the headache of "lifting and shifting" your current systems and instead take advantage of AWS availability and reliability. Our consultants can help your transition by:

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  • Evaluating your current systems, designing a transition path, and demonstrating how this transition reduces costs while increasing your system's reliability

  • ​Ensuring the updated system uses the appropriate AWS components and auto-scaling capabilities to meet user demands while minimizing ownership costs

  • Creating a data storage plan that meets your security and regulatory needs

  • Providing life cycle management for your data, to include long-term archival

Secure Cloud Resources

The number one concern companies have when moving to the cloud is security. When used correctly, AWS provides security levels that exceed those of corporate IT assets. This includes physical security, network monitoring, and data encryption for assets and servers. Furthermore, a trained security expert can add additional layers of security, ensuring that even Amazon technicians can't access your data. Our cloud security experts can help you design and implement a system that meets your security demands by:

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  • Encrypting data at rest and in transit through AWS managed services or custom services

  • Hardening servers and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

  • Implementing security groups, roles, and user access policies

  • Establishing layer seven firewalls to provide application-level security

Hybrid Cloud Design & Implementation

Moving to the cloud doesn't mean abandoning your internal IT assets. AWS makes it possible to merge your on-premises assets with AWS resources. This can be done as a cheap method for archiving or storing data. It can also be used to offset your current assets without huge, upfront investments. Our engineering team can help you design a hybrid cloud to:

  • Integrate on-premises data and cloud storage to move data closer to end-users or for inexpensive storage

  • Link your networks with AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) to make a seamless, secure enterprise network with global reach

  • Centralize identity and access management by using your directory service for single sign-on throughout your enterprise 

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