Datacenter Modernization on AWS

Microservices architecture is a must for encouraging innovation in the new age applications. Management of Microservices is a nightmare unless it is effectively administered via automated solutions and state-of-the-art instrumentations. Our deep experience in managing large-scale Microservices Architecture-based B2B and B2C solutions can be leveraged to seamlessly manage an enterprise’s Microservices platform and products.

Cloud4C delivers scalable and cost-optimized Infra as well as DevOps services for Micro Services-based applications via next-generation Containerization and Management. We eliminate the risks and uncertainties associated with Microservices management.

• Define Microservice DevOps Strategy
• Managed Container Orchestration
• Scalable and Cost Optimized Infra
• Hybrid Cloud/Cloud Agnostic Setup

Microservices Consulting:

• Tailored, microservices architecture-inspired DevOps Strategy and Implementation.
• Gain the right Application Architecture Strategy coupled with customized DevOps tooling and support to ensure that the Microservice Management can be simplified.
• Microservice based architecture – Deploy istio based applications using EKS, Kubernetes Clusters
• Calico – Pod Security, Network Security – istio control pane

Cloud4C with the help of Cloud4C proprietary frameworks, 40+ security control objectives and 26 security tools, automatically collects and alerts on security data from critical AWS services such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and S3 and ELB access logs. The process centralizes and simplifies AWS security monitoring. The service includes cybersecurity management, including Active Directory, firewall, endpoint protection, virtual network, and antivirus which eliminates blind spots and ensures continuous threat coverage.

We offer a security-first design coupled with 24/7 security monitoring instrumentation and assisted by periodical audits is the security strategy we follow. We can help ensure a fault-tolerant security setup that helps Prevent, Detect, Protect and Evolve.

CAF-based Security and Industry Standard Compliance Assessment:

• AWS Native Tool Mapping
• Recommended Security Tools configuration
• AWS Security and Governance Policy using AWS Config and Blueprints
• AWS Landing zone recommendation
• AWS Security Solutions Demo

CAF Based AWS Governance Assessment

• AWS Platform Break-fix
• AWS Governance MVP (Minimal Viable product) to act as a Governance foundation for current and future workloads
• AWS Policies & Blueprint recommendation (Standard and Custom)

Cloud4C SHOP is a low code AI-powered management platform that seamlessly integrates different tools and solutions necessary to deliver managed cloud services to enterprises. The intelligent platform brings dozens of diverse operational platforms, applications together including auto-remediation and self-healing onto a single system. This enables the entire infrastructure and applications landscape to be auto-managed through a single pane of glass while providing customers with a holistic view of their IT environments.
SHOP makes Cloud4C the World’s largest Application-focused Managed Services provider. Key features of SHOP would be as follows:

• Intelligent, Automated Operations Management
• Predictive & Preventive
• Collective Knowledge
• Situational Awareness
• Remedial & Autonomous

SHOP transforms the entire AWS management game beyond comprehension. Integrate your existing platforms including third-party systems and seamlessly connect with your AWS cloud architecture through powerful APIs. Automate workflow management, IT infra administration, security management, and project delivery on your AWS environment with ease from initiation to end customer reporting. With SHOP for AWS, we prevent outages, predict risks and avoid threats before they occur, automate risk responses (Self Healing), optimize services, modernize cloud operations and asset administration, and improve overall engineering efficiency upto 50%. Avail a universal view and control on your AWS cloud platform and connected IT architecture.

Cloud4C Application Modernization on AWS offerings help enterprises in maintaining, extending, deploying, and managing their applications end-to-end in lieu with their current and future business strategic goals. This also depends on situational factors such as strategic business initiatives, application architecture, time, cost, and available skills. Various approaches and techniques for Application Modernization that Cloud4C supports are as follows:

• Rehost - Also known as “Lift & Shift,” is a common approach to migrating applications to the Cloud. We simply would move the application to AWS with minimal adjustments to the infrastructure as a whole. This Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enables enterprises to immediately reduce operational costs, free up space in their data center, and considerably accelerate any follow-up to their migration process.
• Refactor - This process is about customizing an application so that it is better aligned with the Cloud environment. This often includes modifying the application itself and part of the code to make more use of Cloud-native functions and the flexibility that they offer. Essentially, we would be switching to a PaaS model including AWS mainframe Modernization. With Refactoring, developers can re-use languages, containers, and the framework in which they’ve invested.
• Rearchitect - Some obsolete applications aren’t compatible with the Cloud due to architectural decisions made while building the app. In this case, it would be wise to consider “Rearchitecting.” This allows us to divide the application into several functional components that can be individually adapted and further developed. The individual components, or microservices, can be individually transferred to the Cloud.
• Rebuild - A Rebuild migration strategy means that we completely redevelop the application on a PaaS infrastructure – unlike with Rearchitect, where we only modify parts of the application. It involves removing existing code and redesigning the application in the Cloud, after which we can utilize innovative features on the AWS Cloud platform. A Cloud-native application is cheap to use and highly scalable.
• Replace - A Replace migration strategy completely replaces an existing application with SaaS including AWS mainframe modernization. When an existing SaaS application can provide all the necessary functionalities, Replace is an excellent option to save costs related to IT development.

Leading enterprises are doubling their data footprints multiple times each year. Hence, firms are looking to simultaneously reduce costs, take advantage of newer forms of big data, and enjoy greater flexibility in analyzing information with powerful AI algorithms. All these are possible through data modernization i.e. moving data from legacy databases to modern cloud-based ‘virtual bases’. As an AWS cloud managed services partner of thousands of enterprises worldwide, Cloud4C brings in certified AWS cloud experts and data scientists to deliver the right advice on data migration to cloud platforms and modernize it.

a.  Database Migration Services:

• Database Assessment and Plan
• Cloud4C Migration Factories - Faster Migration
• Database of your choice
• Data security during migration
• Migration Strategy, Approach, and Timelines
• Security Tools Mapping
• GAP Mitigation Plan
• AWS Estimates
• Migration Estimates
• AWS Landing Zone Readiness and Migration of Workloads
• Complex and Large Scale Migrations

b.  Database Management Services:

• High Availability and Backup
• Personalized and Customized Approach
• Database Tuning, Database Healthchecks, Disaster Recovery
• Maintenance and Monitoring
• Proactive Threat Detection and Prevention powered by AI and ML
• Near-Zero Management
• Automated and Optimized - First time and Every time

c.  Managed Advanced Data Analytics and BI:

• Data preparation - Single source of truth, Data lakes, Data Marts
• Data visualization

Large enterprises, SMBs often rely on SAP ERP systems to drive their core business functionalities. However, the commonly used supporting infra are costly with non-agile resources. This limits their capabilities to leverage cutting-edge newer SAP solutions such as S/4HANA. Migrating to the cloud delivers unparalleled efficiency and flexibility at zero downtime. Here is the list of deliverables Cloud4C helps within their journey of migrating their SAP workloads to AWS.

• SAP Landscape Assessment Report
• SAP to be landscape on AWS blueprint
• SAP landscape migration strategy, approach and timelines
• Gap Mitigation Plan
• Security Tool Mapping
• AWS Estimates
• SAP Landscape Migration Estimates
• AWS Landing Zone Readiness Plan

Once enterprises opt to run workloads on AWS, they have to address various management challenges that necessitate significant attention, demanding a business’s time, energy, and resources. Cloud4C can help and take this load off an organization’s shoulders with ease. As an AWS Advanced Consulting partner, Cloud4C enables businesses to realize the maximum benefits of AWS cloud hosting through a complete range of managed services.

Our Enterprise Grade Managed services from our AWS Center of Excellence help enterprises meet heterogeneous and complex technology environments through a robust service delivery model built on ITIL, ITSM, COBIT process frameworks coupled with our best practices we gathered handling over thousands of IT Modernization projects.

We determine workload needs, transform and migrate applications without disruption, furnish a secure, stable infrastructure. Our team of AWS-certified cloud experts can manage all the AWS-related databases and infrastructure along with application deployment on AWS. Our team possesses in-depth knowledge and expertise in the AWS eco-system. We can help enterprises and web application deployments to make the best AWS services and tools such as EC2

As businesses explore options to shift from traditional data warehouses and scale business operations, cloud platforms have gained immense popularity worldwide. Whether it is public, private, or hybrid, enterprises are continuing to move their workloads and applications to cloud infrastructures. Gartner predicts that more than 50 percent of organizations using the cloud today will transition all their workloads on the cloud by 2021.

Enterprises will no longer lift-and-shift into the virtual world but will instead refactor and rebuild directly in the cloud. While enterprises might retain some mission-critical workloads on-premise, most enterprise data and workflows would be powered by cloud solutions.

At Cloud4C, automated solutions facilitate database auditing, capacity management to platform-supported disruption management, upgrading, and patching - easing complex and voluminous migrations without data loss and downtime.

Design highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized designs for enterprise workloads (infra, application, data, and workplace ) with our cloud architects and security experts. Our CloudOps offering helps enterprises design a tailored cloud strategy, based on AWS Cloud Adoption Framework along with implementing the cloud infra promising scalability, sustainability, security, reproducibility, and ROI sensitivity as the primary focus points.

Cloud Infra Setup and Management – Secure and Automated infra setup defines our core strength. Avail on-click infra set up and tear down, automated on-demand new environment creation are facilitated by tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.