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AWS Environment Foundations

Operating in the cloud fosters efficiency, agility, and rapid innovation. However, if not done right, you might “gain” the opposite. Despite the fact that there is more than one way to set up your cloud environment, there are several foundational capabilities that are necessary to streamline your operations in the cloud, keeping your data and applications secure, and keeping your infrastructure under control. 

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What is the cloud foundational environment on AWS?
Foundational environment on AWS is a starting point from which your organization can quickly launch and deploy workloads and applications in the cloud, usually referred to as “Landing Zone”. It involves technical and business decisions across multiple domains, such as account structure, networking, security, access management, and more. Those domains are considered in the light of your business needs to build the proper infrastructure solutions. The AWS cloud foundational environment is built with scalability in mind, considering future growth and business needs.

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What are AWS cloud foundational environment benefits?

  1. Grow with the business - AWS environment foundations scales easily and quickly with your business without compromising security. The built in governance characteristic of this environment is valid whether the environment hosts just few or hundreds of workloads.

  2. Reduced operations overhead - Cloud environments are API driven by nature, which makes it possible to automate a significant part of the operations. The AWS foundational environment leverages Infrastructure as Code in addition to procedural programming to automate your operations and lead your way to operational excellence.

  3. Baked-in Compliance - with continuous compliance approach, to prevent, detect , and respond to non-compliant resources the AWS foundational environment maintains compliance through resources across your AWS environment. 

  4. Unleash your developers - The AWS foundational environment implements a set of “guardrails” that allow your developers to freely operate in their dedicated environments while keeping them away from making mistakes.

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Who can benefit from cloud foundations?

Whether you are just starting your cloud journey or already in its midst, establishing cloud foundations will significantly improve your governance capability and security posture. The AWS foundational environment is modular and will be tailored to your business needs.

 

What does ccoe.io offer?

After a thorough discovery of your current posture and your business needs, the ccoe.io team will design and implement an AWS foundational environment, ready to host your workloads and applications. The design and building of the environment will be managed as an organic project, in a way that your team is an integral part of the delivery force, which will make sure they have the knowledge and means to maintain, scale, and further operate the environment.

 

What’s included?

  1. Organization structure (AWS Accounts and Organizational units).

  2. Cloud Native security tooling to allow continuous compliance.

  3. Centralized logging ingestion and storage.

  4. Identity and access management integrated with SSO.

  5. Security, Cost, and operational Guardrails.

  6. Centralized networking, and DNS.

  7. Fully automated DevOps mechanisms to maintain and scale the environment.

  8. Comprehensive Infrastructure as Code to manage deployments.

 

Key Activities:

  1. AWS foundations training

  2. Discovery sessions and decisions

  3. Creating a thorough design documents

  4. Develop the required infrastructure as code modules, and automations

  5. Deploying the environment

  6. Create RACI and operations guide

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