The increase of public cloud adoption by organisations has drastically increased over the past decade or so. Taking advantage of being able to provision infrastructure as code to improve velocity and provide end-deliverables to customers faster has been one of the key drivers of moving to public cloud providers. However not every story has been positive, and we often hear news about organisations that encountered system breakdowns, data leaks or hackers that gained access to systems which were hosted in public cloud platforms. This is primarily due to several key factors but one of the main contributors is not having a solid base platform, which essentially is the foundation that workloads and/or applications are built upon. Lack of automation to consistently and efficiently manage configuration across a cloud platform is the main pain point most organisations experience which often results in poor governance and low security compliance. As a consequence, the importance of setting up cloud foundations in public cloud providers has become a top priority to many organisations.

AWS Foundations is our platform as a service (PaaS) offering that accelerates the setup of an enterprise grade platform on AWS which is secure, scalable, robust and cost-effective. It enables organisations to kickstart their cloud journey and allows them to start focusing on building and/or migrating applications into AWS without having to worry about underlying base cloud platform pre-requisites such as security, compliance, governance, networking etc. AWS foundations platform is built as per industry best practices with security in focus. For example, please have a look at our AWS Security Hub Automated Remediation Response solution which comes in-built as part of a larger array of smart solutions implemented via AWS Foundations. All architectural solution designs included in AWS Foundations are acknowledged and approved by AWS professional services.

Implementation of AWS foundations can be achieved in a matter of days (depending on customisations and external factors that are not within our control such as VPN or Direct Connect connections). We allocate up-to 2 weeks for knowledge transfer sessions to ensure smooth handover of operations. However, the reality is AWS services evolve and mature overtime. Therefore, it is critical that organisations continue to invest in overall upkeep and hygiene post any cloud foundations implementation. If on-going maintenance and/or management of AWS Foundations platform is a potential concern, then worry less because we have a wide range of support options that will satisfy your requirements.