About the client

Customer is a multibillion-dollar NASDAQ listed enterprise, leading provider of advanced location-based solutions that maximize productivity and enhance profitability. The company integrates its positioning expertise in GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide complete commercial solutions. They serve a variety of industries including agriculture, engineering and construction, transportation and wireless communications infrastructure. Their products are used in 150+ countries around the world with over 1,100 patents for their broadest positioning solutions portfolio in the industry.

Business Challenges

Client was looking to transform their Enterprise business, develop innovative solutions, and rapidly introduce new products to market at low costs. They were also looking for a cloud partner that could help them with their Enterprise transformation to the Cloud. It was of utmost importance that this partner would work as an extended team with proven technical acumen, ensuring all Cloud controls and maintaining best practices. They also required proactive 24/7 monitoring, SysOps, DevOps and management of their cloud infrastructure. AWS was chosen as the Cloud platform for this transformation whereas SecureKloud was their ultimate choice because of its unique and extensive expertise in AWS Managed Services, advanced automation and DevOps capabilities.

SecureKloud Solution for the Client

SecureKloud offers the following as part of the Enterprise Cloud Managed Services to this customer:

The Client, a leader in research capabilities and business innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, was handling huge volumes of data from iterative laboratory experiments and clinical trials, through traditional IT processes with on-premises data centers. On realizing the need to accelerate its IT operations, the client was looking for a reliable, efficient technology partner to handhold the organization in upgrading to Cloud technology with enhanced data security, Identity Managed Secure Access to critical data and compliance to pharmaceutical industry protocols. Ultimately, the client collaborated with SecureKloud to benefit from the lattes deep expertise and experience in Cloud technology.

SecureKloud Cloud Managed Services

SecureKloud was involved in architecture, design and management of the following in AWS for this particular customer:

Platform:

SecureKloud engineering worked with customer to build platforms on AWS to accelerate Go-To Market of their products and managed them.

Security:

SecureKloud designed and managed customer VPC with VPC Flow logs, Cloud Trail and AWS Config logs, Lambda events on AWS Config, IAM policies and security group rules to control access flow, VPC endpoints, S3 buckets with server-side encryption, bucket policies, archival through glacier, SIEM with Sumo Logic, multiple VPCs with peering. On top of this, SecureKloud provided Artificial intelligence systems and machine learning for Continuous Security, EC2/RDS Anomaly detections, ENI Behaviour modelling, IPS/IDS, VPC Flow log Analysis, Behaviour Intrusion Threats on Logs for cloud operations.

Scalability:

SecureKloud designed and managed Auto scaling with Lifecycle rules, ELB for internal/external load balancing, MongoDB Highly available- replicated shards, Kafka for stream/events processing and Scalable content delivery using Cloud Front.

DevOps/Sys Ops:

Cloud Formation based environment provisioning, Code Commit/Code deploy, AWS Lambda on AWS Config and Cloud Watch events, Mesos based Jobs for backups, recovery and routine operational tasks.

Cost optimization:

SecureKloud made innovative use of Spot EC2 instances intro their platform which brought cost savings around ~55%, Reserved Instances and deployed automated Continuous cost optimization agents to reduce cost leakages.

Performance optimization:

SecureKloud continuously worked with SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB and Kafka on customer production environments for migration, performance improvements, rebalancing and tuning. In addition to the above, SecureKloud constantly evaluated latest products like ECS, EFS, Aurora, Service Templates etc introduced by AWS and recommended them whenever needed to customer

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