PSSPL Expertise in AWS Graviton Practices

AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver high performance and cost efficiency for cloud workloads. They are based on the ARM architecture and can be particularly beneficial for various types of applications. We have extensive expertise in AWS Graviton practices, encompassing:

Architecture and Performance

We thoroughly understand how Graviton processors outperform other processor types like Intel and AMD. We excel in optimizing applications to harness the full potential of Graviton’s architecture.

Instance Types

We are well-versed in the various EC2 instance types powered by Graviton processors, including A1, M6g, C6g, R6g, and the latest Graviton2 and Graviton3 instances. We can guide you on the best instance types for your specific needs.

Cost Efficiency

We specialize in leveraging Graviton processors to maximize cost savings. We can help you understand the cost benefits and calculate potential savings with precision.

Migration Strategies

Our team is skilled in migrating workloads from x86-based instances to Graviton-based instances. We manage compatibility issues, performance tuning, and ensure a smooth transition.

Optimization and Tuning

We excel in optimizing applications for the ARM architecture. This includes code refactoring, recompilation, and utilizing specific libraries or tools to enhance performance.

Security

We follow best practices for securing Graviton instances, including configuring security groups, IAM roles, and ensuring compliance with relevant security standards.

Our expertise ensures that we can help you optimize your cloud infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance performance effectively with AWS Graviton processors.

PSSPL Expertise in AWS CloudFormation Practices

We have extensive expertise in leveraging AWS CloudFormation to optimize and manage your infrastructure efficiently. Our areas of expertise include:

Centralized Management

Unified Interface: We provide a centralized platform to manage your AWS resources, ensuring streamlined operations.

Automation: Our team uses AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of AWS resources, reducing manual intervention and increasing efficiency.

Operational Efficiency

Automation Solutions: We utilize CloudFormation templates to automate the deployment of complex environments and repetitive tasks.

Patch Management: By integrating CloudFormation with AWS Systems Manager, we ensure your instances are secure and up to date.

Improved Security and Compliance

Access Control: We implement fine-grained access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies within CloudFormation stacks.

Audit and Compliance: PSSPL provides detailed change logs and compliance reports through CloudFormation stack management, enabling effective tracking and auditing of AWS resources.

Resource Visibility and Monitoring

Inventory Management: We use CloudFormation to define and maintain an inventory of your AWS resources, providing comprehensive visibility.

Real-Time Monitoring: By integrating CloudFormation with CloudWatch, we offer real-time monitoring and alerts to ensure the health of your infrastructure.

Cost Management

Resource Optimization: Our team identifies unused or underutilized resources through CloudFormation stack analysis, optimizing your AWS costs.

Efficiency: We automate resource management tasks using CloudFormation, helping reduce operational costs and improve cost efficiency.

Scalability and Flexibility

Scalable Solutions: We manage resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions using CloudFormation stacks, ensuring scalability.

Customized Workflows: Our team customizes CloudFormation templates to fit your specific business needs, providing flexible and scalable solutions.

PSSPL Expertise in System Manager practices on AWS

We have extensive expertise in leveraging AWS services to optimize and manage your infrastructure efficiently. Our areas of expertise include:

Centralized Management

Unified Interface: We provide a centralized platform to manage your AWS resources, ensuring streamlined operations.

Automation: Our team automates common administrative tasks using AWS Systems Manager, reducing manual intervention and increasing efficiency.

Operational Efficiency

Automation Solutions: We utilize AWS services such as Run Command, State Manager, and Automation to perform repetitive tasks and automate complex workflows.

Patch Management: Our team ensures your instances are secure and up-to-date by automatically applying patches and updates.

Improved Security and Compliance

Access Control: We implement fine-grained access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to secure your resources.

Audit and Compliance: PSSPL provides detailed logs and compliance reports, enabling you to track and audit changes to your AWS resources effectively.

Resource Visibility and Monitoring

Inventory Management: We collect and query configuration data about your instances and software, providing comprehensive resource visibility.

Real-Time Monitoring: Through CloudWatch integration, we offer real-time monitoring and alerts to ensure your infrastructure’s health.

Cost Management

Resource Optimization: Our team identifies unused or underutilized resources, optimizing your AWS costs.

Efficiency: We automate resource management tasks, helping reduce operational costs and improving cost efficiency.

Scalability and Flexibility

Scalable Solutions: We manage your resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions, ensuring scalability.

Customized Workflows: Our team customizes workflows and automation scripts to fit your specific business needs.

PSSPL’s Expertise in Migration of Infrastructure to AWS Cloud

Key Areas of Expertise:

1. Strategy and Planning:

Our expert team begins every migration project with a comprehensive assessment of the client’s existing infrastructure. We collaborate closely with our clients to create a tailored cloud migration strategy that aligns with their specific business goals. This includes cost analysis, risk assessment, and a roadmap for the entire migration process.

2. Migration of Diverse Workloads:

We have successfully migrated a wide range of workloads to AWS, including virtualized environments, databases, legacy applications, and more. Our team possesses the knowledge and experience to handle complex migration scenarios, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.

3. AWS Services Selection:

We excel in selecting the most appropriate AWS services for each workload. We make strategic choices based on factors such as scalability, redundancy, security, and compliance, ensuring that clients maximize the benefits of AWS.

4. Data Migration and Integration:

Migrating data is often one of the most critical aspects of any migration project. We have expertise in transferring, transforming, and integrating data into the AWS environment. We employ various methods, including database replication, data lakes, and real-time synchronization to achieve this.

5. Security and Compliance:

Security is a paramount concern for our clients, and we take it seriously. We ensure that the design of the AWS cloud architectures with a strong focus on security, employing best practices, encryption, and identity management. We also ensure that the migration process complies with industry-specific regulations and standards.

6. Testing and Validation:

Rigorous testing is conducted at every stage of the migration process. This includes performance testing, data integrity checks, and failover testing to guarantee a smooth transition to AWS.

7. Monitoring and Optimization:

Post-migration, we provide ongoing monitoring and optimization services to ensure the AWS environment remains efficient and cost-effective. We proactively identify and address performance issues and adjust as needed.

8. Disaster Recovery and Backup:

PSSPL implements robust disaster recovery and backup solutions for AWS to protect critical data and applications from unforeseen events. This includes automated backup routines and recovery plans.

Client Benefits:

• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through optimized cloud resource utilization.
• Increased scalability and flexibility for adapting to changing business needs.
• Enhanced security and compliance for data and applications in the cloud.
• Improved performance and reliability, minimizing downtime and disruptions.
• Access to a team of certified AWS experts with in-depth platform knowledge.

Conclusion:

PSSPL’s expertise in migrating infrastructure to the AWS cloud is built on years of experience, a deep understanding of AWS services, and a commitment to delivering seamless and secure cloud solutions. We take pride in enabling businesses to leverage the full potential of AWS, achieving cost savings, scalability, and a competitive edge in their respective industries

PSSPL Expertise in CloudFront practices on AWS

Amazon CloudFront boasts a suite of remarkable features such as collaboration with global telecommunication giants, customizable security measures, and advanced edge-computing capabilities.

Worldwide Connectivity:

• Amazon CloudFront collaborates with Tier 1, 2, and 3 telecom service providers worldwide. Its expansive global footprint consists of over 310 points of presence spread across 90+ cities in 47 nations.

Robust Security:

• Amazon CloudFront offers a wide range of security enhancements. It safeguards against threats at both the network and application layers, utilizing tools like AWS Shield, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Amazon Route 53. Additionally, it employs SSL/TLS encryption, ensuring content and API traffic is securely transmitted via HTTPS.
• Furthermore, CloudFront offers flexible access controls, enabling businesses to restrict content access in specific regions. Complementing these features, Amazon upholds compliance standards with regulatory authorities, including PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA, and SOC 1, 2, and 3.

High Availability:

• Amazon CloudFront maximizes uptime using the Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield and its failover mechanisms. The Origin Shield strategically caches content across multiple locations, retrieving them directly from the source only when necessary.
  If a primary source becomes unavailable, CloudFront smartly redirects requests to a backup source to ensure continuous service.

Cutting-Edge Computing:

• Amazon CloudFront enhances edge CDN with programmability and heightened security via CloudFront Functions and AWS Lambda@Edge.

Economical Solution:

• Amazon CloudFront offers cost friendly CDN solutions due to its flexible payment structures. Clients can choose from options like pay-as-you-go (with no initial fees), the Amazon CloudFront security savings package, and tailored pricing plans. Another cost-saving feature: Amazon CloudFront doesn’t impose fees for data transfers between AWS services and itself for origin retrievals.

Why choose AWS for DevOps?

• To support many facets of DevOps, AWS offers a comprehensive array of cloud services, including computing power (EC2), storage (S3), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), networking (VPC), monitoring (CloudWatch), logging (CloudWatch Logs), deployment (CodeDeploy, Elastic Beanstalk), and more. It is easier to set up and manage your DevOps infrastructure when all these services are available on the same platform.
• AWS offers virtually unlimited scalability and elasticity, allowing you to easily scale your infrastructure up or down based on demand. You can automatically change the number of instances using services like Auto Scaling based on predetermined indicators, ensuring optimal resource utilisation and cost effectiveness. This scalability is especially useful in DevOps, where flexibility and agility are essential.
• A wide variety of operating systems, computer languages, and application frameworks are supported by AWS. Due to this versatility, you can easily move current apps to the AWS cloud and select the tools and technologies that best suit your DevOps operations.
• To provide you more deployment options, AWS also offers services like AWS Outposts and AWS Snowball that let you execute AWS services on-premises or at the edge.
• Many AWS services seamlessly integrate with popular DevOps tools and services, such as CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline), version control systems (CodeCommit), build and test frameworks (CodeBuild), and configuration management (AWS OpsWorks, Ansible, Chef, Puppet). This integration simplifies the setup of your DevOps workflows and promotes a streamlined and automated deployment process.
• AWS prioritises compliance and security very highly. Identity and access management (IAM), encryption (KMS), network security (VPC, Security Groups), and compliance certifications (HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001) are just a few of the security features and services it offers. Because AWS follows tight security guidelines, you can develop and deploy apps in a way that is safe and compliant. You can only pay for the resources you use using AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing model. By adjusting resources in accordance with demand and minimising up-front infrastructure investments, this flexibility aids in cost optimisation. You may track and manage your expenditure with the use of AWS’s cost management tools, such as AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer.
• AWS has a sizable global infrastructure with data centres dispersed across the globe. You can launch your applications closer to your users thanks to this global footprint, which lowers latency and enhances the user experience. With services like Amazon Route 53 for DNS and load balancing, it also offers high availability and fault tolerance, ensuring your applications continue to function as intended even in the case of infrastructure failures.

AWS Well-Architected Review (WAR)

What Is AWS WAR?

• The AWS Well-Architected Review is a systematic assessment of your AWS cloud architecture.
• It’s an extensive collection of guidelines and best practices to help ensure the stability and success of your cloud architecture.

Scope of the AWS WAR:

• PSSPL proposes an assessment of the client’s current cloud state using AWS Well-Architected Framework, cloud-native tools.
• Introduction to the six pillars of AWS Well-Architected framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost and Optimization, Sustainability.
• How PSSPL leverages AWS tools for gap(s) identification.
• AWS Landing Zone architecture validation (high level) against the best practice guidelines.

What you can expect:

• Architecture assessment: Our authorized AWS professionals work with key client stakeholders to assess the existing cloud architectures.
• Report generation and recommendations: Using AWS tools and Cloud4C proprietary tools, we generate an in-depth report based on our collective findings and help client teams interpret this output into actionable recommendations.
• Remedial support: Our certified AWS experts support clients in their chosen remediation paths/activities.

After the conclusion of the review, PSSPL delivers:

• Well-Architected Review Assessment Report
• Remediations SOW with revised SA
• Recommendations

Benefits AWS WAR:

• The AWS WAR framework allows your solution architects to take a lifecycle approach for managing your AWS workload.
• The AWS WAR verifies the current state of the AWS workload, determines if all the best practices are currently in place, and validates that the cost of the workload is optimal. At the same time, the WAR can identify recommendations and potential improvements to your AWS workload and prepare architects to leverage new AWS services and technologies over time.
• The AWS WAR helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS.
• Insights and advice on how to apply the AWS Design principles to improve the AWS workload over time.
• The ability to envision and plan a future state workload that has the highest level of security and reliability, and is optimized for performance and at a predictable cost.
• The ability to make informed decisions about your architectures in a cloud-native way, and to understand the impact of design decisions.
• Significant funding for each submitted and approved AWS workload in the way of usage credits; there are additional AWS-sponsored funding programs that can also be leveraged to improve your AWS workload.

PSSPL’s AWS WAF Specialization

The way that businesses use the Internet has vividly changed in the past decade with many companies have developed advanced web applications that store vast amounts of data online. Unfortunately, this has exposed them to cyber-attacks. It is certainly much more difficult to assume there will be attacks, that’s why WAF is provided as a valuable offering by most of the big players in the market.

A web application firewall (WAF) is a network security device or web server plugin built to protect web services running over HTTP (usually TCP port 80) and HTTPS (usually TCP port 443). WAFs primarily focus on layer 7 security (refer to the earlier discussion on the OSI model) with the goal of securing web transactions and blocking malicious transaction attempts and man-in-the-middle attacks7 including SSL downgrade attacks.

Examples of malicious web transactions include cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and SQL injection.

More advanced WAFs offer session integrity checks where they can add additional items to server responses, including keys like a cryptographic nonce, that clients would need to include in their requests. WAFs can also be purpose built solutions focused on protecting XML communications for web services that expose an XML interface following a standard such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL)8 or offer a REST API.

Software-based WAFs are typically modules embedded into the Web server or application with minimal configuration. Primary benefits of software-based WAFs are that the Web infrastructure remains unchanged, and HTTP/HTTPS communications are handled seamlessly because they run inside the Web- or application-hosting process. Appliance-based WAFs don’t consume Web server resources and they can protect multiple Web applications of varying technologies.

For e.g:- FortiWeb is a WAF (Web Application Firewall) that is used to protect, load balance, and accelerate content to and from web server(s). As a WAF, it provides protection for web applications and related database content by mitigating common threats like cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, denial of service, SQL injection, and cookie poisoning.

AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a fully managed natively offered web application firewall service from Amazon Web Services that helps protect application-layer web applications from common web threats.

It is leveraged to protect the applications and APIs from ever growing landscape of web attacks and we help our customers to achieve a better security posture for their applications/APIs.

AWS WAF provides a layer of defense for AWS CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, or Amazon API Gateway. It is closely linked to Amazon CloudFront, the Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon API Gateway, and AWS AppSync. These services are often used to deliver content to websites and applications.

Here’s how it works: Individually configurable rules can be used to control access to web content. Requests can thus be specifically allowed, blocked or monitored. Common attack patterns such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting can be blocked directly, while other rules filter out defined traffic patterns.

High-level overview of AWS WAF working

Benefits of AWS WAF:

PSSPL’s AWS RDS Specialization

MySQL is most widely used open-source relational database, and Amazon RDS makes it convenient to set up, operate, and scale your MySQL deployments in the AWS cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes using resizable hardware.

Amazon RDS for MySQL cut shorts time-consuming and complex database administration tasks such as backup, software patching, monitoring, re sizing etc. allowing to focus on application development.

Amazon RDS supports MySQL Community Edition versions 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0, so you’ll be able to leverage code, applications, and tools you already use in Amazon RDS.

Salient Features of Amazon RDS

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