The current unprecedented crisis proved yet again that having a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan in place is crucial for businesses. Benefits of Disaster Recovery using Cloud make it an ideal DR solution. More and more companies are migrating to the cloud to insulate their mission critical systems from being compromised.

Also, businesses, globally, started realising the need to allow their workforce to work from home, using remote technologies and at scale.

As a cloud managed services provider and a partner of AWS, we have witnessed many of our customers embracing AWS Solutions for Business Continuity, Remote Working and Bolstering Security.

AWS Solutions Making
Businesses Pandemic Ready

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Business Continuity Planning
(BCP) & Disaster Recovering
Solutions from AWS

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Managed and Secure Desktop
as a Service- Amazon
Workspaces

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Security Assessments and
Correcting Security posture
using AWS native tools

Benefits of Cloud
Disaster Recovery

Hosting your DR in the cloud has many benefits:
  • Physical Disks, back-up tapes etc. can be eliminated
  • Mission-critical data can be kept off-site
  • Cost effective- You can pay-as-you-go.
  • Easily implementable and reliable (more than 99%)
  • Scalable and Efficient
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At first, we approached Cloud4C looking at their managed services portfolio and their stringent SLAs. They delivered at every given opportunity and we felt like we found a true partnership. We, at Fastlane Automotive have benefitted greatly from Cloud4C’s efforts and timely solutions with low turn-around time. We are happy that we have overcome disaster-related issues, thanks to their special interest in us. Their leadership is immensely motivated to enable companies like us and deliver the best quality services at market prices.
Mr. Nirmal Singh Saranna
CEO, Fastlane Automotive
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Solutions
on AWS – Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Business continuity depends on the efficient, uninterrupted flow of data across an organization – from
operations to sales to fulfillment. Even a brief lapse in workload continuity can mean thousands of lost sales
opportunities, disruption to production, and compromised customer trust.

Cloud4C supports the following approaches for BCP and DR planning using AWS.
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Disaster Recovery Scenarios
with Primary at On-Premises/DC

  • Backup On-Premise and Restore in
    an AWS Region
  • Pilot Light runs in an AWS Region
  • Warm-Standby DR runs in an AWS Region
  • Hot-DR runs in an AWS Region
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Disaster Recovery Scenarios with
Primary and DR on AWS

  • Web/App in HA and DB Master-Slave
    across 2 Availability Zones (AZs) in
    same region
  • Web/App in HA and DB Master AZ-1,
    Near-DR in AZ-2 and Far-DR in AZ-3 of
    same region
  • Primary with Web/App in HA and DB
    Master/Slave in Region 1 and, DB DR
    in Region 2

An enterprise can pick up any approach and Cloud4C
provides the following services to enable it BCP and DR on AWS for it.

Consulting Services

Managed Services for AWS Workloads

Cloud4C Managed Amazon Workspaces Offering

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Cloud4C will setup AWS
WorkSpaces, configure
and administer

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Cloud4C will help in integrating
WorkSpaces with your corporate
AD and applications

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Cloud4C helps you in enabling
SSO to your WorkSpaces

Desktop as a Service
(DaaS) - Types

Windows and Linux Virtual Desktop AlwaysON (Monthly) pricing or
AutoStop hourly pricing models
Dedicated Virtual Desktop

Types of Users
on DaaS

Value, Standard, Performance,
Power, PowerPro,
Graphics, GraphicsPro
and Custom bundles

Cloud4C DaaS
Offering

Value, Standard, Performance,
Assessment, Discovery
Deployment / and DaaS
AIOps based Managed Services

Assessment and Onboarding
  • Requirement gathering and blueprinting
  • AWS Account readiness
  • AWS Landing zone building
  • AWS Active Directory connector setup or Active Directory Integration
  • User profiling & bundle Creation
  • Secure Image Creation with applications
  • Custom WorkSpaces Image and Bundle building
  • Automation, Security, Control and Scalability
  • AWS Well architected framework and Cloud Adoption Framework, CCoE governance & compliances management
  • High availability , and Disaster Recovery planning for the DaaS Solution
  • Runbook Creation
Cloud4C AIOps based
Managed Services
  • Automated problem, change & incident management policies deployment
    • Desktop management
    • Patch Management
    • Security tools / AV Management
  • Data Protection
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Compliance Validation
  • Resilience Design
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Update Management
  • Monitoring and Fault detection
  • User experience management
  • Security & Compliance control monitoring and management

Cloud4C: Managed Services Capability – AWS Platform

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AWS Platform
Management

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OS Management

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Database
Management

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Backup
Management

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DR Management

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AWS Security
Management

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AWS Operations
Management

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Container
Workloads

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Cloud4C
SOC Services

Securing Amazon Workspaces

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The security and quality controls in AWS KMS have been certified under multiple compliance schemes to help enterprises meet their compliance obligations. Amazon WorkSpaces is PCI compliant service and conforms to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Cloud4C also received PCI-DSS certification this year.

Cloud4C will enable configuration to encrypt Workspaces volumes with either AWS KMS customer master key (CMK) or AWS Managed CMK for Amazon WorkSpaces. With encrypted volumes, Amazon WorkSpaces uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to create and manage those volumes. Both services use KMS customer master key (CMK) to work with the encrypted volumes. The client application uses SSL to ensure data security.

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Security Assessment for AWS Workloads – Customised just for you

Many organizations have embarked upon the path of correcting their Security posture to identify and correct system vulnerabilities, attack vectors and possible threats. How did they do it? They availed Security Assessment Workshop from Cloud4C to review their security posture and get an actionable plan for improving security for AWS.

Scope

  • CAF workshop focused on Security and Compliances
  • Discuss industry specific compliances required for the organization
  • Understand the current compliance control mapping
  • Assessment of tools configuration mapped against compliance controls
  • Identify Gaps in current compliance control and prepare a check list
  • High-level assessment of cloud governance
  • CAF based security recommendation covering - Revised Tools mapping (Cloud Native), recommended security tools configuration &. Governance policy.

Deliverables

  • Security Assessment Report
    • Recommendation on security control mapping (remapping) against tools
    • Recommendation on governing Industry specific compliance controls & maintenance of controls in green state
    • Remediation plan
  • Landing Zone (MVP)
  • Remediation SOW*

Security Assessment - Workshop Delivery structure

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3 to 6 hour interactive
workshop and AWS Tool
assessment (Cloud
Adoption Framework and
Well Architected Review)

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CIS 20
benchmarking
Assessment

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1-2 days of Internal processing and
brainstorimg to
create the report

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Report walk-through
and agree on the
next steps

Why Cloud4C?

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Cloud4C is offering Customised & Free Assessments and Workshops

www.cloud4c.com