Indus Services Limited

AWS Cloud Hosting

The main components of this service are:

Implementation of Compute, Database, Network and Application services;
Support and Maintenance of Compute, Database, Network and Application services;
Data Migration;
Technical architecture and Design;
Security;
Risk Assessment;

Features

• Migrate your on-premises workloads to AWS
• Deploy into automated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architectures

Benefits

• Integrated role-based access control across all AWS services
• Fast and cost-effective solution for migrating

£100.00 a unit a month

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

258751138150274

Contact

Anand Kumar
02085381390
anand.kumar@indusltd.com

Service scope

• Service constraints: N/A
• System requirements: N/A

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: WS Support case response time depends on severity. The support response times for Developer, Business and Enterprise Support tiers are listed below:; Developer:; General guidance cases < 24 business hours; system impaired cases < 12 business hours.; ; Business: ; General guidance cases < 24 hours; system impaired cases < 12 hours; production system impaired cases < 4 hours; production system down cases; < 1 hour.; ; Enterprise:; General guidance cases < 24 hours; system impaired cases < 12 hours; production system impaired cases < 4 hours; production system down cases < 1 hour; business-critical system down cases < 15 minutes
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: You can sign in to the AWS Support Center by using the email address and password associated with your AWS account. To log in with other credentials, see Accessing AWS Support.
• Web chat accessibility testing: None
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Level 1 - Basic help desk resolution and service desk delivery - Free; Level 2 - In-depth technical support - Based on monthly AWS usage; Level 3 - Expert product and service support - Based on monthly AWS usage; Cost varies based on the duration of the support contract.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: AWS provides a range of resources to help customers get started on our services. These include: comprehensive documentation (in multiple formats), introductory videos, hands-on labs, online and in-person training, access to a large ecosystem of partners and support from the public sector account team.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats: Microsoft Word
• End-of-contract data extraction: No customer data is stored in this service.
• End-of-contract process: Buyer may terminate the relationship with Supplier for any reason by (i) providing Supplier with notice and (ii) closing Buyers account for all services for which Supplier provide an account closing mechanism. ; ; Buyers pay for the services they use to the point of account termination. Please see the AWS UK G-Cloud 10 Pricing Document affiliated with this Service in the Digital Marketplace.; ; Supplier customers retain control and ownership of their data. Supplier will not erase customer data for 30 days following an account termination. This allows customers to retrieve content from Supplier services so long as the customer has paid any charges for any post-termination use of the service offerings and all other amounts due.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: All functionality for each of our services is exposed through the web console. ; The web console facilitates management for all aspects of the AWS account in a consolidated view whilst providing access to all services and their respective functionalities.
• Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web interface is accessible: Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed application streaming service that provides users instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere, on any connected device
• Web interface accessibility testing: None
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: All functionality is exposed via an API.
• API automation tools:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • OpenStack
  • SaltStack
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
• Other API automation tools:
  • SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Java, .NET, Node.js
  • Other third party services with AWS
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: HTML
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
• Using the command line interface: All functionality is available via the CLI.

Scaling

• Scaling available: Yes
• Scaling type:
  • Automatic
  • Manual
• Independence of resources: Customer environments are logically segregated to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them.; ; Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers (i.e. EC2) ensure that customers are segregated via security management processes/controls at the network and hypervisor level.; ; AWS continuously monitors service usage to project infrastructure needs to support availability commitments/requirements. AWS maintains a capacity planning model to assess infrastructure usage and demands at least monthly, and usually more frequently. In addition, the AWS capacity planning model supports the planning of future demands to acquire and implement additional resources based upon current resources and forecasted requirements.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • API
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Other

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: AWS adheres to independently validated privacy, data protection, security protections and control processes. (Listed under “certifications”).; ; AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud; customers are responsible for security in the cloud. AWS enables customers to control their content (where it will be stored, how it will be secured in transit or at rest, how access to their AWS environment will be managed).; ; Wherever appropriate, AWS offers customers options to add additional security layers to data at rest, via scalable and efficient encryption features. AWS offers flexible key management options and dedicated hardware-based cryptographic key storage.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: No

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Bonded fibre optic connections
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
• Data protection within supplier network: Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Customer environments are logically segregated to prevent users and customers from accessing resources not assigned to them. AWS gives customers ownership and control over their content by design through simple, but powerful tools that allow customers to determine how their content will be secured in transit.; AWS enables customers to open a secure, encrypted channel to AWS services using TLS/SSL, and/or IPsec or TLS VPN (if applicable), or other means of protection the customer wish to use.; API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL to maintain confidentiality; the AWS Console connection is encrypted with TLS.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: AWS currently provides SLAs for several services. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of AWS’s product offerings, SLAs are best reviewed directly on our website via the links below:; ; • Amazon EC2 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/ ; • Amazon S3 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla ; • Amazon CloudFront SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/sla/ ; • Amazon Route 53 SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/ ; • Amazon RDS SLA: http://aws.amazon.com/rds-sla/; • AWS Shield Advanced SLA: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/sla/ ; ; Well-architected solutions on AWS that leverage AWS Service SLA’s and unique AWS capabilities such as multiple Availability Zones, can ease the burden of achieving specific SLA requirements.
• Approach to resilience: The AWS Business Continuity plan details the process that AWS follows in the case of an outage, from detection to deactivation. AWS has developed a three-phased approach: Activation and Notification Phase, Recovery Phase, and Reconstitution Phase. This approach ensures that AWS performs system recovery and reconstitution efforts in a methodical sequence, maximizing the effectiveness of the recovery and reconstitution efforts and minimizing system outage time due to errors and omissions. ; ; AWS maintains a ubiquitous security control environment across all regions. Each data centre is built to physical, environmental, and security standards in an active-active configuration, employing an n+1 redundancy model, ensuring system availability in the event of component failure. Components (N) have at least one independent backup component. All data centres are online and serving traffic. In case of failure, there is sufficient capacity to enable traffic to be load-balanced to the remaining sites. ; ; Customers are responsible for implementing contingency planning, training and testing for their systems hosted on AWS. AWS provides customers with the capability to implement a robust continuity plan, including the utilization of frequent server instance back-ups, data redundancy replication, and the flexibility to place instances and store data within multiple geographic regions across multiple Availability Zones.
• Outage reporting: Public dashboard; personalised dashboard with API and events; configurable alerting (email / SMS / messaging)

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: "AWS controls access via unique user ID/password authentication. No actions are permissible without authentication. Remote access is multi-factor, login attempts are limited, remote administrative access attempts are logged and reviewed by Security. Suspicious activity initiates incident response procedures.; ; A session lock out policy that is systematically enforced: locks are retained until identification/authentication procedures are concluded. ; ; AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system controls access to AWS services/resources. IAM facilitates the issuance of access permissions per user/group. MFA is available at no extra cost."
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: IAM provides user access control to AWS services, APIs and specific resources. Other controls include time, originating IP address, SSL use, and whether users authenticated via MFA devices. ; ; API calls to launch/terminate instances, change firewalls, and perform other functions are signed by customers’ Amazon Secret Access Key (either the root AWS Account’s Secret Access Key or the Secret Access key of a user created with AWS IAM). Amazon EC2 API calls cannot be made on customers’ behalf without access to customers’ Secret Access Ke. ; ; API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL for confidentiality and customers can use TLS/SSL-protected API endpoints.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through: Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: You control when users can access audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: 01/05/2017
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: N/A
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: No
• Security governance approach: Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS customer, you will benefit from a data centre and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.
• Information security policies and processes: AWS implements formal, documented policies and procedures that provide guidance for operations and information security within the organisation. Policies address purpose, scope, roles, responsibilities and management commitment. ; ; Employees maintain policies in a centralised and accessible location. AWS Security Assurance is responsible for familiarizing employees with the AWS security policies. ; ; AWS has established information security functions that are aligned with defined structure, reporting lines, and responsibilities. Leadership involvement provides clear direction and visible support for security initiatives. ; ; The output of AWS Leadership reviews include any decisions or actions related to:; ; • Improvement of the effectiveness of the ISMS. ; • Update of the risk assessment and treatment plan.; • Modification of procedures and controls that affect information security to respond to internal or external events that may impact the ISMS. ; • Resource needs. ; • Improvement in how the effectiveness of controls is measured. ; ; Policies are approved by AWS leadership at least annually or following a significant change to the AWS environment.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Changes to AWS services and features follow secure software development practices, including security risk reviews prior to launch. Developer access to production environments is via explicit access system requests, subject to owner review and authorisation. ; ; Teams set bespoke change management standards per service, underpinned by standard AWS guidelines.; ; All production environment changes are reviewed, tested and approved. Stages include design, documentation, implementation (including rollback procedures), testing (non-production environment), peer to peer review (business impact/technical rigour/code), final approval by authorised party.; ; Emergency changes follow AWS incident response procedures. Exceptions to change management processes are documented and escalated to AWS management.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: AWS Security performs vulnerability scans on the host operating system, web applications, and databases in the AWS environment. Approved 3rd party vendors conduct external assessments (minimum frequency: quarterly). Identified vulnerabilities are monitored and evaluated. Countermeasures are designed and implemented to neutralise known/newly identified vulnerabilities.; ; AWS Security monitors newsfeeds/vendor sites for patches and receives customer intelligence via http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/.; ; AWS customers are responsible for all scanning, penetration testing, file integrity monitoring and intrusion detection for their Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS instances/ applications. Scans should include customer IP addresses (not AWS endpoints). AWS endpoint testing is part of AWS compliance vulnerability scans.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: AWS deploys (pan-environmental) monitoring devices to collect information on unauthorized intrusion attempts, usage abuse, and network/application bandwidth usage. Devices monitor:; • Port scanning attacks; • Usage (CPU, processes, disk utilization, swap rates, software-error generated losses); • Application metrics; • Unauthorized connection attempts; ; Near real-time alerts flag incidents, based on AWS Service/Security Team- set thresholds.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: AWS adopts a three-phased approach to manage incidents:; ; 1. Activation and Notification Phase; 2. Recovery Phase ; 3. Reconstitution Phase ; ; To ensure the effectiveness of the AWS Incident Management plan, AWS conducts incident response testing, providing excellent coverage for the discovery of defects and failure modes as well as testing the systems for potential customer impact.; ; The Incident Response Test Plan is executed annually, in conjunction with the Incident Response plan. It includes multiple scenarios, potential vectors of attack, the inclusion of the systems integrator in reporting and coordination and varying reporting/detection avenues.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: Other
• Other virtualisation technology used: AWS proprietary
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Customer environments are logically segregated, preventing users and customers from accessing unassigned resources. Customers maintain full control over their data access. Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers, ensure that customers are segregated and prevent cross-tenant privilege escalation and information disclosure via hypervisors and instance isolation. ; ; Different instances running on the same physical machine are isolated from each other via the Xen hypervisor. The Amazon EC2 firewall resides within the hypervisor layer, between the physical network interface and the instance's virtual interface. All packets pass through this layer. The physical random-access memory (RAM) is separated using similar mechanisms.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: AWS follows EU code of conduct.

Social Value

• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  Policy Statement; • All job applicants and employees have a right to equal opportunities in; employment. Indus Services aims to ensure that no job applicant or; employee receives less favourable treatment or is disadvantaged by; conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable on; the grounds of their gender, race, nationality, age, disability or sexual; orientation.; • Indus is committed to a programme of action to make this policy; effective in the areas of staff recruitment, promotion, training and in all; spheres of its operation.; • Selection criteria and procedures will be reviewed to ensure that; individuals are selected, promoted and trained on the basis of their; relevant merits and abilities. All employees will be given equal; opportunity and, where appropriate, special training, to progress within; the organisation and to enhance their career prospects.; • The responsibility for ensuring that the terms of the equal opportunities; policy are adhered to and implemented rests with the Organisation as; an employer. However, delegated responsibility is given to the Chief; Executive Officer who, with the support of senior management will; ensure the implementation of the policy.

Pricing

• Price: £100.00 a unit a month
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at anand.kumar@indusltd.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.