AWS Cloud Strategy and Consulting
At Hyper Talent Solutions Ltd, our AWS Cloud Strategy and Consulting services are tailored for Government Departments, providing expert guidance in leveraging AWS cloud solutions.We specialize in developing strategic plans, optimizing architectures, and maximizing ROI on AWS investments. Trust us to drive your organization's cloud journey with confidence and efficiency.
Features
- Develop cloud migration strategies for seamless transition to AWS.
- Design scalable and cost-effective cloud architectures tailored to business needs.
- Optimize AWS resource utilization for efficiency and cost savings.
- Implement security best practices to safeguard data and infrastructure.
- Provide governance frameworks for managing AWS accounts and resources.
- Offer performance tuning and monitoring solutions for AWS deployments.
- Enable DevOps practices for automation and agility on AWS.
- Train teams on AWS services for effective utilization.
- Conduct assessments and audits to ensure compliance with AWS standards.
- Deliver ongoing support and consulting for continuous improvement on AWS.
Benefits
- Tailored cloud strategies aligned with business objectives and goals.
- Assessment of current IT infrastructure and readiness for cloud adoption.
- Guidance on selecting the right AWS services.
- Cost optimization strategies to maximize ROI and minimize expenses.
- Security and compliance considerations for data protection and regulatory adherence.
- Migration planning,execution for seamless transition to the AWS cloud.
- Architecture design and optimization for scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Training and education programs for teams to build skills.
- Ongoing support and consulting for cloud governance, operations, and optimization.
- Continuous monitoring and refinement of cloud strategies.
Pricing
£0.01 an instance an hour
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
5 6 1 5 6 4 1 6 7 0 3 8 8 1 7
Contact
Hyper Talent Solutions Ltd
Amri Nazeer
Telephone: 07772866727
Email: amri.nazeer@hypertalentsolutions.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/limits.html
- System requirements
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- See Service Definition and See https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Onsite support
- Support levels
- See https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
- 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
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- HTML
- Other
- Other documentation formats
- Kindle
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Data can be copied off customer EC2 instances using SFTP or equivalent prior to contract end. Data can be extracted from databases using SQLDump or equivalent and then transferred as per above.
- End-of-contract process
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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 13 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
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Almost 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.
In some cases, specific configuration parameters of a service are dedicated to, and only available from, the CLI, SDK, or API interface. - Web interface accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web interface is accessible
- You can sign in to the Support Center at https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/ by using the email address and password associated with your AWS account. To log in with other credentials, see Accessing AWS Support.
- 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
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- Ansible
- Chef
- SaltStack
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Other
- Other API automation tools
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- Wide range of 3rd party services hook into AWS APIs
- Also offer SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP
- Also offer SDKs for JavaScript, Java, .NET, Node.js.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- Other
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- MacOS
- Using the command line interface
- All functionality is available via the CLI.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
- Automatic
- Independence of resources
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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 forecast requirements. - Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- API
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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- CPU
- Disk
- HTTP request and response status
- Memory
- Network
- Number of active instances
- Reporting types
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- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Amazon
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- Less than once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
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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
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
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- EC2 instance storage
- RDS databases
- Backup controls
- Backup schedules are agreed during customer onboarding.
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Scheduling backups
- Users schedule backups through a web interface
- Backup recovery
- Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- 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
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
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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
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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 link below: https://aws.amazon.com/legal/service-level-agreements/
Well-architected solutions on AWS that leverage AWS Service SLAs and unique AWS capabilities such as multiple Availability Zones, can ease the burden of achieving specific SLA requirements. - Approach to resilience
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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
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Other
- Other user authentication
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AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system allows you to control access to AWS services/resources. No actions are permissible without authentication. IAM facilitates the issuance of access permissions per user/group. MFA is available at no extra cost.
AWS CloudTrail allows you to log, continuously monitor and retain events related to API calls across your AWS infrastructure. - Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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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). API calls can be encrypted with TLS/SSL for confidentiality and customers can use TLS/SSL-protected API endpoints.
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 once a year
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Other
- Description of management access authentication
- AWS controls access to systems through authentication that requires a unique user ID and password. AWS systems don't allow actions to be performed without identification or authentication. Remote access requires multi-factor authentication. All remote administrative access attempts are logged and reviewed by the Security team for unauthorized attempts or suspicious activity. Incident response procedure is triggered in case of suspicious activity. AWS employs the concept of least privilege, allowing only the necessary access for users to accomplish their job. User access to AWS systems requires documented approval from authorized personnel.
- 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
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- LMS Assessments Limited
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 16/02/2024
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
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- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
-
Cyber Essentials
GDPR - Information security policies and processes
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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.
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
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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
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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/.
Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer, and the customer must perform some of the vulnerability management process. See https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/ for more details. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
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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
Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. See https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/ for more details. - Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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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
- Supplier-defined process
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.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
- See https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud?energyType=true
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Hyper Talent Solutions (HTS) foundation is built on our core values, which guide our every action, initiation, and investment. We conduct our business socially responsible, protect the environment and benefit the communities. We launched a product called LeMones Bottle which is a reusable stainless steel water bottle to reduce single-use of plastic, this HTS initiation was supported by the Press release by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs in line with The Rt Hon George Eustice MPs’ Plans to ban single-use plastics on Published 20 November 2021. Furthermore, HTS Investment in LeMones bottles will support significantly reducing plastic bottles' carbon footprint, which is our contribution to fighting climate change. HTS continuously encourage the team members on walking or ride a bike instead of driving which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For longer distances, we encourage our employees to take a train or bus and carshare whenever possible.Covid-19 recovery
HTS bring the same passion and commitment to our communities and society as we do to our clients and the work, we deliver every day. We are providing insights and guidance to small businesses searching for ways to cope with the operational stress generated by COVID-19. Our teams organised the donation and delivery of hundreds of thousands of personal protection and medical equipment pieces. HTS has donated and had delivered thousands of meals to the places and people that needed them. We are committed to supporting various food back supplies, contribute to charity fundraising for serving the vulnerable and less privileged ones in our society. We believe that today's young generation is the future of our economic stability. Hence it is essential to bring them up to speed by developing modern skills and knowledge by fostering their future through apprenticeship programs. We are glad to declare our strategic plan to introduce a range of degree apprenticeship programs to support our government's economic recovery.Tackling economic inequality
HTS, we believe that today's young generation is the future of our economic stability. Hence it is essential to bring them up to speed by developing modern skills and knowledge by fostering their future through apprenticeship programs. HTS is committed to tackling economic inequality from the root level. We are glad to declare our strategic plan to introduce a range of degree apprenticeship programs to lower the unequal distribution of income and opportunity between different diversity/groups in our society and to support our government's economic recovery.Equal opportunity
About 48 % of the HTS workforce is Black, Asian and other Minorities. Also, about 40% of our employees are women. We are an equal opportunity employer and we understand and also experience the benefits of having a diverse workforce. The first benefit is diverse viewpoints. Because of our different backgrounds we all have different experiences, skills, lifestyles and beliefs that we use when formulating strategies and decisions. Because of this each of us tends to look at problems through a different set of lenses. A variety of diverse people working together to solve a problem results in a more holistic view which ultimately results in higher performance. Diversity has also been shown to result in innovation. As a diverse and inclusive workplace, we make everyone, regardless of who they are or what they do, feel equally involved in and supported in all areas of the workplace. Since we understand the importance and benefits of a diverse workforce, we conduct diversity training for our employees every year. As a result, we have reduced employee turnover costs by reducing internal disputes and grievances, have increased productivity and revenues. We have improved accessibility to new and diverse customer markets too. HTS has incorporated diversity into company policies and practices. We are open to developing or amending workplace policies to be more inclusive and diversity-friendly, from hiring practices to performance reviews, promotions, and benefits. We provide special high-valued internships(and training) and provide the CPD and support them to get certified so that they will be able to advance more quickly in key roles within the organization.Wellbeing
Our strength and most valuable assets are our consultants/experts/resources/staff. Therefore, we always look after them and their loved ones. We help them to enhance their knowledge and career/professional development with training and support to get certified. We have experienced over the years that our staff stays with us in long terms as we take good care of them and they are very happy to work with us long term. We hold weekly standup meetings (All our consultants in different projects join) to share knowledge and experiences, solve problems (if any) etc. We have a mental health champion, who joins in our weekly standup to give some tips and advice. Also, we conduct monthly mental health sessions with our mental health champion and that has been very useful, especially during the lockdown time as well as when returning to work after lockdowns. Lockdowns have affected different people in different ways, and it is only normal to feel uncertain. Many people feel confused, worried and apprehensive about going back to the workplace. All our line managers regularly hold meetings with their team members and that allow all members to express themselves to their immediate superior, not only the work-related issues but also their personal issues (if any). We have created an atmosphere, for every staff to communicate freely in writing or oral. Also, regularly we get feedback from them to know the mental conditions of each of them and escalate if there are any issues. We use questionnaires and interviews for this close monitoring. Furthermore, we get 360 degrees feedback (self-evaluation, evaluation from supervisors, from clients, from suppliers etc.) on each employee to measure their performance, twice a year as well as at the end of any project.Our annual medical tests also help us to measure the mental conditions of our staff.
Pricing
- Price
- £0.01 an instance an hour
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- No