CODURANCE LTD

AWS Well-Architected Review

Codurance delivers the AWS Well-Architected Review against the 6 Framework pillars. We are an Advanced Tier Services partner holding the Well-Architected Competency, providing assurance of our certified expertise. In addition we support remediation of high risk issues to improve quality and security to maintain optimal best practices as you scale.

Features

• AWS Advanced Tier Services partner
• Certified to deliver the official AWS Well-Architected Review
• AWS funding may be available for remediations when criteria met
• Identify vulnerabilities in your AWS cloud workloads
• Create an impact versus effort plan for remediation
• Increase visibility of key risks and create a mitigation plan
• Build skills for a cloud centre of excellence
• Fix high risk issues with Codurance’s support
• Create a remediation plan based on assessment findings
• Understand how to stay optimised as you scale

Benefits

• Reduce risk in architecture landscape
• Reduce cost and improve cost visibility and planning
• Improve team skills and morale
• Improve security
• Improve system performance and reliability
• Increase your pace of innovation
• Increase velocity
• Improve the sustainability credentials of your infrastructure
• Prioritised remediations based on an effort versus impact matrix
• Improves overall understanding of architecture state

£800.00 to £1,400.00 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  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 robert.gray@codurance.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

752467979086690

Contact

Robert Gray
+44 (0)7495703436
robert.gray@codurance.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We commence a cloud assessment engagement with a short discovery period where we will run a number of workshops with you to better understand your business, applications, architecture, goals and people, plus any constraints we should be aware of that may hinder your cloud aspirations. ; ; Once we have a detailed understanding of what you are looking to achieve from the cloud, we’ll work with you to create a plan on the steps required for a successful cloud adoption.; ; The plan is tailored to every client and includes where to start, which application(s) to build, modernise or migrate first and what will be required to achieve this. ; ; We’ll also work with you to discover what skills will be required by Codurance and your team to achieve the future cloud state and what funding may be available via our partners to help cover some of the cost.; ; This collaborative and agile approach ensures you are kept informed throughout the process and the plan can easily be adapted aligned with business needs or other constraints.
• Planning service works with specific services: Yes
• Hosting or software services the planning service works with: All major cloud providers

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Codurance provides training, coaching, mentoring and academy programs to help your teams gain the skills they need to achieve their goals.; ; We offer a range of off-the-shelf courses around software development best practices as well as bespoke sessions delivered by our experts either as part of an ongoing project (on the job coaching sessions) or as a complementary Academy program to provide cloud knowledge as required.; ; Our experts that deliver the training most often hold recognised industry certifications from the major cloud providers, providing further assurance of knowledge and best practices as you build or migrate to the cloud.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Codurance will support you to migrate workloads to the cloud or between clouds whilst adhering to best practices (including reliability, security and cost optimisation) outlined by the major cloud vendors (AWS, Azure). ; ; We can either start with one application as a Proof Of Concept or undertake a comprehensive migration within your timeframe, depending on requirements.; ; We are an Advanced Services Tier partner of AWS and a Gold Cloud Platform Partner of Microsoft, providing further assurance of our expertise in the migration and modernisation of applications to the cloud. In addition, funding may be available via our partnerships to help offset some of the cost of the migration.; ; Codurance works collaboratively with you to not only migrate workloads, but also to modernise strategic applications to take advantage of cloud native features. We’ll help you improve the way you build, maintain and deploy your infrastructure and applications to improve deployment times and scalability.; ; We support you with building modern CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices whilst coaching your teams to help build a sustainable and skilled inhouse team that can support the cloud platform and services going forwards.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: Yes
• List of supported services: All major cloud providers

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Codurance supports you by creating an environment where quality is a shared responsibility across the whole team - a core principle based on Craftsmanship, DevOps and Agile methodologies. ; ; Our services are designed and built for quality, and tested as early and as often as possible. This builds confidence around quality earlier (shifting left) and creates a culture where QA and testing is a normal part of everyone’s role in a cross-functional team.; ; Codurance will advise and deliver the most appropriate quality gates, tools and solutions based on the customer requirements.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Codurance can support services that have been delivered as part of our Cloud engagement with the customer. We also support products and services from our technology as required and as agreed with the customer.

Service scope

• Service constraints: Codurance provides its services either on the customer site or via remote working. Whilst we cannot always guarantee availability for on site support, we will agree a suitable model with prior agreement with the customer to ensure the engagement objectives are met.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Codurance provides a range of support levels and options as required by our clients. Agreement will be reached based upon the client and project needs, budgets and timeframes.
• 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: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Codurance works closely with the customer to define and agree the required level of support for a successful engagement. Our Delivery teams are tailored according to need, with the core skills required for the technology stack and practices. Typically our teams comprise of Codurance Craftspeople, plus an Agile Delivery Manager, as well as the Customers personnel. Depending upon the context of their work and project needs, the team can include one more specialists.; ; The Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for the overall delivery of the team and project oversight is managed by several Codurance personnel including the Engagement Manager who acts as an escalation point for the Delivery and Engineering Managers to make sure that any impediments that can’t be solved at the team or project level are addressed.; ; In addition, the Codurance Account Manager ensures that key customer stakeholders have a strong relationship with Codurance and that the customer is getting the best possible value from the Codurance team.; ; Finally, Support & Oversight is provided by Codurance senior executives that provide oversight over the engagement. They will provide the final level of escalation for project governance.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

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

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Codurance understands the urgent environmental action required by businesses and organisations to reduce carbon footprint and promote sustainable practices to build a better future.; ; We are supporting these issues in a number of ways including helping customers migrate to the cloud and modernise their applications to be cloud native. Customers with applications hosted in the cloud consume 77% fewer servers, 84% less power and reduce carbon emissions by 88% by using the cloud compared to hosted on premises data centers.; ; In addition, Codurance is an authorised AWS Well-Architected Partner that can deliver the certified Well-Architected Review against the Sustainability Pillar. This new Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework helps organizations improve their sustainability in the cloud. This is a continuous effort focused on energy reduction and efficiency of all types of workloads. For example, selecting an efficient programming language, adopting modern algorithms, using efficient data storage techniques, and deploying correctly sized and efficient infrastructure.; ; Specifically, the pillar is designed to support organizations in developing a better understanding of the state of their workloads, as well as the impact related to defined sustainability targets, how to measure against these targets, and how to model where they cannot directly measure.; ; An example of where we have worked with a sustainable business is a global renewable energy business that builds solar and wind farms. We supported their migration to the cloud, helping them improve their carbon footprint by reducing dependence on costly and power-heavy data centers. ; ; Finally Codurance is a proud signatory of the Microsoft Partner Pledge, a shared vision between Microsoft and its global partners with a commitment to support and tackle key areas to improve society with technology across five pillars - one of these is Sustainability and a goal to reduce carbon footprint.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Codurance supported people in a number of ways during the Covid-19 pandemic. This included providing additional support to its staff to ensure wellbeing and health through regular online webinars from wellbeing experts, online team social activities and daily virtual ‘coffee breaks’ organised via apps and our Slack channels.; ; These measures ensured our people were able to maintain productivity and support our customers to build new software and platforms, even at the height of the Covid-19 crisis.; ; In addition, Codurance was at the heart of a number of key projects that were delivered during Covid-19 including creating new software features for a platform managing the transportation and supply chain of vaccines, blood samples and other biological specimens.; ; We also supported a number of other IT projects where businesses had to quickly pivot the way they engaged with customers to maintain sales in the retail ecommerce, healthcare and logistics industries. Our proactive ability to amend our working practices to 100% online ensured we were not only able to continue business as usual with customers, but we also transferred our ways of working to our customers, allowing them to better support their own teams with modern practices like hybrid working, online meetings and whiteboard, online pair-programming and team ceremonies.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Codurance has a culture of continuous learning and improvement that enhances the skills and career opportunities for its own teams and also those of its customers. ; ; All Codurance employees are supported to gain the right skills and certifications (including the major cloud certifications) to deliver the best services to customers. In addition, we also run a paid 4-month Apprenticeship program - the Codurance Academy for people with less experience to help them gain the technical and soft skills required to become fully productive members of Codurance project teams. ; ; Codurance supports people from underrepresented groups in the technology sector in a number of ways. We are a signatory of the Tech Talent Charter, a government-backed UK not-for-profit organisation that provides advice, events and initiatives to drive greater equity in tech. Our people are also involved in organising, attending and speaking at meetups aimed at under-represented minorities plus we support campaigns to drive greater opportunities in tech in the UK North region through our network of partners.; ; Codurance invests consultancy time and financial resources to facilitate and publicise weekly community craft events around the UK. The events are free of charge, are open to anybody, accessible independently of Codurance (via www.meetup.com) and are often hosted in partnership with local organisations. They represent a training opportunity for people in industries with known skill shortages and in high growth sectors. They also influence staff, suppliers, customers and communities throughout the delivery of the contract and long after the end of the contract, to support skills development.; ; By providing teams of people with diverse skills and backgrounds, we can help ensure that the products and services we design and build are more representative of the people and communities they serve across the supply chain.

  Equal opportunity

  Codurance believes in equal opportunity for all. We support workforce inequality through a number of policies and initiatives. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities throughout the recruitment process. Our staff and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics).; ; In addition to our equal opportunities policy, we also have policies, training and support for people around enhanced carers leave, menopause, flexible working, mental health and wellbeing. ; ; To ensure people feel as included as possible at work we run regular wellbeing sessions using professional partners and have an online platform where our people can manage their mental health and gain support through attending events. ; ; We understand that measuring progress is the key to driving greater equality which is why every year we ask our staff to complete an anonymous diversity and inclusion survey where we capture data about our people that helps to inform our future strategy.; ; We help our people, including those from under-represented groups to progress their careers through ongoing career development reviews, delivering training or coaching where required to ensure they are able to deliver results to our customers and drive project and personal success. ; ; Our Codurance training academy is designed and delivered by our inhouse experts to ensure our Craftspeople-in-Training have the required knowledge and skills in cloud technologies to build against industry best practices and gain recognised certifications.

  Wellbeing

  Codurance understands the value of wellbeing and positive mental health for its employees and the wider tech community including its customers.; ; We support our teams wellbeing in a number of ways including providing mental health first aiders and delivering regular wellbeing sessions via preferred partners.; ; We further ensure wellbeing through giving our people access to an online wellbeing platform called Lyfe that offers advice, webinars, resources and content.; ; The wellbeing of our people is critical to long-term success of both our business and our customer’s success so we invest in this to attract and retain talent and demonstrate a positive and supportive culture for all.; ; We support skills and community building in the tech industry by hosting the London Software Craftsmanship community, the Software Crafters North community and the Barcelona Software Crafters community. These communities meet, share and learn about designing well-crafted software with quality and best practices built in to drive greater success. ; ; We are also supporting the wider tech community through providing expert instructors and coaches at meetups that are focused on diversity and inclusion on tech (eg. women in tech meetups, black coders meetups etc).

Pricing

• Price: £800.00 to £1,400.00 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  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 robert.gray@codurance.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.