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Cloud Support

Migrate your on-prem infrastructure to the cloud or enhance and maintain your existing cloud. We like to use AWS, Azure, and GCP to host app services, functions, etc.

AWS

Azure

GCP

App Services

Databases

Functions

Consistency

Most software projects need at least three environments: 1) A development environment to design and build, 2) A QA environment to test, and 3) A production environment to deploy the application to its end users.

Differences in the configuration of these environments, especially at the networking layer, can lead to challenges when promoting from one environment to the next. None of us want to be in that situation on release day!

Using infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation templates, Azure ARM templates, and GCP Cloud Foundation templates) helps us create consistent environments.

When a change is made in the development environment, QA and production environments can be torn down and rebuilt in a matter of minutes or hours.

Cost

Services in the cloud are typically billed based on performance and availability requirements. A few of the resources that factor into the cost are compute, memory, operations per second, and storage space.

Naturally, a production environment will require the highest performance and availability, a QA environment will require significantly less performance and availability, and a development will require even less performance and availability.

Using careful planning and configuration helps us tune the performance and availability of services per environment, resulting in reduced cost and increased ROI.

Additionally, most cloud services are elastic. Their performance and availability can be automatically scaled up or scaled down based on a schedule or current workload.

DevOps

If the culture of an organization encourages or demands communication, collaboration, and integration between stakeholders, developers, testers, and end users, DevOps is a must.

The combination of Agile software development plus Kanban/Scrum with continuous integration/continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) can increase the satisfaction of requirements, improve quality, and reduce time to market.

Using DevOps helps us streamline the process of turning requirements into tasks, tasks into code, promoting code to QA, and, ultimately, promoting code to production.

Quickly responding to change by rapidly delivering high quality applications has obvious benefits such as gaining distinct competitive differentiators and increasing market share.

Security

We live in a world in which the daily news is filled with headlines about the breaching of infrastructure, the leaking of personally identifiable information (PII), and the consequence of paying significant compensation.

Incorrectly provisioning app services, databases, functions, or networking in the cloud can expose business-critical applications and private/sensitive data to mischievous or nefarious actors and even state-sponsored cyber attacks.

Using features provided by the cloud providers such as application gateways, private endpoints, and web application firewalls helps us reduce the likelihood of an intrusion.

Additionally, organizations that adopt DevOps and implement continuous integration/continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) can build automatic penetration testing into the pipelines.

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