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Amazon Web Services Hybrid Cloud Solutions:
Integration and Troubleshooting Support for Amazon AWS
Progent offers quick and affordable support from cloud connectivity experts to help your business to plan, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid information networks that combine Amazon AWS cloud products and services with on-premises resources as well as with other popular clouds such as Microsoft Azure.
Progent's experts can help you evaluate the advantages and weaknesses of Amazon AWS services relative to other providers, migrate applications to Amazon AWS, develop disaster recovery strategies that utilize Amazon AWS cloud storage technology, and troubleshoot firewall and VPN connectivity issues. Progent offers help from Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to show you how to build a high-availability network architecture so your clients have a productive experience regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote office, from home, or in transit.
Amazon is a trail blazer in the public cloud arena and is the industry's leading vendor of public cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services can provide a broad range of cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud for on-demand compute capacity for virtual servers, Amazon Simple Storage Service for dynamically expandable low-latency cloud storage, and Amazon Glacier for low-cost extended backup and archiving. These Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions enable businesses of any size to move some or all of their IT infrastructure to the Amazon cloud, taking advantage of a pay-for-use model to rein in capital costs while reducing administrative overhead and cutting the time required to deploy new apps.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
For the majority of businesses, using public cloud products and services is a given. The only question is how to strike the best trade-off between cloud-based and on-premises resources. Many businesses run custom mission-critical apps which are tricky to adapt to the cloud. Performance-sensitive transaction processing database applications may call for local systems to provided maximum throughput. Also, company policies or government standards could demand more control over key types of data than can be achieved with public cloud environments. Consequently, hybrid networks, which combine local and cloud infrastructure, are frequently adopted as the right solution.
To complicate things further, Amazon AWS is in competition with other providers of public cloud services such as Microsoft, whose Azure products include Infrastructure-as-a-Service options as well as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model optimized for Windows-based environments. Simply put, careful evaluation is needed for any business to determine the best cloud environment.
Progent's veteran system architects can help you to plan and implement a hybrid cloud environment that incorporates Amazon AWS in a way that optimizes business value. Progent can help you with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery solutions, and security strategies. Progent can provide advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN connections and can show you how to deploy cloud-based or hybrid cloud environments that efficiently incorporate Amazon AWS services. Progent can provide occasional expertise or provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to help you migrate efficiently to the Amazon AWS cloud.
Popular Amazon AWS Services
The Amazon AWS family of cloud-based products offers more than 70 infrastructure services that cover processing, primary and archival storage, databases, analytics, mobility, enterprise applications, management, Internet of Things (IoT), and cybersecurity, Amazon AWS services popular with businesses of any size and for which Progent offers advanced support include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, called Amazon EC2, is a virtual machine hosting service that allows you to provision, scale, and manage cloud-based virtual machines, known as EC2 instances. Subscribers can deploy any number of instances and you pay just for the resources you use. You can control the individual virtual server as well as cluster-level functions of a range of operating systems, deploy your hosted applications, and manage network access rights. You also manage your own software licenses under Amazon's Bring-Your-Own-License model. You can utilize a standard Amazon Machine Image template and deploy a virtual server instantly or you can create your own image that incorporates your applications, libraries, data, and setup information. Amazon EC2 can scale compute resources immediately to align with variations in usage, avoiding the need for sophisticated capacity planning. You can specify multiple geographic locations for improved resilience and you can request static IP addresses to accommodate your application environment.
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, is a cloud-based storage service that offers low-latency storage for any volume of data. Amazon S3 scales dynamically and you are billed only for the storage you utilize. Amazon S3 is commonly implemented as offsite storage for disaster recovery but is also well fitted for high-demand applications, most prominently Amazon's giant retail web. Amazon S3's interface can handle a range of storage types intended for different usage cases. Examples include S3 Standard for storage of frequently accessed data, Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access for long-lived but infrequently accessed data, and Amazon Glacier for long-term archives. You can also define custom lifecycle policies so your Amazon S3 data automatically and transparently migrates to a different storage category without forcing you to make modifications to your applications. Amazon S3 cloud storage can be integrated with Amazon EC2 VM hosting or as a standalone cloud service.
Amazon Glacier is a cloud-based storage service designed to provide low-cost data archiving and long-term backup for data that is rarely accessed. Amazon Glacier does not deliver the performance of Amazon S3 storage and is not suitable for online apps. Although restore time is slow and can take hours, storage costs are less than a penny per GB per month, which is lower than local storage. Also, you can reduce overall storage expense by defining lifecycle rules to move sets of Amazon S3 objects automatically to Glacier. Amazon Glacier can also help companies to comply with regulatory standards for archival data by providing ultra-reliable offsite backup with features like periodic, automatic data integrity audits and automatic self-healing capability.
How Progent's Experts Can Help You with Amazon AWS Solutions
If you intend to integrate Amazon’s AWS services into your business using either a fully cloud-based or a hybrid cloud/on-premises architecture, Progent can help you evaluate the business benefits of Amazon AWS compared to alternative cloud solutions. Progent can provide expertise for every phase of your cloud integration project including needs analysis, system design, feasibility testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, license management, and disaster recovery planning. Progent also offers the help of certified cybersecurity consultants to ensure. make sure your system is protected and in compliance with government and industry standards.
Progent can assist you to determine which of your critical applications are suitable for Amazon AWS and help you update legacy or custom applications so they can be moved to the Amazon AWS cloud. Progent offers affordable online and onsite consulting to help you deal with occasional technical bottlenecks, or Progent can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure you complete your cloud integration initiative on schedule and on budget.
A typical technical issue confronted while integrating your network with Amazon AWS, or with any public cloud platform, is configuring secure links for different devices located either inside or outside your security perimeter. Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers or firewall configuration experts certified by Symantec, Barracuda, WatchGuard, Check Point and others to show you how to set up and manage security appliances for connecting safely to Amazon AWS services. Progent can also provide the services of iPhone and iPad technology consultants and Android integration consultants to help you to connect mobile endpoints for your Amazon AWS solution.
Some examples of remote integration support provided by Progent to help companies interface with Amazon AWS include:
- Propose or review the system architecture for hybrid environments that use Amazon EC2 and S3 storage
- Deploy and troubleshoot VPN access to Amazon AWS
- Set up Cisco AnyConnect and Symantec AWS Gateway Service
- Configure and debug firewalls from Barracuda, Cisco, WatchGuard, and others
- Design, deploy, and test backup and recovery solutions based on Amazon Simple Storage Service
- Create and verify Amazon Machine Images for Windows or Linux virtual servers and apps
- Set up Java tools for Amazon Machine Images
- Specify, implement and verify security rules
- Resolve elastic and static IP problems
- Debug DNS and load balancing issues
- Configure NATs for headquarters and remote sites
- Generate PHP code for signing Amazon AWS requests
- Build Active Directory instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Help with Amazon SQS
If you need advanced support with any facet of integrating your information system with Amazon AWS cloud services, call Progent at
Additional Cloud Integration Consulting Services Offered by Progent
Progent offers support for all major public clouds and can provide fast online access to a public cloud integration specialist. Popular cloud platforms and services supported by Progent include:
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is a collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales activities such as listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales, merchants can expand their market, reduce their cost of sales, accelerate reaction time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and costs and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Microsoft Azure cloud planning and integration consultants can assist you with any stage of Microsoft Azure migration such as needs definition, readiness evaluation, solution design, pre-production testing, implementation, centralized administration, performance optimization, license controls, disaster recovery strategies, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance assessment. Progent can help your IT staff to configure and debug firewalls and VPN tunnels so your clients can safely connect to Azure-based resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can help you set up critical Microsoft platforms to work in the cloud including Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL and Skype for Business. Progent can also help you to create a hybrid environment that seamlessly integrates on-premises datacenters with Azure-based resources.
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable seamless hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 and on-premises installations of Exchange. This permits you to have specific Exchange mailboxes located on your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consulting team can assist your organization with any facet of planning, integrating and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver occasional support to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Microsoft 365/Exchange initiative is successfully completed on schedule and within budget. To learn more about Progent's consulting support for integrating Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-premises Exchange environments, see Exchange Online integration with on-prem Exchange.
Progent's certified Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help companies to integrate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as Office Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Access, Visio and Publisher into a seamless solution that provides fast return on investment and promotes better business results. Progent can help you to integrate Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with additional core Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server running on-premises or in the cloud. Progent can also assist you to resolve compatibility issues between different releases of Microsoft Office and offers live online Office and Microsoft 365 instruction to individuals or teams.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration experts offer affordable remote and on-premises consulting to help organizations of any size to move any portion of their core network resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and equipment expense and allow the use of Google's state-of-the-art AI and machine learning tools. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design, pilot testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance.
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