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Amazon Web Services Hybrid Cloud Solutions:
Integration and Troubleshooting Support for Amazon AWS
Progent offers fast and affordable access to cloud connectivity experts who can help your business to plan, configure, manage, and debug hybrid networking models that incorporate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based products and services with on-premises datacenters as well as with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure.
Progent's experts can help you evaluate the advantages and weaknesses of Amazon AWS services relative to competing vendors, migrate applications to Amazon AWS, design data protection solutions that leverage Amazon AWS cloud storage services, and resolve firewall and VPN connectivity problems. Progent can provide help from Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants to assist you build a resilient network infrastructure so your clients have a consistent experience whether they are working from your main office, a remote site, from home, or on the road.
Amazon is an innovator in the public cloud computing market and is the industry's leading provider of public cloud services. Amazon AWS offers a wide range of cloud-based services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for on-demand compute capacity for VMs, Amazon Simple Storage Service for instantly scalable low-latency cloud storage, and Amazon Glacier for value-priced extended backup and archiving. These Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions allow businesses of any size to transfer some or all of their network infrastructure to the Amazon cloud, using a pay-for-use approach to minimize hardware costs while simplifying administrative hassle and slashing the time required to roll out new applications.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
For most organizations, utilizing public cloud products and services is assumed. The only question is how to achieve the best balance between cloud and on-premises resources. Many companies have developed custom line-of-business applications which are tricky to adapt to the cloud. Performance-driven transaction processing applications may call for local hardware configurations to provided maximum throughput. In addition, corporate culture or government and industry regulations may require more control over key IT resources than is possible with public cloud environments. Consequently, hybrid networks, which combine on-premises and cloud-based resources, are commonly selected as the right solution.
To complicate things further, Amazon AWS competes with other vendors of cloud services such as Microsoft, whose Azure products include Infrastructure-as-a-Service options and also a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model specially tuned for Windows environments. Simply put, careful evaluation is required for any organization to select the appropriate cloud environment.
Progent's seasoned solution designers can help your company to plan and implement a hybrid cloud environment that incorporates Amazon AWS so that it optimizes business value. Progent can assist you with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design, pilot testing, configuration, administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security and compliance. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN access and can show you how to deploy all-cloud or hybrid cloud ecosystems that seamlessly incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services. Progent can provide as-needed expertise or provide comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services to help you migrate efficiently to the Amazon AWS platform.
Key Amazon AWS Services
The Amazon AWS line of cloud-based products offers dozens of infrastructure services that cover processing, primary and archival storage, databases, analytics, mobility, enterprise applications, management, Internet of Things, and security, Amazon AWS cloud services popular with organizations of all sizes and for which Progent provides advanced support include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon EC2, is a virtual machine hosting service that lets you provision, scale, and manage cloud-based virtual servers, referred to as EC2 instances. Subscribers can deploy any number of instances and you pay just for the resources you use. You can control the virtual server as well as cluster-level functions of a variety of operating systems, deploy your cloud-hosted applications, and manage network access permissions. You also manage your own software licenses according to Amazon's Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model. You can use a standard Amazon Machine Image (AMI) template and deploy a virtual server instantly or you can build your own image that includes your applications, software libraries, data, and setup information. Amazon EC2 can expand or release compute resources on demand to accommodate up or down spikes in workloads, eliminating the hassle of complex capacity planning. You also can request multiple host sites for high availability and you can use static IP endpoints to accommodate your application requirements.
Amazon Simple Storage Service, called Amazon S3, is a cloud-hosted storage product that offers low-latency storage for any volume of data. Amazon S3 scales easily and you are billed only for the storage you utilize. Amazon S3 is often deployed as remote storage for disaster recovery but is also appropriate for high-use applications, most notably Amazon's giant retail web site. Amazon S3's interface can handle multiple storage classes meant for various use cases. These include S3 Standard for general-purpose storage of primary data, Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access for persistent but seldomly accessed data, and Amazon Glacier for long-term archives. You can also define custom lifecycle parameters so your Amazon S3 data automatically and transparently migrates to a different storage class without forcing you to make modifications to your applications. Amazon S3 cloud storage can be used with Amazon EC2 or as a standalone cloud service.
Amazon Glacier is a cloud-based storage service intended to offer low-cost archiving and long-term storage for data that is seldomly retrieved. Glacier does not offer the low-latency of Amazon S3 storage and is not appropriate for online applications. Although restore time is glacially slow and can take hours, storage costs are lower than one cent per GB each month, which is less expensive than on-premises storage. In addition, you can cut overall storage expense by defining lifecycle rules to move sets of Amazon S3 objects automatically to Amazon Glacier. Amazon Glacier can also assist companies to comply with regulatory requirements for data retention by providing highly-dependable offsite archiving with features like periodic, systematic integrity checks and automatic self-healing capability.
How Progent's Experts Can Assist You Integrate Amazon AWS Solutions
If you intend to incorporate Amazon's AWS cloud services into your business using either a cloud-centric or a hybrid architecture, Progent can help you evaluate the advantages of the Amazon AWS cloud platform vs. alternative public cloud solutions. Progent can provide expertise for every phase of your cloud integration migration including preparedness assessment, solution design, feasibility testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, and disaster recovery strategies. Progent can also provide the help of certified cybersecurity consultants to ensure. make sure your system is safe and in compliance with applicable regulations.
Progent can assist you to identify which of your critical apps are suitable for Amazon AWS and show you how to you update legacy applications so they can be migrated to Amazon AWS. Progent offers economical remote and onsite expertise to help you deal with stubborn technical bottlenecks, or Progent can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure you execute your cloud integration initiative on schedule and on budget.
A common issue encountered while extending your information system with Amazon AWS, or with any public cloud platform, is establishing secure links for different devices situated either within or outside your corporate firewall. Progent can provide the expertise of Cisco-certified CCIE infrastructure engineers or firewall configuration consultants certified by Symantec, Barracuda, SonicWall, Check Point and others to help you deploy and manage security appliances for accessing Amazon AWS services. Progent also offers the services of iOS technology consultants and Android configuration experts to assist you to connect smartphones and tablets for your Amazon AWS environment.
Examples of remote integration services offered by Progent to assist companies interface with Amazon AWS include:
- Plan or review the solution design for hybrid networks that use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 storage
- Install and troubleshoot VPN access to AWS
- Configure Cisco AnyConnect and Symantec AWS Gateway Service
- Configure and debug firewalls from Barracuda, Symantec, WatchGuard, Check Point and others
- Plan, implement, and validate backup/restore systems integrated with Amazon Simple Storage Service
- Create and test AMI images for Windows or Linux virtual servers and applications
- Set up Java tools for AMI images
- Define, implement and verify security policies
- Resolve elastic and static IP address issues
- Troubleshoot DNS and load balancing issues
- Configure NATs for datacenters and branch offices
- Write PHP routines for signing AWS requests
- Create AD LDS instances for Amazon EC2
- Provide expertise for Amazon SQS service
If you need expert support with any facet of integrating your network with Amazon AWS cloud services, call Progent at
Other Cloud Integration Support Offered by Progent
Progent offers support for all major public cloud platforms and can provide fast remote access to a public cloud integration consultant. Key cloud platforms and services supported by Progent include:
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales functions including listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, merchants can broaden their market, lower their cost of sales, improve response time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can work with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring to help you shorten development time and costs and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Microsoft Azure cloud planning and integration consultants can help you with any phase of Azure cloud integration including requirements analysis, readiness evaluation, solution design, pre-production testing, implementation, automated management, performance optimization, license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security planning, and regulatory compliance assessment. Progent can assist you to configure and troubleshoot firewall appliances and VPN connections so your users can safely connect to Azure services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can help you set up key Microsoft technologies to run in Azure including Windows Server, Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. Progent can also help you to create a hybrid environment that seamlessly combines physical datacenters with Azure services.
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 some mailboxes located at your corporate datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your organization with any facet of designing, implementing and debugging your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you resolve challenging technical problems and also can provide extensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on schedule and within budget. For details about Progent's consulting support for hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange and on-prem Exchange systems, refer to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-prem Exchange.
Progent's Office and Microsoft 365 consultants can help businesses of any size to incorporate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project and OneNote into a cohesive solution that offers quick return on investment and enables improved business outcomes. Progent can assist you to interface Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with each other and with additional core Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint, Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server deployed locally or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also help you to fix compatibility issues between various releases of Office and can provide customized online Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 training to individual users or groups.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform planning and integration experts can provide affordable remote and on-premises consulting to assist organizations to migrate any part 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 your IT team with every phase of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, system design, pilot testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery solutions, and security and compliance.
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