How does your AWS cloud architecture compare to industry best practices? Are you sure your monthly AWS expenses are fully optimised? Are you confident that your AWS platform is well protected against security risks?
Your AWS environment is constantly changing. Engineers are continuously starting new instances, altering security groups, and experimenting with new AWS services. So how do you ensure that your cloud doesn't become spaghetti?
AWS recommends a Well-Architected Review every 12-18 months. This is a set of best practice guidelines for running applications and CloudNation provides this for you. We assess your workloads in AWS by comparing them to best practices in the following pillars:- Operational Excellence- Security- Reliability- Performance Efficiency- Cost Optimization
The result? You receive a whole range of valuable and actionable insights into your AWS infrastructure for free*.
What does a Well-Architected Review by CloudNation look like?1.     Kick-off meeting to get to know you and your workloads in AWS.2.    Your team answers fundamental questions from the AWS Well-Architected Framework.3.    2-4 hour workshop to go over the questions, identify missing puzzle pieces, and test your answers.4.    Delivery of the Well-Architected Review report.5.    Delivery of the improvement plan with a list of prioritised recommendations to resolve high-risk issues.6.    Addressing a selection of the identified high-risk issues (at least 45% of high-risk issues are resolved).7.    Follow-up meeting to discuss improvements.8.    Submission of the Well-Architected Review to AWS and receive $5,000 in Well-Architected Service Credits.

Planning to migrate to the cloud? Do this first.
The cloud can be an efficient and cost-effective way to make your data, applications, and workloads more secure and accessible. At least, if done correctly.
So, how do you successfully and securely migrate your IT to the cloud? The starting point is a Cloud Readiness Assessment. This will help you identify exactly what concrete steps are needed to do this successfully and securely.
The Readiness Assessment consists of a number of interviews and (read) access to existing environments to get a clear picture of the current infrastructures and applications. Based on the gathered information, we will prepare a presentation in which we report and explain the findings.
Deliverables are: •    Plan of Approach with recommendations •    High-Level Design •    Backlog •    Statement of Work for follow-up steps.
The result? Do it right the first time. You prevent unwanted surprises during the migration to the cloud and align everyone with realistic expectations in terms of budget and planning. In other words: everyone happy. Don't make moving to the cloud harder than it needs to be.

To ensure that the infrastructure performs as expected, testing is essential. The challenge lies in the fact that testing in data centres or environments where a standalone component or chain of components is heavily demanded can no longer be done with a set of client devices or servers. For this, NtwrkPeople offers Performance Testing services. Through our testing methods, we can simulate large numbers of users, adjust traffic according to the required tests, and generate high bandwidths. The tests are service-disruptive due to their active nature. We conduct the tests at a time specified by the customer, in a Proof of Concept (PoC) environment, or test an environment before delivery by another supplier as a second opinion or independent (delivery) test. A striking example is an upgrade of an internet line to a bandwidth that is difficult to mimic in terms of connection numbers and bandwidth. For example, a customer increases their bandwidth to 10Gbps and wants to test whether the firewall cluster can handle the load. In this case, we test not only the bandwidth but also the ratios in the traffic being offered, which is currently visible on the Internet, the connections in numbers, connections per second, and the offered data packets per second. Each customer and each test has its own characteristics that we can mimic with our service. The test runs for an agreed-upon time and is always concluded with a report of test results and, where necessary, an advisory report with recommendations.