Executive Summary
Alasco GmbH is a Germany-based construction technology company that specializes in providing digital solutions for the construction industry. Alasco offers a platform that enables construction companies to manage their projects more efficiently by providing real-time insights and data-driven decision-making tools. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to analyze data from construction projects, such as scheduling, budgeting, and procurement, to help improve the overall performance of the project.
The company's goal is to transform the construction industry by using technology to optimize and streamline project management processes, reduce costs, and increase productivity. Alasco's clients include some of the largest construction companies in Germany, and the company has received several awards for its innovative solutions.
The Challenge
Alasco GmbH currently operates its workloads within a singular AWS account, which poses challenges in terms of managing and securing resources as the company continues to expand. This Single Account approach may result in potential security risks, data breaches, and inadequate visibility and accountability regarding usage andexpenses.
To address these concerns, Alasco GmbH enlisted the services of Come to the Clouds Ltd., an established AWS Service provider, to assist in the project. Come to the Clouds recommended following the AWS Best Practices approach and refactoring the current solution into a multi-account-based structure.
Why Come to the Clouds Ltd.
Come To The Clouds Ltd is a highly desirable partner that can offer numerous advantages for businesses seeking to migrate to the cloud or optimize their current cloud infrastructure.
Expertise: Come To The Clouds possesses a team of skilled cloud experts who can aid businesses in designing, deploying, and managing their cloud infrastructure. The team has extensive knowledge of AWS Cloud and modern software development and data engineering techniques and can provide personalized solutions to suit each business's unique requirements.
Cost Optimization: Come To The Clouds can assist businesses in optimizing their cloud infrastructure to decrease costs and enhance efficiency. The team can evaluate usage and spending patterns and offer advice on how to decrease expenses while still fulfilling business needs.
Security: Come To The Clouds can help businesses guarantee that their cloud infrastructure adheres to industry standards and regulations, ensuring security and compliance. The team can establish best practices for cloud security, including access control, network security, and data protection.
Scalability: Come To The Clouds can aid businesses in designing and implementing a scalable cloud infrastructure that can handle fluctuating business requirements and workload demands. The team can help businesses make use of cloud services such as auto-scaling, load balancing, and serverless computing to ensure their infrastructure can expand and adjust as needed.
Support: Come To The Clouds provides continuous support and management services to ensure that businesses' cloud infrastructure operates efficiently and without interruption. The team can offer support, monitoring, and troubleshooting to help businesses avoid downtime and minimize disruptions to their operations.
The Solution
The project was initiated with a series of workshops in which the management conveyed their requirements. Based on these requirements, Come to the Clouds developed security, compliance, audit, network, backup and dr polices. Come to the Clouds created a multi-account setup in accordance with AWS best practices. Following the implementation of defined strategies and policies, the company migrated current workloads from a single AWS account to appropriate accounts and ensured adherence to all security and compliance standards.
Throughout the project, Come to the Clouds extensively utilized various AWS services, including Landing Zone services such as AWS Organization, SCPs, SSM, AWS Backup, CloudTrail, Config, CloudTrail, Lambda, and CloudWatch. In addition, the company utilized Network services such as Transit Gateway, S2S VPN, and VPC, as well as Workload services including RDS, S3, ElasticBeanstalk, DynamoDB, Lambda, EC2, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
Results and Benefits
Upon completing the project with Come to the Clouds, Alasco now possesses an AWS setup that is primed for future growth, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance as the company expands and onboards enterprise customers to its SaaS application. The new infrastructure and services have been successfully moved to appropriate accounts, ensuring a future-proofed setup that can accommodate the needs of a growing business.
Next Steps
Come to the Clouds will continue to optimize and modernize workloads to achieve maximal cloud agility.
