AWS Cloud & Infrastructure

Build My AWS Foundation

Design and build a secure, governed and scalable AWS foundation using AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles.

The challenge

Where organisations get stuck

Your organisation is growing, but your cloud environment wasn't designed for where the business is going. You may have inconsistent AWS accounts, networking, security controls, infrastructure or deployment processes.

  • Security exposure
  • Slow deployments
  • Poor governance
  • Limited visibility
  • Uncontrolled costs
  • Difficult scaling
  • Operational dependency on individuals
Enterprise data centre corridor representing AWS cloud infrastructure

How Analytics Hive helps

AWS Cloud Foundation

Analytics Hive designs and builds a secure, governed and scalable AWS Cloud Foundation using AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles.

What the engagement includes

  • Discovery and assessment
  • Current-state architecture
  • Target AWS architecture
  • AWS Organizations and account structure
  • AWS Control Tower / Landing Zone
  • Networking
  • IAM foundation
  • Security guardrails
  • Logging and monitoring
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automation
  • Documentation and knowledge transfer

AWS services we build on

  • AWS Organizations
  • Control Tower
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • EC2
  • S3
  • RDS
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform

Expected outcome

From fragmented infrastructure to a secure, governed and scalable AWS foundation.

What we deliver

Tangible outputs, not slideware

Typical artefacts from a cloud & infrastructure engagement, tailored to the scope we agree with you.

  • Current-state assessment and target AWS architecture
  • Multi-account landing zone and governance model
  • Migration roadmap with wave planning and cutover runbooks
  • Infrastructure as Code baselines and deployment pipelines
  • Resilience, backup and disaster recovery design
  • Cost optimisation and FinOps operating model
  • Operational runbooks, monitoring and knowledge transfer

Our approach

How the work runs

  1. 01

    Assess

    Understand your business objectives, current environment, risks and opportunities.

  2. 02

    Architect

    Design the right AWS target architecture and transformation roadmap.

  3. 03

    Build

    Implement the cloud, data, AI and security capabilities required.

  4. 04

    Secure

    Embed security, governance, resilience and compliance into the environment.

Business outcomes

What the business gains

Technical work only matters when it changes how the organisation performs.
  • 01

    Faster deployment

  • 02

    Better governance

  • 03

    Reduced operational risk

  • 04

    Improved visibility

  • 05

    Easier scaling

  • 06

    Stronger security foundation

AWS context

Built on AWS-native capability

Cloud & Infrastructure work at Analytics Hive is delivered on AWS and aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

  • AWS Organizations and Control Tower
  • Amazon VPC, Transit Gateway and Direct Connect
  • Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS and AWS Lambda
  • Amazon RDS, Aurora and Amazon S3
  • AWS CloudFormation, CDK and Terraform on AWS
  • Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Backup and Elastic Disaster Recovery
  • AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets and Compute Optimizer

Built around enterprise priorities

  • Security-first

    Protect workloads, identities and data with controls designed in from the start.

  • Scalable

    Architect AWS environments that grow with demand instead of constraining it.

  • Resilient

    Design for availability, continuity and tested recovery, not best-effort uptime.

  • Cost-conscious

    Optimise infrastructure spend without compromising performance or resilience.

Next step

Build My AWS Foundation

Design and build a secure, governed and scalable AWS foundation using AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles.

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