01.

What is AWS Cloud Optimisation? 

AWS Cloud Optimisation involves refining your cloud infrastructure to enhance performance, reduce costs, and improve security. This process includes right-sizing resources, implementing auto-scaling, and adopting modern architectures like containerisation to ensure your AWS environment operates efficiently

02.

How can Habitat3 assist with AWS Cloud Optimisation?

Habitat3 offers comprehensive services to optimise and modernise your AWS infrastructure, focusing on:

• Cloud Architecture: Utilising auto-scaling, load-balancing, high-availability services, and multi-tier architectures to enhance security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Security Best Practices: Implementing AWS Landing Zones based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Security Pillar to establish a robust security foundation.

• Cost and Performance Optimisation: Ensuring cost-effectiveness through right-sizing, scheduled instance resizing, auto-scaling, and budget alerts.

• Modernisation: Transitioning from monolithic to multi-tier or server-based to serverless/containerised architectures to support business growth.

• Backups & Disaster Recovery: Setting Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to meet your requirements.

• Managed Cloud Services: Providing 24/7 monitoring, auto-remediation, proactive security patching, and reactive client support.

03.

What are the benefits of optimising and modernising on AWS? 

• Cost Efficiency: AWS's pay-as-you-go pricing, combined with auto-scaling, right-sizing, savings plans, and reserved instances, helps reduce costs.

• Scalability: AWS enables applications to scale based on demand, and modernising workloads maximises scalability capabilities.

• Increased Performance: Leveraging the latest AWS services and technologies, such as Graviton processors and faster storage solutions, enhances performance.

• Agility & Innovation: AWS tools facilitate faster development and deployment through CI/CD pipelines and containerisation.

• Security & Compliance: Modernising on AWS helps maintain robust security standards and simplifies compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA.

• Flexibility & Variety: AWS's extensive ecosystem of services allows for seamless integration to enhance existing applications or develop new ones.

• Global Reach & Availability: AWS's multiple availability zones and regions enable highly available, low-latency solutions.

• Automation & DevOps: AWS supports automation through Infrastructure as Code, reducing manual errors and improving efficiency.

04.

How does Habitat3 ensure the security of my AWS environment during optimisation? 

Habitat3 implements comprehensive security measures, including:

• AWS Landing Zone Deployment: Establishing a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Security Pillar.

• Identity and Access Management: Utilising AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to your cloud infrastructure.

• Monitoring and Compliance: Implementing monitoring tools and compliance checks to maintain security standards.

05.

Can Habitat3 assist with ongoing management after optimisation? 

Yes, Habitat3 offers Managed Cloud Services that include:

• 24/7 Monitoring and Auto-Remediation: Continuous monitoring and automated remediation to ensure your cloud infrastructure operates as expected.

• Proactive Security Patching: Regular updates to maintain the security and integrity of your environment.

• Reactive Client Support: Providing support to address any issues or concerns promptly.

06.

Does Habitat3 have experience with AWS Cloud Optimisation?

​Absolutely. For example, Habitat3 rapidly migrated and optimised the web-hosting environment for CoLab Lighting, a premium lighting manufacturer. The project enabled CoLab to take full control of their hosting, including a staging site for testing new features and client feedback, ensuring an optimised cloud environment for managing their website and cloud infrastructure.