AWS Practice

We deliver transformative mission enabling solutions using AWS

AWS is a market leading FedRAMP authorized cloud service provider adopted by many government and defense agencies to modernize their legacy systems and lower TCO. AWS offers a wide variety of Infrastructure as-a Service and Platform as-a Service solutions though its US East/West, GovCloud and Secret regions.
Ironclad’s security-first approach focuses on modernizing agency applications as part of the migration process. Right from inception, we explore opportunities to refactor applications and deploy them as containers on serverless services and transition the agency to continuous delivery and continuous deployment model. We maximize the entire breadth of services offered by AWS to operationalize new and innovative capabilities, reduce cost and accelerate mission execution.

As an AWS Partner, Ironclad is committed to building and growing our expertise in AWS and driving customer success through best practices and continuous innovation. We empower our staff with training and learning resources and help them secure AWS certifications.

Approach

We employ a methodical stepwise approach to adopt and integrate AWS at enterprise scale in your agency. We start by conducting a detailed assessment of your agency’s portfolio of applications that will drive our migration strategy and approach. By designing security and investing in automation from inception, we accelerate migration and security compliance.

Our services include

Cloud Migration Readiness & Assessment
Cloud Architecture & Planning
AWS General Support System
Cloud Implementation & Operations
Cloud Security & Compliance
DevSecOps Automation
Managed Cloud Services

Methods & Techniques

AWS Landing Zone & Organizations
Serverless & Containers
Infrastructure as Code & Pipeline Automation
Security Compliance as Code
Integrated Machine Learning
Blue-Green and Canary Deployments

Mission Benefits

Improved performance and mission agility
Lower total cost of ownership
Insights for better decision making
Secure and resilient systems
Faster and efficient mission execution

AWS Services

We leverage the entire portfolio of FedRAMP authorized services available on AWS US East/West, GovCloud and C2S to continuously deliver value to our customers.

Compute - EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling, Lambda
Database - Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, Database Migration Service
Storage - EFS, EBS, S3, S3 Glacier, Backup
Application Integration - AWS Step Functions, SQS, SNS
Containers - ECS, EKS, Fargate
Developer Tools - CDK, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeStar, CLI, X-Ray
Networking - Transit Gateway, ALB/ELBs, Virtual Private Gateway
Analytics & Machine Learning - Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, Quicksight, SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend
Cost Management - AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, RI Reporting, Cost and Usage Report
Customer Engagement - Simple Email Service
Security, Identity and Compliance - IAM, Cognito, Artifact, Certificate Manager, KMS, Directory Service, WAF
Management & Governance - CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Config, Systems Manager

Case Study

Modernizing and migrating major defense agency’s financial management system to the Cloud

By modernizing and migrating this defense agency’s critical financial management system to the cloud, Ironclad critically helped the agency achieve audit-readiness, successfully process over $35B worth of financial transactions each year and continuously maintain Authority to Operate (ATO).