LocalGov Drupal can reduce the cost of building new council websites by up to 80%, coupled with the industry's best performance, security, and running costs provided by AWS cloud infrastructure. Our FastStart product allows councils to understand how to capitalise on the benefits of LocalGov Drupal on AWS and allow outcomes to be focused on content and delivery, removing the pain points from on premise hardware management and CRM management.

Exploring LocalGov Drupal and AWS in confidence

The FastStart for LocalGov Drupal is designed as a proof-of-concept service with funding from AWS to accelerate your decision to realise the benefits of LocalGov Drupal on AWS, these include:

• Greater autonomy, faster deployments, and a collaborative community to solve problems for better user-led websites
• Sharing experience, improve service delivery, saving public money
• Automated deployment of infrastructure to ensure repeatable, and best-practice architecture
• Get hands on training on AWS, understanding how to deploy LocalGov Drupal onto AWS
• Get four weeks of support as you test out LocalGov Drupal on AWS
• Fully understand AWS costs, managing your environment, and getting the most out of the services AWS provides

Funding to assist your journey

CirrusHQ will assist you to apply for AWS funding to support this project and cost of delivery. Please contact us to find out more about this approach.

Established FastStart product service

The program will cover the following phases to ensure you gain the most from the proof-of-concept

Program setup and design phase:

1. An initial call to discuss success criteria and your requirements in detail

Build and deployment phase: 2. CirrusHQ will build your solution for you 3. Workshop with your team to deep dive into the solution

Trial period phase: 4. Get hands-on as you get access to the solution 5. Additional workshop available if extra assistance is needed 6. Four weeks of hands-on access to trial the solution and any additional support

At the end of the trial period, results of the programme are reviewed with a CirrusHQ consultant and the trial can be ended, or moved into a potential production service.

Understanding how to deliver LocalGov Drupal on AWS is now fully achievable, with a full proof-of-concept service you can now fully realise the benefits of the product. Please contact CirrusHQ to understand how you can take advantage of this product.

Building confidence in utilising AWS and Drupal is paramount to the success of the program, once completed, CirrusHQ offer a range of services to transform the proof-of-concept into a fully production ready solution, we can help with:

• AWS account billing
• Go-live requirements, including monitoring, scaling, DNS, cut-over planning, and security
• Ongoing Managed support for your AWS environment