Cloud303 Cuts Down Conducted Review-Time by 50% with AWS Partner ASecureCloud

Cloud303 is a fast-growing consulting company with extensive experience conducting Well-Architected Framework Reviews from hundreds of successful projects a year. The company looked to continue scaling at this rate, while helping to improve the customer experience by reducing the time to conduct Well-Architected Framework reviews, but there were few automation tools that had full integration with the Well-Architected Tool. AWS Partner ASecureCloud's platform helped Cloud303 deliver results faster for customers and generating templates to remediate findings and apply recommendations. This enabled their engineers to spend more time working with customers on aspects such as optimizing cloud spend and application best practices.

As Cloud303 scaled its operations to deliver hundreds of Well-Architected reviews a year, they developed internal tools and playbooks to automate discovery and building reports. But some tasks such as in-depth security reviews of customers' environments and filling out Well-Architected questions after discovery sessions with customers remained timeconsuming.

Many products on the market lack the full integration capabilities with the AWS Well-Architected tool, and this was a main requirement for Cloud303 as they evaluated possible solutions. It was critical for Cloud303 that it can automate the process of filling out and updating the Well-Architected questionnaire as they worked with their customers to apply recommendations and fixes to the environment.

ASecureCloud's Automated Well-Architected Reviews cuts down the time significantly for completing the Well-Architected questions in both technical and non-technical pillars.

ASecureCloud’s platform uses the customer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment data (captured through automated scanning) to auto-populate suggestions for the various technical questions (e.g. state of encrypted resources, cost budgets definitions, etc.). The platform's AI-powered capabilities use the information captured during the customer discovery sessions with the Cloud303 consultants to automatically map their notes (in natural language) into the appropriate Well-Architected questions and choices.

The consultant then uploads the completed Well-Architected workload review into the customer's AWS account along with notes and other details as required. Milestones can be created directly from ASecureCloud's interface to track progress over time.

ASecureCloud’s offers its solution through as a public SaaS or its Private Portal offering. The private portal provides a dedicated and private environment for consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that enables them to offer a unique experience for their clients.

The Private Portal offering includes all available features such as automated Well-Architected reviews, continuous security and compliance monitoring, and configuration and remediation templates. It also includes customization options such as custom branding, SSO integration and custom security settings when required.

Private Portal customers have access to an administrator dashboard to onboard and manage their own internal and external clients.

ASecureCloud’s solution helped cut down engagement time by 50% and is now an integral part of the Cloud303 Well-Architected process. The onboarding process for customers is also shortened with automated assessments that are completed and have reports available in less than 15 minutes.

With scheduled assessments, Cloud303 offers continuous monitoring of customers’ environments to ensure they remain within the AWS Well-Architected framework as they continue to build on AWS. In addition to Well-Architected reviews, Cloud303 utilizes ASecureCloud to offer more value-add services such as compliance reports and overall application architecture reviews.

ASecureCloud also reduces the time to generate infrastructure-as-code templates for implementing recommendations based on the WellArchitected reviews and Cloud303 assessments. Templates can be generated in minutes, customized for each customer environment, and Cloud303 consultants can select from over 800 configuration templates available in CloudFormation, Terraform and AWS CLI. The templates are deployed by the client into their environment and integrated into their CI/CD pipelines (Which Cloud303 often helps customers implement).