Cloud Computing: Proposed Architectures, Risk Report, and Information Security Controls

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Proposed Architectures for a Hybrid Cloud....................................................................................4
Risk report for Hybrid Cloud and Micro services...........................................................................6
Proposed Information Security controls..........................................................................................9
Recommendation for Metasoft..................................................................................................12
BCP Changes.................................................................................................................................13
Hybrid Cloud Administration and SLA Management...................................................................15
SharePoint Migration Planning......................................................................................................17
Critical point and issues.............................................................................................................18
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................20
References......................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction
The concept of cloud computing is one of the domain of the technology which is playing
an important role. The technology is directly impacting the overall sector of operation which is
relate to the working of different kind of organisation. In majority of the cases it can be seen that
the organisation tries to indulge into the concept of the clod computing due to the different forms
of advantage which is gained from the it. The main sector of the advantage is that the concept
takes control over the vital aspect of the working of the organisation so that the organisation can
concentrate of different vital internal activity. In recent times it can be stated that above from the
different advantage sector there are different forms of risk factor associated within the working.
The main sector of the disadvantage mainly come in different forms which can be easily be
indulged into and mitigation plan can be easily be implemented within the technology which
would be making the technology more adoptable (Hilbrich, Petrlic & Becker,2015). There are
different sorts of implementation details which should be focused and within the working of the
technology there are different infrastructure which are available, it should be the role of the
organisation to take into consideration different aspect and role which they want the concept of
the cloud computing to be playing within the organisation. Physical and dynamic aspect of the
working of the concept of the cloud computing can be one of the implementation sector details
for an organisation trying to adopt to the cloud computing scenario is also one of the focus point
of the report.
The main focus point of the report is to indulge into the different working which is
related to the concept of cloud computing. Metasoft is one of the organisation which is planning
to move to the concept of cloud computing, in the report the main implementation details which
is related to the sector of adaptation of the concept for the organisation is taken into focus. In the

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stages of implementation there can be different types of risk factor which are discussed in te
report and the mitigation plan which can be adopted by the organisation are also taken into
consideration which would be involving a proper adaptation process involving les security risk
involved in it.
Proposed Architectures for a Hybrid Cloud
The proposed architecture for the MetaSoft ltd which deals with the sector of software
development would be the Amazon web service. The concept of the hybrid cloud can be directly
related to the aspect of the allocation of the on premise resources with the resources of the cloud.
Organisations who adopt the concept of the on premise technology directly invest in the sector of
the hybrid cloud which is a primary requirement relating to the cloud adaptation. The concept
relating to the migration of the legacy can be stated to be involving some form of time concept
involved into the approach (Fang & Zhang, 2016). One of the important point which should be
considered is the selection of the cloud providers who would be helping the organisation to
utilize different resources which are available within the concept of the hybrid cloud. The
important consideration which can be focused in the sector of the implementation of the hybrid
cloud without the need relating to the cost investment in the sector of the on premise software
and hardware (Hilbrich, Petrlic & Becker,2015). The AWS can be very much beneficial in the
sector of the closely working with the need of the organisation. some of the benefit which can be
seen in the sector of the implementation of the propose architecture are stated below:
 Complete control: The organisation would be having the overall control of the different
features of the concept of the cloud computing. The organisation can directly root the
access to each one of them and the interaction with the system would be done. The
feature which is related to the concept can be stopped while directly retaining the data

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which would be residing in the boot partition. Then the same sequence can be started
again by the same instance using the web service APIs. The instances can be directly
rebooted using the web service APIs.
 Integrated: The concept of the AWS can easily get nitrated with the different working of
the organisation which can be related to the overall sector of implementation (Fang &
Zhang, 2016). Some of the aspects which can be directly be linked to the aspect can be in
the sector of the amazon simple storage service, amazon virtual private network, amazon
relational database service which directly provides a secure solution of computing,
processing f query and the cloud storage across an application which has a wide range of
service.
 Security: The data which would be stored in the concept of the AWS would be very
much secured. In the organisation which focused which is the MetaSoft, the
implementation of the AWS would be removing the burden which is related to the
protection mechanism which should be implemented within the data. The security of the
data of the organisation which would be saved in the concept would be provided from the
end of the service providers and the organisation can directly deal with different other
important factors.
 Access: The data which would be stored within the concept of the AWS can be directly
be accessed at any time. This mainly means the with regards to the security the data can
be available to the organisation when they would be needing the data (Hilbrich, Petrlic &
Becker,2015). This can be stated as one of the major advantage which is related to the
implementation of the AWS. It can be stated that if the data is not accessed and retrieved
during the need of the organisation it can be a major problem which is mainly taken into

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focus by the AWS so that the retrival of the data within the concept would be not
involving time constraint. On the other hand, the quality of the data which would be
retrieved from the AWS would be maintained so that there are no problem relating to the
distribution of the data.
Risk report for Hybrid Cloud and Micro services
There can be different types of risk factor which can be included into the concept of the
working of the hybrid and the micro services. The main aim of the sector is to disrupt the normal
functionality which is related to the concept. The risk factors which are related to the concept can
be discussed with the help of a tabular form which would be affectively discussing all the sectors
of risk which is related to the concept. The table given below describes all the risk factor which
is involved into the concept which can be affecting the sector of operation which is related to the
concept.
Hybrid cloud Micro service strategy
Cloud security Security
Loss of overall control of the data Synchronization of the data.
Discovery Compliance
Management of the data Testing
Latency and bandwidth Monitoring
Failure and disaster recovery Data staleness
Architecture design of the IT Logging and debugging