Regional Gardens Ltd: Cloud Computing Architecture and BCP Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of Regional Gardens Ltd's cloud computing adoption strategy, focusing on the transition to a hybrid cloud infrastructure. It discusses the benefits of cloud technology, such as increased high availability, flexibility, and scalability, while also addressing the associated risks. The report evaluates different cloud architectures, recommending Platform as a Service (PaaS) for its suitability in a hybrid cloud environment, highlighting its advantages in application development, deployment, and management. Furthermore, it identifies potential security risks, including lack of encryption and adequate Service Level Agreement (SLA) provisions, and proposes mitigation controls. The report also touches upon the importance of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

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Introduction:
Regional gardens Ltd is an organization which is associated with providing various kind of
services and is also associated with running a number of gardening enterprises. The organization
is also having a huge display garden and this is to be opened in order to conduct a public
inspection various number of times in a single year. Additionally the entire organization is
thinking of moving onto the adaptation of the cloud infrastructure for conducting all their
business processes. This is an exclusive decision which has been taken by Regional Gardens Ltd
for the purpose of moving their web services to the clouds in order to have an increase their level
of high availability. The adaptation of the cloud technology would also be helping the
organization I become much more flexible along with this scalability would also be increasing.
This would be helpin the orgaination Regional garden Ltd in order to supply the data to all the
employees as well as to the customers and this would be happening because of the fact that the
cloud can be sed for the purpose of accessing the data from anywhere and at any time. But along
with the benefits there also exists certain risks related to the usage of the hybrid cloud which is to
be mitigated by the adaptation of certain methods.
The report has been associated with outlining the brief discussion about the adaptation of the
cloud technology by the organization Regional Garden Ltd. Some detailed information has been
provided in this report about the way by which the organization regional garden ltd. would be
adopting the new technology. the report has also be discussing about the specific security risks
that might be faced by the organization regional garden ltd. Additionally the report also provides
a brief discussing about the BCP or the business continuity plan which is also to be adopted by
the organization. The report also provides an overview of the various cloud architectures for the
organization and from the arcitctures the most suitable architecture is to be identified for the

organization. The report would also be associated with providing some of the critical point or the
issues.
Discussion:
Cloud computing can be considered as an Information technology paradigm which is associated
with enabling the ubiquitous access to the pools of the configuration system resources which are
shared. Besides this it can also be provisioned in an easy way at a rapid rate with very little effort
of the management. This is done by making use of the internet. The cloud computing technology
is reliable of the resources which are shared for the purpose of achieving coherences and the
economics of scale that are almost similar to the public utility of the resources. Besides this the
third-party clouds are associated with enabling the organizations to focus upon the core business
rather than focusing on the expansion of the resources which includes the computer
infrastructure and the maintenance of that infrastructure. The cloud computing has been
associated with helping many of the companies to avoid the up-front costs related to the IT
infrastructure or for the purpose of minimizing the risks. The proponents has also been
associated with claiming the fact that the cloud computing is associated with helping the
organizations in the getting their applications up and faster which would be consisting of
increased rate or manageability by having a less amount of maintenance this would be initially
helping the organizations IT team to move at a rapid rate along with adjusting the resources for
the purpose of meeting the demands that are constantly fluctuating and are totally unpredicted.
Hybrid clouds is something which is the composition of two or more than two clouds which has
been associated with remaining as a distinct entity. However they have been bounded together
and are associated with providing various kind of benefits by having a multiple deployment

model. Hybrid cloud can also mean the ability to connect collocation, managed and/or dedicated
services with cloud resources.
Selecting the Right Cloud Infrastructure for the Hybrid cloud along with reason
Different type of cloud architectures exists in today’s world which are very important and
significant and this are associated with providing help regarding the management of various
processes that the organization is having. The cloud infrastructure that is to be selected which
would be helping the organization Regional garden Ltd in conducting their business processes.
There exists three different type of cloud architecture and this mainly includes the following:
 Infrastructure as a Service or the Iaas
 Software as a Service or the SaaS
 Platform as a Service or the PaaS
This cloud architectures ca be considered very much important for any kind of organization and
this is mainly due to the reason that they are associated with reducing the various type of
complexities at a high level. The organization Regional Garden Ltd. Has been thinking of
adapting the hybrid cloud model for their various business processes. So it is very much essential
for the organization to select such a cloud architecture which is very much suitable or the hybrid
cloud architecture that is going to be adopted by the organization Regional Garden Ltd. The
proposed cloud architecture that is to be chosen by the organization Regional Garden Ltd in
order to have a hybrid cloud is the PaaS or the Platform as a Service.
The PaaS or the Platform as a service can be considered as the platform based category that is
adopted by the different kind of cloud computing services that is generally responsible for the
providing of a platform which would be enabling the clients along with the customers to develop,

run and lastly manage the applications without any existence of the complexities for the purpose
of building and also to maintain the basic infrastructure that is generally required for the purpose
of developing the infrastructure and to launch the application. There exists three ways by which
the PaaS or the Platform as a Service can be delivered. This mainly includes the following:
 Typical public cloud service from the providers: In this the consumers are capable of
controlling the deployment of the software by having minimum number of options related
to configuration and also to provide the various networks along with the OS or the
operating system, storage and the servers.
 Secondly comes the delivering of the Platform as a Service which is generally a private
service and mainly includes the applications or software’s that would be existing within
the firewall
 The final method includes the software which is to be deployed over the private IaaS.
The reason lying behind the choosing of the PaaS or the Platform as a Service is that it could be
easily implemented within the hybrid cloud. Due to the fact that the organization Regional
Garden Ltd is thinking of shifting their business to the hybrid cloud and for them the PaaS would
be the appropriate one. One of the best example of the PaaS or the platform as a service is the
AWS or the Amazon Web Service. So the PaaS or the Platform as a Service is to be selected by
the organization.
2. Benefits and Issues for the Deployment of the Selected Cloud Architectures
The deployment of the selected cloud infrastructure would be associated with brining of various
kind of benefits along with issues for the Organization Regional Garden Ltd. Some of the major
benefits of the deployment of this infrastructure includes the following:

a. This is very fast: The major reason lying behind the adaptation of this PaaS infrastructure
or the Platform as a Service is that it is very faster than any other infrastructure. The
various types of applications would be working in a proper way by using the services
provided by this infrastructure. All the hybrid PaaS is subsequently associated with
simplifying the entire process which is related to the deployment of the application along
with the scaling and management are also checked by taking help from the PaaS.
Increment in the developer productivity would also be done in a proper way by making
use of this process.
b. Streamlining of the Application management: This can be considered as the second major
benefit of the deployment of this architecture. Proper streamlining of the application
management is done by the hybrid platform. All the hybrid clouds are associated with
streaming of the various application management which is very necessarily and all this
are to be done for the organization Regional Garden Ltd. As well. Additionally this has
also been associated with gaining a high rate of competitive advantage along with
accessing the IT infrastructure in a proper way.
c. Reduction of Complexities and Increment of Agility: This can be considered as an
another major advantage of the hybrid cloud platform as a service cloud architecture
which is associated with helping in the process of reduction of the various type of
complexities to a level which is very high along with the increase in the agility which is
also incremented eventually. Besides this the inheritable cloud architecture is checked for
the purpose of validating this phenomenon. So there is an essential need of checking this
in a proper way.

d. Cost Effective: The major advantage of the Hybrid PaaS is that it is very much cost
effective and for this reason the hybrid platform would be helping the organization
Regional garden Ltd. For this reason it could be used by anyone.
Despite of having various kind of advantages there exists several type of risks which are
very vulnerable for the hybrid PaaS model and the major risks have been listed below:
i) BCP or Business Continuity Plan and DR or Disaster Recovery: This can be considered as
the first and the foremost disadvantage which the hybrid PaaS cloud architecture model is having
and is to be faced by the organization Regional Gardens Ltd. The business continuity planning
and disaster recovery with the vendor is considered as an important factor which would be
helping the organization Regional Garden Ltd. But this feature is not present in the cloud
architecture model which has been selected for this organization.
ii) Lack of SSDLC: Lack of SSDLC or the Secure Software Development Process Life Cycle
can be considered as another major risk that exists within the cloud architecture model of hybrid
PaaS. And because of the absence of secure software development process life cycle or SSLC,
certain insecure codes have been occurring within the architecture model.
iii) Lack of Adequate Provisions in SLA: Another major risk that the hybrid PaaS cloud
architecture model is that it lacks in the sufficient provisions in SLA. This lack in the SLA would
be generally concerned regarding the users cloud and for this reason the organization Regional
Gardens Ltd can be greatly affected in the process.

3. Risks Associated with Hybrid Cloud and Micro services Strategy with their
Controls
The vulnerabilities that are faced by the hybrid cloud and the micro services strategy
mainly includes the security risks and threats for the organization would be facing. Additionally,
the risks and threats would be easily mitigated by taking help from the various mitigation
controls. The several risks or threats that are vulnerable for the hybrid cloud and the micro
services strategy with the mitigation and security controls are given below:
Security Risks
or Threats
Description of the Risks Mitigation or Control of the
Risks
Lack of
Encryption
This can be considered as one of the
major dangerous security risk that are
faced by the hybrid cloud and the micro
services strategy. The transmission of
the network is very vulnerable for every
organizations and this includes attacks
like the eavesdropping attacks which is
generally done by impersonating the
endpoints. The encryption process
includes two types of algorithms and
this includes the symmetric key and
asymmetric key algorithms.
There is only one way of
controlling and fixing the
problems that arise due to lack
of encryption and this is to be
done by providng a shield to the
transmission in order to protect
the transmission form different
kind of atatcks that includes the
cryptographic protocols. This is
generally associated with
including endpoint
authentication. Another way of
mitigating this problems is by
the employment of a reliable

VPN.
Inadequate
Security Risk
Assessment
Inadequate security risks assessments
can be considered as the second
important security risk or threat. The
main reason for this problem is due to
the fact that the administrators of the
network are not capable of determining
the ways by which and where the
intrusions would be occurring.
Moreover, the future breaches could not
be prevented easily.
Mitigation of this type of
security risk or the threat can be
done by the adaptation of the
proper risk prevention and
assessment. It is very much
essential for the IDS or IPS
systems to scan in order to
detect the malicious traffic or
activities.
Weak Security
Management
Due to the lack of authentication which
is another major risk that exists in the
hybrid cloud and micro services
strategy. The main reason lying behind
the occurrence of this problem is due to
the lack of protocol integration in this
type of cloud.
The easiest way that can be
adopted for the purpose of
mitigating this type of issue is
by replicating the various
controls. Besides this there is a
need of proper synchronization
of security of the data which
would be helping in mitigation
of the risks in a proper way.
Poor Data
Redundancy
This is another important and significant
security risk or threat which is the poor
data redundancy. Due to the lack of
There is an essential need of
implementing the redundancy
which is to be done by making

redundancy the hybrid IT cloud are
subsequently put in front of the major
risk due to this reason there is an
essential need of distributing the data.
use of multiple data centres from
any one cloud provider. Besides
this it could also be
implemented from various
providers of public cloud.
Failure in
Authentication
and
Identification
One of the major security risk or threat
in the hybrid cloud and micro services
strategy that is to be deployed in the
organization Regional Gardens Ltd is
the failure of the proper authentication
and identification techniques.
This kind of issues can be fixed
in an easy way by proper
monitoring and verification of
every access permission. This
can also be done by
synchronizing the data security.
Denial of
Service Attacks
The attacker or the hackers are mainly
associated with making use of the
machine or system so as to make the
completely unavailable to the authorized
users and this is initially associated with
preventing the users from access the
shared resources which mainly includes
the RAM or CPU in a proper way.
Additionally the attackers is also
capable of effecting the network
bandwidth.
The denial of service or DoS
attacks can be mitigated in an
easy way by taking help from
the flow analytics. This would
initially be acting to react
against the various incursion
which would be then redirecting
the traffic to the device
responsible for mitigation.
Lack of The hybrid clouds are in need of the The only method to mitigate this

Compliance diligence, especially when the topic of
compliance is taken into account. It is
very much difficult to maintain and
demonstrate the compliance of the
hybrid cloud and this mainly happens
due to the movement of the data back
and forth.
particular problem is by
coordinating the two clouds
properly and the private and the
public cloud could be easily kept
in compliance.
Failure of
creating
Communicatio
n with the
Cloud Provider
One of the major significant security
risk or threat to the hybrid cloud and
micro services strategy is the failure of
communication. The cloud vendors are
to be vetted for the security controls
while they are associated with handling
the data.
This type of security risk or
threat could be mitigated by the
verification of data ownership as
well as security. The vendors of
the hybrid cloud do not have the
ability in providing reasonable
ownership expectations.
4. Various steps of information security and measures to secure hybrid cloud:
The information security is regarded as the practice for preventing different kinds of
unauthorized access, recording, destruction, using disclosing and modification of data. In the
following discussion the steps and controls of security of hybrid cloud are demonstrated.
Security from high threats:
Here, for Regional Gardens the initial, the initial step is to properly secure hybrid cloud.
Here, storages, computing environments and the network is needed to be protected sufficiently

from different kinds of advanced threats (Thota et al., 2018). These advanced threats have been
eventually referring to different kinds of harmful attacks coming from different parts of the
world. Further, the attacks have been turning out be an important problem for Regional Gardens.
This is because they were dealing with them in the hybrid cloud and information systems.
Moreover, security from these advanced threats has been an important and significant
requirement to the hybrid cloud. In this way this has been the initial step for the business to
secure the hybrid cloud eventually.
Security scaling:
It has been another vital step towards securing information to secure the hybrid cloud
perfectly.

Keeping the cost of operations lower:
Here the operational costs must be checked and placed at the lower level for the
development of the company. This is helpful to achieve the organizational benefits. The
operational costs can be lessened through decreasing various complexities (Li et al., 2017).
Getting different optimized security:
It is another vital step towards control and security that has been needed to be optimized.
These hybrid deployments and various virtual environments have needed the optimization of
networks. This should be checked properly. Further the primary strategies of mitigation are to be
done. Moreover, this security optimization has been highly vital for organizations. In this way
the company can take up this step within their business.
Gaining visibility:
Here, the data is to be protected in such a way that the data shortage never makes any
difference within the phenomenon. Because of this visibility, the security team of IT must be
noticing every vulnerabilities or threats under Regional Gardens. In this way they must mitigate
every threat and risk for the company. This has been eventually for increasing the security and is
regarded as one of the best measures (Magoutis et al., 2015).
However, business of Regional Gardens must keep in mind, that despite the hype across
cloud storages, it has been facing complexities as they have been going through various
commercial uptakes. This has included concerns over various speed of accessing, latency and
fears around data portability, compliances and securities.

5. Business Continuity Planning:
The business continuity planning has been typically indicating Regional Gardens to
typically continue with operations in case of various disasters like fires. However, it has been not
been efficient when any large portion gets affected like the case of disease outbreak. For this
Regional Gardens must be conducting business impact analysis for identifying various critical
business functions and time-sensitive processes with various resources to support them. Next
they should determine, document and deploy for recovering critical business processes and
functions. Moreover, Regional Gardens must be conducting training for their business recovery
strategies and plans.
This is the successful development of strategies with identifying various threats and risks
faced by Regional Gardens. This must ensure that all the personnel and assts are secured and safe
and possess the capability of functioning disasters (Fulmer, 2015). The planning has been
involving various vital risks that have been determining processes of risks. It has been affecting
all the operations of the businesses. Different securities are also implemented in the process and
the methods are designed for mitigating all the security risks. Next the processes are to be tested
properly ensuring that those processes are been updated. Moreover, regional gardens should be
developing particular BCP into their business to decrease various application resilience and
disaster recovery. Here, the steps towards BCP are highlighted (Turulja, & Bajgoric, 2018).
The first step is to conduct the “Business Impact Analysis” to perfectly identify the time
sensitivity and various critical business resources and processes supporting every process.
Further, the next important step of BCP has been properly identify, document and
implement various security measures for properly recovering the threats.

Then the third significant step is to perfectly organize the business continuity team and
lastly compile BCP for managing business disruption properly.
The last step has to undergo through training of business continuity team and testing for
evaluating planning and strategies. Here, different problems have been related to resilience of the
application, DR and backup and recovering disasters within hybrid cloud environments
(Magoutis et al., 2015).
The various challenges are identified below.
Slowly adopting cloud:
Here the data security has been challenged. Because of the adoption of cloud,
conventional storage of data has been targeted and it is also resolved. In this way the BCP has
been easily solving the problems instead of any complexities (Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri,
2015).
Slowing recoveries:
Here, the BCP is helpful for the specific case of Regional Gardens. This is because it has
comprised every kind of controls.
Lack of scalability and reliability:
Here the security measures have been present under the environments of cloud. This
reliability of the cloud has been higher.
6. Remote Server Administration, Resource Management and SLA Management:
Here there have been several of requirements for administration of remote servers for
Regional Gardens. Further, the most important tool for remote server administration are the

Windows PowerShell cmdlets, Microsoft Management Console or mmc snap ins, Server
Manager and consoles. The remote server administration has been conducted primarily for PaaS
and IaaS eventually. For this reason the resource management, the most important necessities has
been the shared resources (Lu et al., 2016). It has been highly vital for PaaS and IaaS and the
requirements of SLA management has been the services and cloud services. This service level
agreements has been helping users to control every cloud resources and services properly under
PaaS and IaaS. Further, this negotiation of SLA has been also done in subsequent manner.
Remote Server Administration:
The Remote Server Administration for Regional Gardens has been helpful to run various
snap-ins and tools over remote computers for managing role services, roles and features. This
software has been including tools for clustering various updating, that has included Group Policy
Management as well best practices analyzers (Wu, Garg & Buyya, 2015).
Resource Management:
As far a resource management is considered, the processes at the resources are possible
through most effective way. Here the resources have been including tangible resources like
labour resources, financial resources, equipments and good and many more. Further, the resource
management has been including concepts like assuring that sufficient physical resources have
been for the business. However, this has been the overabundance such the products has not been
used. Moreover, they must assure that the individuals at Regional Gardens have been assigned to
various activities to keep them busy and not to have much downtime. As this often used
regarding the project management, it has applicable to various sectors of business management.
This small business has been applicable to various other sectors of business management. Here,

business has been paying attention to resource management in various areas. The first one is
finance (Garg et al., 2014). Here, regional gardens have needed to meet expenses for affording
the investments over staff training and new equipments. The next one is staffing. Here, they must
determine whether they have the proper people for various works in hand. This should also
involve the necessity to hire whether they have been getting proper client and what skills are to
be possessed by people. Next it has included physical space. They must determine whether the
manufacturing of space and office of the company has been configured such that various other
resources are been managed to retrieve most of the efficiency. Next it includes the equipments
where various tools are needed to be determined. The last one is technology. Here, the business
necessities are to be included for getting success and financial resources that are reallocated to
fund what has been missing.
Service Level Management:
This is helpful for Regional Gardens to make contracts between various service providers and
external and internal customers that has been documenting what services the providers has been
furnishing and defining the performance standards that the providers has been obligated to meet.
The SLAs has been establishing customer expectations as per the performance of service
providers are considered as the quality in various ways. Here the metrics has been specifically
including uptimes and availabilities that have included percentages of time that are needed to be
available (Ali, Khan & Vasilakos, 2015). It has included particular performance benchmarks to
actual performances that can be compared timely. Further, it has involves application response
time, schedule for notification in advancing network changes affecting users, various help desk
response times for different classes of problems, usage statistics that are needed to delivered. The
SLA has been specifying various parameters, performances and availabilities for various kinds of

customer infrastructures that has included internal servers, networks and infrastructure
components like uninterruptable power supplies.
7. Migration to AWS platform
After analyzing the current structure and component of the Regional Gardens Limited it has been
found that the company is facing serious level issues due to their weak operational and functional
platform. It is the role of the company owners and other project team members to make sure that
the outcome of the company are meeting the expectation of the consumers. There are many
strategies and approaches available in the market those are to be followed by the employees and
managers to adopt the cloud platform. Time and values these are the two main constraints
followed for adopting the cloud platform. It has been found that there are some cases where the
IT professionals contemplate huge legacy migration on the isolation. However, it has been found
that the migrations are basically, part of the large enterprise transformation efforts. There are five
major phases those are to be followed by the project developers while migrating to the AWS
cloud platform. The phases are as follows:
Migration preparation and business planning: This is the first phase of the cloud platform
migration. It is necessary for the project manager and the project team members of Regional
Gardens Ltd to consider theses phases accordingly. In this phase the project objectives are
determined and the issues for which the company is required to adopt the change are analyzed
professionally. After developing the project objectives, a plot or idea is developed based on the
expected benefits that may generate from the project. Some foundational experiences and a
preliminary business case are needed to be considered before implementing the platform
migration. This phase requires the taking of the objectives into account. The issues of the
existing application and the constraints will be completely mitigated with the application and

implementation of the AWS cloud platform. In order to meet the requirements and the
expectation of the system this business planning should be prepared properly.
Portfolio discovery and planning: Portfolio discovery and planning is the second phase of the
migration of the cloud platform. There are three different architectures of cloud platform are
available such as platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, software as a service. Based
on the objectives and requirements of the project the project developer should consider the most
suitable cloud architecture or Regional Gardens Ltd. In these steps the project developers and
the project team members are required to understand the IT portfolio. In this phase all types of
migration strategies are required to be followed by the project manager. It shows the internal
relationship between the applications. After analyzing all the strategies the most suitable
migration strategic should be adopted by Regional Gardens Ltd in order to meet the business
case objectives. In order to develop the full business case this IT portfolio discovery and the
planning s very mush important. As the application details offers by the Amazon Web server is
not simple one thus issues may rise while understanding the IT portfolio. The developers have an
option to take help from the partners such as RISC network, cloudamize, AWS application
discovery service, atadata etc.
Application design: Application designing, migration, validation of the applications are the
third phase of project development. It s the role of the project manager and the project team
members to take proper actions so that the without any issue, the migration is found to be done.
In this phase the portfolio level moves towards the applications that have been designed, migrate
and validated as well. The project team members should took serious level of concentration on
each of the applications associated to it. Professional technical training and development
program is required to be arranged by the company so that the developers can gain technical

ideas on cloud platform migration. The cloud platform migration approach does not end up with
the design and implementation. Rather the migration that has been designed is appropriate or not
is also illustrated with proper validation program. It is the role of the project manager. The
Regional Gardens Ltd should take necessary validation strategies so that the application becomes
much easier from the users end. The cloud platform gives wide range of location or storage
capacity to the company. The high capacity of the system storage will be able to store huge
information. The three other application level benefits that are offered by the system include
application resilience, disaster recovery and back up storage.
According to the design approach developed by Regional Gardens Ltd, it has been found that, if
any information hijacked or destroyed from the storage then with the help of the disaster
recovery mechanism the information can be retrieved accordingly. there are six common
migration strategies are available in the market that implies Rehosting, replatform, repurchase,
refactor, retire and reyain.
Operating the design:
The adoption and validation is not the end of the migration strategies for Regional Gardens Ltd,
rather it is necessary for the company to operate the newly migrated platform properly. It will
help the company to gain competitive advantages and additionally commercial revenue as well.
A the AWS platform is comprise of different new technologies thus the company is required to
arrange proper training and development program for the employees who are working I the
organization. It is expected that with the help of proper operation the issues that the company
was facing in their current situation will be completely avoided.

8. Issues associated to the steps
Technology always gives wide range of opportunities to the users but at the same time it holds
certain serious issues those are needed to be mitigated accordingly by the project team members
for mitigating the issues. The common challenges or issues those are facing by the company
while migrating from one platform to another are as follows:
Security challenge: Security is referred to as serious challenge that affects the cloud platform
migration. It has been found that, if proper security approaches are not undertake by the
company then during migration credentials may get hijacked by the external attackers. It is the
responsibility of the project manager and the project team members to take proper security
measures in terms of encryption and firewall so that none of the external attackers will be able to
access data from the storage server. With the firewall application the transmission channel will
keep security and none of the external attackers will be able to access data from the server. The
requirement of the cloud platform should be properly arranged by the project manager so that the
issues can be mitigated.
Issues with planning: It is necessary for the project manager to adopt all necessary steps to
avoid the planning level issues. It is the responsibility. It is the responsibility of the project
manager and the project team members to take necessary actions during the project planning
phase. The project team members should have necessary skills and ideas about the IT portfolio
so that the issues of project management can be easily managed. Modification in the architecture
of the cloud service is another important thing that has to be considered successfully for the
secured implementation of the platform.

Designing application issues: Before the implementation of the platform it is necessary for the
developers to create the application plan appropriately. It is the role of the project manager and
the project team members to take necessary steps so that the application can be designed
appropriately. Before migration to the AWS platform the designers must designed the
architecture in such a way so that it can avoid all major issues. Roper service level agreement
rather SLA level guidelines should be followed by the designers to mitigate the issues. It has
been found that, planning for the migration is the very important part of project management and
project development. Again of the project team members are found to be less skilled then in this
phase also serious level issues may arise.
Validation issues: The four major phases those are required to be managed and applied by the
project team members include initiation planning, design, implementation, testing, execution and
closure. It is the role of the project manager to apply proper verification and validation
approaches in terms of testing so that the project manager and the project team members can
come to known about whether the project migration will be error free will not.
Operational issue: If the project manager and the project team members working in Regional
Gardens Ltd fail to adopt necessary actions on the cloud service operation then the company and
the consumers will collectively face major issues. If somehow it is highlighted that the wrong
operations are implemented by the cloud platform then the entire project outcome will be a
failure.
Conclusion
From the overall discussion it can be concluded that with the help of proper cloud platform the
company will be able to develop an automated system for their consumers with structure

automation support activities. The Regional Gardens Ltd runs a number of related gardening
enterprises. The company has a large number of display gardens those are open to the public
inspections. The enterprise includes the Regional Gardens Ltd nursery and sells a number of
plants. Regional Gardens Ltd has a data center that is used by the company for managing their
large set of data. However, the existing operational and functional activities follows by the
company is very weak. The server used by the company is not well structured. Thus in order to
manage the data centre of the company it is necessary for the company to migrate their platform
from the existing one to a specific cloud service providers. Many cloud vendors are available in
the market and based on the requirements and the functionalities of the company it has been
found that that the company should adopt the Amazon Web Server cloud vendor. The way
through which the cloud vendor will be selected, the benefits and challenges of the cloud service
providers are also elaborated in this report. For this particular project the Infrastructure as service
(IaaS) cloud architecture should be undertaken by the project manager for developing the project
successfully. The operational abilities that the company may gain from this application are also
elaborated successfully in this report. Apart from this, the risks associated to the hybrid cloud,
and steps to be followed for planning the information security are also elaborated in this report.
In addition to this, the steps those are to be followed for migrating from the existing system to
the AWS cloud platform are also illustrated in this report. Though platform migration is not an
easy step the issues associated to this phase are also those are also elaborated in this report.
After migrating to the AWS cloud platform the benefits that Regional Gardens Ltd may get are
also illustrated in this report.

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