Cloud Brokerage Services
IT-CNP delivers secure, compliant IaaS for government workloads on our own GovDataHosting Cloud Platform or AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. As a cloud service broker, we act as an intermediary between organizations who need cloud services and cloud service providers, while adding value such as predictive cost analysis and security compliance. We provide as much or as little cloud support as needed, empowering federal and state agencies as well as government contractors to free up resources and focus on innovation and mission success.
Support for Self-Service Cloud Customers
Customers wishing to provision and perform their own cloud configuration and management can leverage our partnership with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and GovDataHosting Cloud Platform to provision their cloud accounts at a discounted rate. While self-service customers expect to perform all their own cloud management work, our expert level cloud support team always stands ready to provide ad-hoc support on an hourly basis as requested for advanced questions, complex cloud resource configurations or security audit artifact collection assistance.
Benefits of our Cloud Brokerage
- Ad-Hoc Cloud Domain Expertise and Guidance – We possess a broad expert level knowledge of cloud service offerings and help customers pick the right services for their use-case needs, avoid mistakes, and accelerate cloud adoption or migration.
- Cost Management and Analytics – Enable customers to track costs, avoid multiple bills, or manage budget.
- Reduced Operational Burden – Allow us to efficiently free up your talent to focus on your mission success.
- Security and Compliance - Consistent security and cloud best practices governance ensures you satisfy FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST requirements and audits.
- 24/7 SOC/NOC Monitoring – Leverage our 24/7 Security Operations Center and Network Operations Center to perform continuous information security event monitoring with security event triage and incident response. Obtain your server and application security vulnerability scans and aggregate findings into a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAM) for timely resolution.
- Discounted Cloud Access – by leveraging our partnership with most FedRAMP certified cloud service providers, customers are able to obtain access to robust cloud infrastructure at a discounted rate while leveraging our ad-hoc cloud support team on as needed basis.
Ad-Hoc Cloud Management and Support Services
Receive ad hoc cloud support when needed to meet the needs of your government workloads. Our cloud management services are flexible, meeting the needs of sandbox, low, moderate, and high-impact workloads.
Our ad-hoc cloud management and support services include:
- Comprehensive cloud infrastructure support including initial cloud technical configuration, security baseline configuration, traffic routing configuration, backup configuration, on-going operating system patching and disaster recovery setup/testing.
- Administer, integrate, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure services such as compute, storage, load balancers, firewall, WAF, networking, security groups, etc.
- Coordinating and optimizing deployment by accelerating cloud capabilities across environments and infrastructure
- Application Support troubleshooting
- Backup and Recovery services
- FISMA/FedRAMP/CMMC/NIST Security Compliance
- 24/7 SOC/NOC
- Cost Visibility and Spend Forecasting
- Unified Billing across multiple accounts or cloud service providers.
Cloud Cost Visibility and Spend Management
- Gain clear insight into where your cloud dollars are going
- Use cost analytics for cost-saving strategies
- Set up budgets and alerts to prevent cost overruns
- Compare pricing across cloud providers or plans
- Continuously monitor and optimize to keep spending under control
- Perform month-to-month comparative cost analysis for cloud services utilized to detect single service cost increases and decreases for further computing resource optimization.
Managed Security and Compliance — Across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Through unified governance, IT-CNP delivers full Security Compliance as a Service (SECaaS) for government workloads—whether hosted on GovDataHosting, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. GovDataHosting enables seamless, compliant multi-cloud operations so your team can focus on mission critical goals.
Key Benefits:
- Cloud Provisioning and Management: We configure, deploy, and manage security controls across GovDataHosting Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP, but also continuously optimize cloud usage. We manage your compute/ storage and adjust security policies for cost-efficient performance.
- ATO, Compliance, and Security Documentation We manage all necessary compliance documentation: Authority to Operate (ATO), system security plans (SSP), plans of action and milestones (POAM), contingency plans, etc.), system categorization, and audit artifacts. All these are aligned with the unified control framework that spans across multiple clouds and maps to standards like NIST SP 800-53.
- Continuous Monitoring and Risk Management: We provide ongoing evaluation of controls, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and change tracking.
- Audit-Ready Visibility and Reporting: Stay up to date on your current security posture, compliance and audit readiness status
Comprehensive Cloud Management for Full-Service Customers
IT-CNP empowers federal agencies and government contractors to gain insight, control, and optimize cloud environments without complexity by fully managing all customers’ cloud infrastructure across a single or multiple cloud service providers.
Our full-service support option allows customers to focus on their application performance while we manage all technical and security compliance aspects of the underlying cloud infrastructure. We perform all cloud infrastructure configuration and management, unify billing, optimize spending, and enforce consistent security controls while handling compliance, security event monitoring, performance event monitoring, and ATO coordination support. The result: faster deployments, reduced risk, predictable costs, and more time to focus on your mission.
Our cloud management services offer the following benefits:
- Gain centralized visibility and governance across single or multiple cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and GovDataHosting Cloud Platform.
- Coordinate and optimize deployment by accelerating cloud capabilities across cloud service providers and infrastructure
- Automate DevOps, identity management, and service orchestration for faster, more reliable operations.
- Lower cost and boost performance via advanced cloud usage analytics, cost forecasting and spend optimization
- Strengthen security posture by enforcing consistent controls and meeting FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST and DoD cloud security compliance requirements.
- Simplify cloud management by having a unified solution for compliance, performance, and cost
- Detect risks early with the help of our 24/7 SOC/NOC continuous monitoring of anomalies and performance metrics
- Accelerate ATO approvals and audits by leveraging expert support for documentation and compliance processes
Explore Main Government Cloud Service Providers with Confidence
Whether you are evaluating cloud service providers for the first time or looking to optimize AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, GovDataHosting Cloud Platform, we will help you make the right choice. IT-CNP guides you through the benefits of each CSP choice, provides clear cost analysis, and helps match the best cloud solution to your agency’s mission.
We help government agencies and contractors navigate critical questions, such as:
- Can our current systems integrate easily with modern cloud environments?
- What’s the best approach to migrate and modernize our applications?
- Will our systems meet FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST requirements in the cloud?
- Which cloud solution best supports our mission needs?
- Should we consider pay-as-you-go or reserved instances for our workloads?
All CSP’s supported by us are FedRAMP certified to host federal and state government confidential data. All our support is provided from the United States by pre-vetted U.S. Citizen personnel. All cloud datacenters hosting federal and state data are located in the United States. GovDataHosting stands behind you as a trusted partner, ensuring expert cloud support is always within reach.
