Think Big, Start Small

How BigCheese Helps You Achieve Big Goals With Concrete Steps

In a world where technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, the companies that stand out are those that not only dream big but also take concrete steps towards those dreams. At BigCheese, we believe in the power of thinking big and starting small, a philosophy that enables organizations to sustainably advance towards their ambitious goals. In this post, we will explore how this approach manifests itself through our services and how it can transform your business.

1: Move.faster / Migration & Modernization

When you think big, you imagine your company moving fast, adapting and evolving faster than the competition. Our Migration & Modernization service is designed to turn that vision into reality. Here’s how you can get started with these AWS Proof of Concepts (AWS PoCs):

• Amazon EC2 Web Server Migration: Start migrating your web servers to Amazon EC2 to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing.
• Amazon RDS Database Migration: Move your databases to Amazon RDS to improve availability and efficiency.
• Amazon S3 Storage Migration: Migrate your data to Amazon S3 for secure, scalable storage.
• AWS Fargate App Containerization: Start containerizing your applications with AWS Fargate to simplify management and improve portability.
• AWS Lambda Serverless Function: Deploy serverless functions with AWS Lambda to increase operational efficiency.
• AWS CodePipeline & CodeBuild DevOps: Integrate your DevOps processes with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild to accelerate deliveries.
• Amazon EC2 DR Strategy: Develop a disaster recovery strategy for your EC2 instances.
• AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Snapshot: Use AWS Lambda together with CloudWatch for automatic snapshots and monitoring.

2: Be.efficint / Efficiency and Optimization

Dreaming big also means aspiring to unprecedented efficiency. Our Optimization service is designed to make this dream come true through small but powerful proofs of concept:

• AWS Well-Architected Tool Review Use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to evaluate and optimize your AWS infrastructure, focusing on operability, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• AWS Cost Explorer Optimization Improve financial management on AWS with AWS Cost Explorer. Analyze expenses, identify patterns and optimize costs through detailed reports and customized dashboards.
• Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances: Reduce costs significantly with Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Analyzes EC2 usage and plans the acquisition of reserved instances for long-term efficiency.
• EC2 Spot Instances Integration: Integrates EC2 Spot Instances to optimize costs without affecting performance. Take advantage of lower prices on flexible workloads and maximize operational efficiency.
• Amazon QuickSight FinOps Dashboard: Deploy FinOps dashboards with Amazon QuickSight for a clear view of usage and spending on AWS, facilitating informed decisions and better budget planning.
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: Ensure operational efficiency with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Automatically adjusts capacity to maintain optimum performance and reduce costs on variable demand.
• AWS CodePipeline DevOps Optimization: Optimize development and operations with AWS CodePipeline. Improve software delivery by automating workflows, accelerating delivery and fostering collaboration.
• AWS Lambda Cost Optimization: Optimizes costs in AWS Lambda, adjusting resources for serverless functions. Pay only for the computing time used, maximizing cost efficiency.
• Amazon S3 Storage Class Analysis: Analyze and optimize storage with Amazon S3 Storage Class Analysis. Choose the right class based on access and recovery, improving cost efficiency.

3: Take.control / Governance and Control

Thinking big includes having strong governance and control. Our Governance service provides the tools and strategies needed to get started using the incentives of the AWS Proof of Concept (AWS PoCs):

• AWS Governance Framework: Implement the AWS Governance Framework to structure your AWS environment, ensuring effective governance, streamlined operations and ongoing compliance through best practices and policies.
• AWS Billing Optimization: Use AWS Billing Optimization to analyze and understand your AWS costs. Identifies savings opportunities, improves resource allocation and optimizes expenses.
• AWS Security Hub Integration: Integrate AWS Security Hub to centralize and strengthen your security on AWS. Consolidate alerts, apply security best practices and improve overall posture.
• AWS CloudWatch Observability: Leverage AWS CloudWatch for complete observability of your applications and services on AWS. Monitor performance, optimize resources and improve incident detection.
• Amazon EC2/RDS High Availability: Ensure high availability of your applications with Amazon EC2/RDS. Design and deploy solutions that ensure continuity and minimize downtime.
• AWS Disaster Recovery Strategy: Develop a disaster recovery strategy with AWS, ensuring resiliency and rapid recovery of your critical services and data in adverse situations.
• IAM Policies Review: Review and optimize your IAM policies to strengthen security and access management. Ensures that permissions are aligned with the principle of least privilege.
• AWS Billing Alerts Implementation: Implement billing alerts in AWS to monitor and control your expenses. Receive proactive notifications to avoid overages and better manage your budget.
• Amazon GuardDuty Security Monitoring: Activate Amazon GuardDuty for continuous security monitoring and threat detection. Protect your resources and data on AWS from suspicious and unauthorized activity.
• AWS CloudTrail Logging and Monitoring: Use AWS CloudTrail for detailed logging and monitoring of activities in your AWS environment. Ensures traceability, audits actions and improves operational safety.
• AWS Glue Data Governance and Compliance: Deploy AWS Glue to govern your data and ensure compliance. Organize, catalog and prepare your data for analysis while maintaining security and privacy.

4: Predict.future / AI/ML DATA

Imagining a future where your company can predict trends and behaviors is thinking big. With our AI/ML DATA service, you can begin to realize that vision with any of these Proof of Concepts (AWS PoCs) to predict the future:

• Amazon SageMaker AI/ML Data Strategy: Develop a data strategy for AI/ML using Amazon SageMaker, optimizing data collection, analysis and utilization to drive innovation and efficiency.
• Amazon EMR Big Data Assessment: Assess your Big Data capabilities and needs with Amazon EMR, identifying opportunities to improve big data processing, storage, and analytics.
• AWS Data & IA/ML Operations Optimization: Optimize your data and IA/ML operations on AWS to accelerate development, improve model accuracy, and increase operational and cost efficiency.
• Amazon QuickSight Business Insights: Use Amazon QuickSight to transform data into business insights. Discover trends, patterns and opportunities with visual analytics to make data-driven decisions.
• Amazon SageMaker GenIA Implementation: Implement GenIA in Amazon SageMaker to accelerate the development of AI models, improving the accuracy and efficiency of your machine learning solutions.
• Amazon Redshift Data-Driven Adoption: Drive data-driven decision making with Amazon Redshift, leveraging its storage and analytics power for valuable and timely insights.
• AWS Data Advanced Analytics: Leverage advanced analytics on AWS to extract deep insights from your data. Transforms information into strategic actions with predictive and prescriptive analytics.
• Amazon S3 Data Lake Architecture Design: Design a data lake architecture on Amazon S3 that supports scalable, secure and efficient analysis of large data sets, facilitating innovation and agility.
• Amazon Forecast Future Prediction: Use Amazon Forecast to make accurate predictions based on your historical data. Improve decision making and anticipate trends with machine learning models.

At BigCheese, we understand that big achievements start with small steps. By adopting the “Think Big, Start Small” approach, you position yourself to effectively and sustainably transform your business. We invite you to contact us and start taking those steps towards the future you envision for your organization.

Ready to think big? Contact us today to explore how our proof-of-concepts can start your journey to greater achievements.