NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – APRIL 8, 2022– Cloudnexa, a Premier Amazon Web Service (AWS) partner, is excited to announce that they have completed their System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2®, Type II audit and earned their certification.

“This is a rare achievement in our industry,” CEO MJ DiBerardino explained when asked what this means for Cloudnexa. “Completing this certification shows our progression to support our rapid growth.”

SOC for Service Organizations reports are internal control reports, which independent CPAs provide, on the services a service organization provides. SOC 2® reports address controls relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems the service organization uses to process users’ data and the confidentiality and privacy of the information these systems process. They provide a level of detail sufficient to address the user’s vendor risk management needs and are restricted to specified parties with sufficient knowledge and understanding of the service organization’s system and the nature of services it provides.

CTO Josh Resnick commented, “This validates our IT security, processes, operating effectiveness, and assures security for our clients. We are committed in our investment to security.”

The SOC 2® is a continuous process and includes audits and third-party validation. While standards in the industry are becoming stricter, clients that have compliance requirements can adopt Cloudnexa’s standards.

About Cloudnexa
Cloudnexa is a leading AWS partner since 2008 and a Premier Consulting Partner since 2013 with operations out of Philadelphia, Honolulu, and Salt Lake City. Cloudnexa has continually innovated with tools and services that have helped industry-leading organizations capitalize on the cloud’s rapid growth in the past decade. Cloudnexa revolutionizes the way businesses of all scale and sizes deploy, secure, and automate their cloud services.

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NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – MARCH 11, 2022 – Cloudnexa, a Premier Amazon Web Service (AWS) partner, welcomes Jon Hossfeld as their new AWS director of strategic alliances. Jon was formerly an AWS enterprise account executive for four years and was previously with Microsoft, Comcast, and Verizon.

When asked how he feels about joining Cloudnexa, Jon said, “Cloudnexa is a long-standing AWS Premier Partner with a proven track record of helping customers through their cloud adoption journey. I am excited to be joining this rapidly expanding organization to help customers realize the benefits of cloud computing and harness the power of the AWS platform.”

As the new AWS director of strategic alliances, Jon will manage the AWS relationship and ecosystem including programs and expansion opportunities. Jon will work closely with the AWS management and field teams on enablement programs, go-to-market strategies, and sales opportunities.

Commenting on Jon’s new position, VP of Sales Shane Eliason said, “I’m excited about the value and AWS experience that Jon brings and the growth opportunities this enables for us to take things to the next level.”

About Cloudnexa
Cloudnexa is a leading AWS partner since 2008 and a Premier Consulting Partner since 2013 with operations out of Philadelphia, Honolulu, and Salt Lake City. Cloudnexa has continually innovated with tools and services that have helped industry-leading organizations capitalize on the cloud’s rapid growth in the past decade. Cloudnexa revolutionizes the way businesses of all scale and sizes deploy, secure, and automate their cloud services.

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NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – MARCH 4, 2022 – Cloudnexa, a Premier Amazon Web Service (AWS) partner, is excited to announce that they have achieved the Amazon CloudFront Service Delivery Competency.

The AWS Service Delivery Program enables AWS customers to identify AWS Partners with experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. These AWS Partners have passed a rigorous technical validation to ensure they are following best practices with each service, as well as demonstrated proven customer success.

When asked what this competency means to him, CEO MJ DiBerardino replied, “Receiving the Amazon CloudFront Service Delivery Competency recognizes our ability to deliver a secure and high-performing service for our clients.”

As an Amazon CloudFront Delivery Partner, Cloudnexa helps clients deploy a global content delivery network (CDN) service to accelerate the delivery of websites, APIs, video content, and other web assets. By helping customers deploy Amazon CloudFront, Cloudnexa offers developers and businesses an easy way to optimize performance, accelerate content, and reduce costs.

“We deeply value AWS’ recognition of our technical knowledge and expertise through the Amazon CloudFront Service Delivery Competency award,” CTO Josh Resnick commented.

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About Cloudnexa
Cloudnexa is a leading AWS partner since 2008 and a Premier Consulting Partner since 2013 with operations out of Philadelphia, Honolulu, and Salt Lake City. Cloudnexa has continually innovated with tools and services that have helped industry-leading organizations capitalize on the cloud’s rapid growth in the past decade. Cloudnexa revolutionizes the way businesses of all scale and sizes deploy, secure, and automate their cloud services.

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NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – FEBRUARY 18, 2022– Cloudnexa, a Premier Amazon Web Service (AWS) partner, is excited to announce that they have achieved the AWS Digital Workplace Competency. The AWS Digital Workplace Competency identifies highly specialized AWS Partners who offer solutions on AWS that effectively support remote workers and business continuity.

“Given the times we’re in, the AWS Digital Workplace Competency is key to help normalize work environments and secure access points no matter where employees are working each day—the office, home, or a hybrid model, “ said CEO MJ DiBerardino.

AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner offerings free client end users from the office, allowing them to work securely on any device, from anywhere, and at any time. These partners help reduce security risks and meet compliance and business requirements while allowing clients to effectively support remote workers and implement business continuity plans.

“Today’s mobile workforce dynamic is completely unprecedented,” commented VP of Sales Shane Eliason. “I’m excited about our AWS Digital Competency as we can help companies quickly and securely adapt.”

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About Cloudnexa
Cloudnexa is a leading AWS partner since 2008 and a Premier Consulting Partner since 2013 with operations out of Philadelphia, Honolulu, and Salt Lake City. Cloudnexa has continually innovated with tools and services that have helped industry-leading organizations capitalize on the cloud’s rapid growth in the past decade. Cloudnexa revolutionizes the way businesses of all scale and sizes deploy, secure, and automate their cloud services.

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As we covered in our blog, “Enabling Your Remote/Hybrid Workforce by Moving to Amazon WorkSpaces” last week, Amazon WorkSpaces provide secure, reliable, and scalable access to persistent desktops from any location.

Amazon WorkSpaces optimizes running modes based on end-user connection times. Amazon WorkSpaces is a cost-effective solution and optimizes costs. Use cases include onboarding new employees or contingent workers while providing tighter data access controls and protections. Amazon WorkSpaces comes in preconfigured bundles with Microsoft Office and Trend Micro Antivirus or you can make your own bundle to fit workers’ needs and quickly onboard them.

Amazon WorkSpaces also allows for quick recovery from ransomware and cyberattacks. Cloudnexa includes Trend Micro’s agent into the deployment bundle so that all environments are protected when they launch.

Once you have Amazon WorkSpaces, the next step is to manage them effectively. This can be achieved through Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer and Amazon AppStream 2.0.

Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer

Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer analyzes all of your Amazon WorkSpaces usage data and automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option (hourly or monthly), depending on your individual usage. This solution also helps you monitor your WorkSpace usage and optimize costs.

Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option depending on usage.

Key benefits include:

  • Automatic WorkSpaces conversion: Automatically convert your WorkSpaces to the most cost-effective billing option (hourly or monthly), depending on your individual usage.
  • Monitor your WorkSpaces usage: Monitor your WorkSpace usage and optimize costs by using AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision and configure the necessary AWS services to convert individual WorkSpaces.
  • Secure one-click deployment: Provide a secure one-click deployment using an AWS CloudFormation template developed with the AWS Well-Architected Framework methodologies.

AWS Solutions Implementation Overview

The diagram below presents the architecture you can automatically deploy using the solution’s implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.

Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer solution architecture

  1. This solution deploys an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function every 24 hours.
  2. The Lambda function runs the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task, which gets the list of AWS Directories and Amazon WorkSpaces from the Regions where these services are available.
  3. The Fargate task checks each WorkSpace for total usage for the month and converts the WorkSpace to the most efficient billing model depending on usage.
  4. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) stores a log file with the conversions

Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides secure, reliable, and scalable access to applications and non-persistent desktops from any location.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 empowers your remote workforce, strengthens security, optimizes costs, and reduces downtime.

  • Empower your remote workforce and react quickly to changing conditions with access to applications and desktops from anywhere.
  • Strengthen security by storing data on AWS instead of vulnerable endpoint devices.
  • Optimize costs through on-demand cloud scalability with a range of compute, memory, and storage options.
  • Reduce downtime with fully managed application delivery and reliable AWS infrastructure offering 99.9% uptime.

How it works

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed non-persistent desktop and application service for remotely accessing your work.

Use cases include:

  • Empower contact center agents to work from anywhere: Enable contact center agents to work remotely from any location with a secure, easy-to-use agent experience.
  • Launch SaaS for software vendors: Deliver Software as a Service (SaaS) versions of applications without rewrites, special hardware, or device installs, ideal for training, trials and software demonstrations.
  • Access to 3D design and engineering applications: Enable user access to CAD, CAM, and CAE applications from any computer with responsive, high-performance streaming sessions.
  • Support student learning environments: Enable online learning over slow network conditions with easy, reliable access to applications and resources.

Learn how you can manage Amazon WorkSpaces by contacting us today!

Whether companies were ready or not, most of them experienced a dramatic digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Workplaces shifted overnight and continue to be in flux. Companies are still scrambling to determine how best to help their employees be productive and successful, while ensuring data security.

One of the ways you can enable and mobilize your workforce is to move to Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon WorkSpaces provide secure, reliable, and scalable access to persistent desktops from any location. Leveraging Amazon WorkSpaces helps normalize work environments and secure access points no matter where employees are working each day—the office, home, or a hybrid model.

In most work environments, if an individual machine fails, it creates big business impacts such as lost revenue or customer service issues. Through Amazon WorkSpaces, there is no impact as employees can simply access Amazon WorkSpaces on another machine. Amazon WorkSpaces mitigate risks because your local device is only the gateway to AWS. Everything on Amazon WorkSpaces is secured and remains in a suspended state until you are able to login again.

Key Benefits

Moving to Amazon WorkSpaces has many benefits including the following:

Amazon WorkSpaces empowers your workforce, strengthens security, optimizes costs, and reduces downtime.

  • Empower your remote workforce and react quickly to changing conditions with access to applications and desktops from anywhere.
  • Strengthen security by storing user data on AWS instead of vulnerable endpoint devices.
  • Optimize costs with on-demand, pay-as-you-go scaling with a range of compute, memory, and storage options.
  • Reduce downtime with fully managed application delivery and highly reliable AWS infrastructure designed for 99.9% uptime.

Use Cases

Sounds interesting, but you’re not sure how to apply it? Here are few example use cases:

  • Onboard contingent workers: Easily assign and remove desktops for contractors while keeping your sensitive data secure in the cloud.
  • Facilitate remote work: Enable work-from-home and remote workers to access fully functional Windows and Linux desktops from any location.
  • Run powerful desktops: Provide high-performance desktops for developers and engineers to store and access proprietary models, designs, and code.
  • Let contact center agents work from anywhere: Enable contact center agents to work from anywhere with a secure, easy-to-use agent experience.

How it Works

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that enables you to access resources from any supported device.

Secure your workforce’s future by moving to Amazon WorkSpaces today. Get started by contacting us.