AWS CONSULTING PRACTICE

AWS 

Audit and Compliance Services

OVERVIEW

Simplify Your Path to Compliance on AWS

Achieve SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO, PCI, and CMMC Faster—Without the Overhead

Startups and growing SMBs don’t have time for compliance complexity. That’s why Aligned Technology Group, in partnership with Vanta, delivers two fully-managed compliance solutions via AWS Marketplace. Whether you need expert-led acceleration or an ongoing “Compliance as a Service” model, we make governance, security, and certification easy, efficient, and audit-ready.

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Aligned Technology Group Becomes AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Further Strengthening Secure Cloud Practices

ATG and Vanta Fast Track to Compliance Acceleration

Aligned Technology Group, in partnership with Vanta, offers AWS customers a fast-track compliance bundle to achieve standards like SOC2, ISO, CMMC, and HIPAA. By managing the entire compliance process—from planning to audit readiness—with seamless integrations and expert guidance, we eliminate the complexity of governance, security, and compliance. This solution accelerates time-to-value, reduces compliance burdens, and ensures customers are prepared for successful audits, enabling them to focus on driving their business forward.

Our comprehensive Fast Track to Compliance Accelerator solution includes:

 

  • Compliance Platform Monitoring – From the moment a customer decides to become compliant, our team manages the entire process, integrating Vanta as the primary compliance platform to link seamlessly with the customer’s cloud and IT environment. Vanta’s platform serves as the central compliance hub.

    Add ons:

  • Well-Architected Review – an interactive and systematic process designed to enhance the architectural and operational foundation of your AWS workloads.
  • Elastic Engineering – an all-in-one solution for companies seeking reliable and secure infrastructure and DevOps engineering services
  • Audit Services – Our unique approach brings together key partnerships and expertise: the Aligned team works closely with the customer’s team to guide them through each stage of the compliance journey, ensuring they are prepared for successful audits.
  • Penetration Testing – With our service, you can rest assured that your AWS hosted workloads are rigorously evaluated from all angles, enabling you to proactively address vulnerabilities and bolster your security posture.

Compliance as a Service

Fully-Managed Compliance Built for Small Teams

Don’t have a security or compliance team? No problem. Our Compliance as a Service solution is designed for companies with fewer than 50 employees who need to prove compliance fast—without adding headcount. We handle it all: onboarding, monitoring, audit prep, and more.

Aligned Technology Group’s Compliance as a Service offering provides end-to-end compliance program management for AWS-based startups and SMBs with fewer than 50 employees. Powered by Vanta’s automation platform and backed by the expertise of ATG’s AWS-certified team, this fully-managed service accelerates your journey to certifications like SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, ISO, and CMMC—without the headcount or complexity.

Our 4 Step Approach

  • Initial Setup & Onboarding (One-time Fee)
    • Compliance gap assessment
    • Vanta platform configuration
    • Policy documentation & templates
    • Remediation planning End-user training
  1. Ongoing Monthly Management (Fixed Monthly Fee)
    • Monthly posture reports
    • Vanta alert & control failure triage
    • Documentation updates
    • Quarterly “mini-audits”
  1. Annual Audit Support
    • Evidence collection
    • Audit liaison & interview coordination
    • Post-audit remediation
  1. Optional Professional Services
    • Penetration testing
    • Vendor risk reviews
    • Third-party security assessments

We remove the barriers which prohibit organizations from achieving maximum value from the enterprise Cloud.

Specialists with AWS

As an Advanced Tier Services partner, Aligned is vested and committed to Amazon Web Services (AWS). And, we are just getting started.

We are working tirelessly to enhance and extend our expertise with AWS. We truly believe in the superiority of AWS over other cloud competitors, and see this play out with our Clients each and every day.

Strategically Aligning Technology to Business

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Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.

Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.