COGNIZANT CLOUD SERVICES ACCELERATE DIGITAL BUSINESS WITH THE AWS CLOUD

POWER NEXT GENERATION

HYBRID STORAGE AND
DATA SOLUTIONS WITH
COGNIZANT AND AWS

Cognizant draws on the power of Amazon Web Services

(AWS) to provide an array of hybrid cloud storage and data
solutions. The agility, scalability and cost effectiveness
of cloud storage enables us to design solutions without
constraints. Your organization can experience optimal
storage performance and features while still reducing overall
storage costs.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
AT A GLANCE
Digital data in all its forms continues its
explosive growth. Managing that data
effectively becomes critical to a company’s
ability to drive innovation and deliver great
customer experiences.

Cognizant hybrid cloud storage features and benefits on
AWS include:
• Assured data protection leveraging AWS service level
agreements
• Reduced time-to-store, backup, archive, recover and
retrieve to accelerate use of data in analytics and
applications, so new products and services get to market
faster
• Strong data platform for business continuity and disaster
recovery environments
Cognizant leverages AWS Cloud and best-in-
class tools from its rich partner ecosystem to
provide flexible, scalable and secure hybrid
storage and data solutions that enable
organizations to transform their applications in
both on-premises and on cloud with the power
of AWS.
Turn data into a business accelerator with
Cognizant and AWS hybrid cloud storage and
data solutions.

• Secure, reliable, dependable and cost-effective cloud

backup replaces risky tape drives and other physical
media

• Ensure secured and optimized data transactions by

deduplication, encryption and compression
• Built-in cloud security and industry-specific compliance
measures.
• Complete end-to-end platform for Big Data and
Analytics: Collect, store, process, analyse, visualize and
exploit visualize big data easily and quickly
• Ingest, store and explore almost unlimited data on
AWS Cloud with cost-effective and seamless data lake
solutions
AWS HYBRID CLOUD STORAGE AND
DATA SOLUTIONS
Primary Storage: We leverage AWS storage gateway,
Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and partner
solutions for virtually unlimited and automatically scalable
amounts of active data storage. These solutions are
integrated into our managed services framework powered
by Cloud360, a comprehensive platform for end-to-end
cloud monitoring and management.
Data Protection Solutions: We leverage innovative
niche solutions from our partners that exploit the wide
range of AWS storage features including Amazon EBS,
Amazon S3, Amazon S3-IA and Amazon Glacier. Our
Backup and Recovery solutions transform complex
backup environments to reduce cost and minimize effort
while increasing durability, reliability and flexibility. These
solutions are boosted with performance accelerators such
as deduplication, compression, etc., and include encryption
for security and compliance requirements.
Data Archival Solutions: Low-cost yet highly durable
storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon S3-IA and
Amazon Glacier reduce time, cost and data volume by up to
90% and shrink retrieval time from days to minutes.
Remote Office and Branch Office Solutions: We
optimize bandwidth, speed data access, reduce time-to-
provision, improve application performance, meet mobility
requirements and centralize management with storage
solutions for your remote locations and branches. We
leverage accelerators such as WAN optimizers and caching
appliances integrated with a wide range of AWS storage
services and our Cloud360 platform for Cloud monitoring
and management.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR): We
build powerful, proactive end-to-end Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions. We continuously
monitor the solution to ensure disaster readiness; monitor
your infrastructure for issues; and enable pre-emptive
seamless switchovers to disaster recovery sites. Solutions
can encompass scenarios such as on-premises to AWS;
AWS to AWS; and any Cloud to AWS.
Big Data Solutions: We build big data solutions by
integrating a wide range of services from AWS such as
Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon
EMR, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, AWS Data Pipeline etc.
We use best-in-class partner tools for building big data
solutions, powered by Cognizant’s innovative approach,
effortlessly collect, store, process, analyse and visualize
the data and gain valuable insights into your business data.
Data Lake Solutions: We make the lives of the developers
and data scientists easy by building innovative large scale
data lake solutions by integrating AWS services such as
Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon
QuickSight, AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon Elasticsearch, AWS
Lambda etc., and partner tools leveraging Cognizant’s rich
set of IPs and blueprints.

AWS Solutions Cognizant Value Propositions Cognizant Use Cases

Transformation Services • Primary Storage Solutions
Cloud Steps 2.0 framework

Amazon AWS AWS Amazon Partner Ecosystem • Data Protection Solutions

EFS Snowball DynamoDB EMR Best-in-class tools from partners

• Data Archival Solutions

Accelerators
Build factory, Application
Amazon AWS Storage AWS Amazon migration factory, Partner tools
• Remote Office Solutions
Glacier Gateway Lambda Kinesis

IPs and Assets • Business Continuity and

• Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon
Managed Services
S3 CloudFront Elasticsearch QuickSight Cloud Governance, Application
Service Migration Foundry, Cloud • Data Lake Solutions
Management Fabric, SLAs,
Monitoring & Billing, Integration
with on-premise resources • Big Data Solutions

Amazon Amazon AWS Direct AWS Date

EBS Redshift Connect Pipeline
CASE STUDY The migration was carried out in multiple phases:

The Client • Phase 1

The client is a global advance clinical, analytical and Theon Web, application server and database: This phase
technical product for Healthcare. includes migration of data into database.

Scope • Phase 1.5

The client specializes in the development of advance Creation of Aver and Mirth applications interfacing
clinical, analytical and technical products for Healthcare with instances created in phase 1: This phase involves
and has engaged Cognizant to assist with the assessment creation of a No SQL database to be utilized in future
and migration of their IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud. for data analytics.

Cognizant Solution • Phase 2

The client’s AWS environment consists of production,
staging, testing and development to reside in virtual private
cloud (VPC) of client’s choice based on AWS region. All
VPCs will leverage multiple availability zones (AZs) to allow
for data backup and HA capabilities. All infrastructure and
application components will be self-sustained in the VPC.
High impact migration: This phase involved setting up
the client portal.
• Phase 3
Portal Creation: Marketing portals for client and
SharePoint in AWS were created in this phase.

Architecture

Data Center AWS Cloud Benefits

10 TB

VPC • 10 TB transferred through AWS

export / import
AWS
Import / Export • To consider establishing direct
EBS Volumes
connect connectivity between AWS
and data center as the bandwidth
requirement increased in future
when the number of products in
On-Premise production environment increases
Servers Amazon S3
IPSec VPN • Data ingestion for cloud workloads

• Snapshot backup for EBS volumes

• Staging for cloud data management

tools
S3 Bucket

Key Benefits • Pragmatic approach to cloud transformation starting

with high value workloads
• Storage migration that involved moving of ~10 TB of
data to AWS • Highly scalable systems based on workloads

• Optimally used Amazon EBS storage, Amazon EBS • Lower cost of IT infrastructure and operations
snapshots and Amazon S3 storage during migration
• Improved SLAs and qualities of service
• Vertica DB cluster migration with negligible interruption

For more details on the overall solution implementation, please refer https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-campaign/
healthcare analytics company.pdf
 WHY COGNIZANT AND AWS

Cognizant is a Premier Consulting Partner for AWS, with over 2000 AWS practitioners, including more than 1000
certified professionals. We are also an AWS Channel Reseller, an AWS Managed Services Partner, AWS Migration
Acceleration Program (MAP) Partner and an AWS Marketplace Reseller. In addition to this, Cognizant has accredited
status with AWS for Service Delivery, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, Migration Competency, Big
Data, Workspaces and SharePoint.

Choose Cognizant and AWS to gain industry leading partners with proven solutions. We’ll blend our system integration
capabilities, accelerators, frameworks, and toolkits with our advisory, implementation and managed services along
with best-in-class AWS Cloud computing technologies and services to deliver a reliable, flexible cloud infrastructure
that will drive business acceleration and transform your organization.

For more information, contact Cloud@cognizant.com

ABOUT COGNIZANT
Cognizant (NASDAQ-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating
and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more
innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed
among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us
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