Nos offres
Cloud
Adopt a secure, high-performance Cloud aligned with your business priorities.
Nos services
Our cloud services
Cloud Audit & Strategy
Objectifs
A well-designed Cloud is a lever for agility and sustainable performance.
EFFICIANT supports you in analyzing your Cloud maturity, selecting models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, multi-cloud, hybrid), assessing risks and opportunities, and defining a clear, secure strategy tailored to your business, regulatory, and budgetary challenges
Approche
- Cloud maturity assessment
- Assessment of the current state (infrastructure, governance, security, skills)
- Mapping current usage and identifying gaps with Cloud best practices (cloud readiness)
- Definition of a strategic roadmap
- Formulation of a 1-3 year Cloud transformation roadmap, prioritizing projects such as migration, refactoring, and modernization
- Definition of milestones
- Resource and ROI estimation
- Determination of the Cloud adoption strategy
- Assessment of cloud models tailored to your organization: public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud
- Selection of service types (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and providers based on your technical, economic, and regulatory constraints
- Cost assessment and FinOps approach
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study, budget modeling
- Identification of improvement opportunities
- Support for implementing a FinOps strategy (Cloud financial governance)
- Cloud risk mapping
- Identification of technical, organizational, contractual, and regulatory risks (SLAs, vendor dependency, reversibility, GDPR/ISO compliance)
- Establishment of risk mitigation measures
- Strategic alignment with business units and IT department
- Collaborative workshops with stakeholders to align business goals, IT needs, and the overarching Cloud strategy
- Preparation for migration and transformation
- Identification of applications or services eligible for the Cloud
- Workload classification
- Approach recommendations (rehost, replatform, refactor...)
- Identification of quick wins
- Decision-making support for Executive Committee and IT leadership
- Strategic overview
- Assistance in selecting providers or hosting solutions
- Preparation for decision-making
- Sector-specific benchmarking
- Recommendations for the target organizational structure
Cloud Architecture & Engineering
Objectifs
The success of your Cloud strategy depends on a well-designed and seamlessly integrated architecture.
EFFICIANT supports you in designing and implementing modern, efficient, and secure Cloud architectures.
Our experts create environments tailored to your business needs, optimize your technical resources, and ensure the coherence, resilience, and maintainability of your infrastructure.
Approche
- Design of target Cloud architectures
- Design of Cloud architectures—public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud—tailored to your requirements for performance, security, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Consideration of workloads, criticality levels, and regulatory requirements
- Deployment of cloud-native environments
- Deploying architectures built on cloud-native components such as containers, microservices, serverless functions, API gateways, and message queues, seamlessly integrated with your existing IT systems
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Industrialization of provisioning using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Structuring reproducible, versioned, audited models compatible with DevOps practices
- Security of architectures from the design phase (SecArch)
- Native integration of security requirements into the architecture: network segmentation, encryption, administrative bastions, auditability, secrets management, advanced IAM, and monitoring
- Performance optimization and high availability
- Implementation of autoscaling mechanisms, load balancing, distributed caching, multi-region/multi-zone deployment, and disaster recovery planning (DRP)
- Analysis and improvement of response times and SLA
- Design of CI/CD and MLOps pipelines
- Implementing continuous deployment workflows for both classic and AI-driven applications
- Automation of testing, deployments, monitoring, rollback, and lifecycle management for applications or models
- Multi-cloud deployment and interoperability
- Integration of multiple Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OVHcloud, etc.
- Interconnection management
- Optimization of usage
- Standardization of configurations
- Consolidated monitoring
- Technical documentation and knowledge transfer to teams
- Creation of architecture diagrams, deployment guides, and monitoring plans
- Training programs covering operations, security, and maintenance of operational conditions (MCO)
Cloud environment security
Objectifs
Cloud offers power and agility but requires rigorous and continuous security of its environments.
EFFICIANT supports you in securing your Cloud environments at every stage: design, deployment, monitoring, and compliance.
We combine technical expertise, mastery of best practices (CIS, ANSSI, CSA), and regulatory knowledge to build security tailored to your use cases, scalable and resilient.
Approche
- Cloud security posture assessment (Cloud Security Review)
- Comprehensive audit of your AWS, Azure, GCP, or OVHcloud environments covering configurations, IAM, encryption, logging, networking, interconnectivity, and security of containers and serverless functions
- Assessment aligned with standards such as CIS, SecNumCloud, and NIST
- Hardening
- Applying security best practices across managed services, virtual machines, databases, storage buckets, APIs, and exposed credentials
- Attack surface reduction
- Identity and Access Management (IAM, MFA, RBAC)
- Deployment or overhaul of access control policies
- Segregation of duties
- Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Access rights audits
- Periodic review of sensitive permissions
- Continuous monitoring and threat detection in Cloud environments
- Integration of Cloud logs into SIEM systems, deployment of CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management), Cloud EDR/XDR, or dedicated agents
- Detection of abnormal behaviors or risky configurations
- Implementation of native Cloud security mechanisms
- Activation of integrated Cloud security services: AWS GuardDuty, Azure Defender, CloudTrail, Cloud Security Command Center, etc.
- Handling alerts and recommendations efficiently
- Secret and key management
- Implementation of Key Management Services (KMS)
- Secure storage of secrets (Vaults)
- Automatic rotation of sensitive credentials
- Management of encryption at rest and in transit
- Securing multi-Cloud and hybrid architectures
- Standardization of security policies across providers
- Centralized supervision
- Segmentation of inter-cloud traffic
- Dependency management
- Cloud Compliance and Auditability
- Preparation for compliance with ISO 27017/27018, GDPR, DORA, SecNumCloud, AI Act, and other regulations
- Documentation of security measures
- Documentation of security measures
Cloud Governance & Compliance
Objectifs
Cloud is a strategic opportunity, provided it is governed, controlled, and auditable.
EFFICIANT supports you in establishing clear, shared, and compliant Cloud governance.
We help you structure the roles, policies, processes, and controls necessary to oversee Cloud usage while ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements (ISO, GDPR, DORA, SecNumCloud, etc.).
Approche
- Establishment of a Cloud governance framework
- Creation of a comprehensive Cloud policy defining roles and responsibilities (Cloud Owner, FinOps, Security, IT), usage guidelines, approval hierarchies, and validation workflows
- Establishment of formal usage and access policies
- Development or enhancement of best practice guidelines covering provisioning, naming conventions, tagging, resource lifecycle management, and security and compliance standards
- Deployment of financial governance practices (FinOps)
- Managing Cloud costs with allocation by BU or project, optimizing consumption, detecting anomalies, creating budget tracking dashboards, and automating alerts
- Management of access controls and shared responsibilities
- Establishing and validating the division of responsibilities between client and Cloud provider under the Shared Responsibility Model
- IAM Governance
- Audits of user access rights and permissions
- Monitoring of unapproved service deployments
- Ensuring regulatory compliance in Cloud environments
- Assessment of relevant regulatory and compliance requirements including GDPR, ISO 27001/17/18, DORA, LPM, AI Act, and others
- Data flow and processing mapping
- Documentation
- Regular audits
- Embedding within the risk mapping framework
- Governance of Cloud service providers
- Guidance for selection
- Contract drafting and management (SLAs, security provisions, reversibility clauses)
- Monitoring of commitments
- Oversight of control activities including audits, service reviews, and incident handling
- Documentation, auditability, and traceability
- Establishment of Cloud data processing registers
- Recording of architectural choices and deployed control measures
- Assistance with internal and external audits, such as DORA assessments or ISO certifications
- Awareness and training of internal stakeholder
- Workshops to align business units, IT departments, security, and legal teams on Cloud governance challenges
- Upskilling teams on roles, rules, and controls to be applied
Application migration & modernization
Objectifs
Migration is more than moving — it's about transforming to perform better.
EFFICIENT supports you in your application migration and modernization projects to the Cloud.
From mapping to go-live, we secure every step to ensure continuity, performance, and business value, while helping you make the right technical, economic, and organizational choices.
Approche
- Application portfolio mapping
- Application inventory
- Dependency analysis
- Classification of use cases (internal operations, customer-facing applications, real-time processing, and sensitive data handling)
- Assessment of technical and regulatory requirements and constraints
- Migratability assessment and workload prioritization
- Assessment of key migration criteria including criticality, technical obsolescence, return on investment (ROI), and associated risks.
- Design of a prioritization matrix to guide migration decisions
- Prioritization of applications for initial migration or modernization
- Definition of migration strategies based on the 6Rs framework (Rehost, Replatform, Repurchase, Refactor, Retire, Retain)
- Determining the most suitable migration approach for each application: Rehost (lift & shift), Replatform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Replace
- Incorporating key considerations such as cost, performance, agility, maintainability, and reversibility into the migration strategy
- Design and planning of the migration roadmap
- Structuring migration phases, defining cutover sequences, test strategies, business continuity planning, and managing configurations and target environments
- Managing coordination across internal teams and external partners/stakeholders
- Application architecture modernization
- Transition to cloud-native architectures (microservices, APIs, containers), component decoupling, and integration of managed services such as databases, caching, authentication, and messaging
- Automation of deployment processes and integration of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Integration into the DevOps lifecycle, managing provisioning through Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), automating build and test pipelines, and ensuring software quality assurance
- Management of security and compliance
- Access rights verification, data encryption, configuration hardening, ensuring post-migration auditability, and ongoing compliance with GDPR, DORA, and ISO 27001/17 standards
- Change management and post-migration transition support
- Communication, comprehensive documentation, skills transfer, and startup support
- Monitoring performance, driving continuous improvement, and optimizing Cloud costs and usage
Cloud operations and monitoring (CloudOps)
Objectifs
A high-performance infrastructure requires ongoing management, not just deployment.
FFICIANT supports you in implementing secure, resilient, and automated Cloud operations.
Leveraging our CloudOps expertise, we ensure operational maintenance, real-time monitoring, cost optimization, and incident management, all within a framework of continuous efficiency and governance.
Approche
- Definition of the target Cloud operations model
- Development of a CloudOps model tailored to your organization: roles, responsibilities (Run, FinOps, SecOps), monitoring processes, escalation, and incident management
- Implementation of centralized monitoring
- Deployment of multi-layer monitoring solutions (infrastructure, services, applications)
- Real-time alerting
- Integration with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.
- Automation of operational tasks
- Implementation of scripts and playbooks for restarts, backups, deployments, auto-healing, and environment management (Infrastructure as Code)
- Incident management and technical support
- Proactive detection, root cause analysis, tracking of corrections, and communication with stakeholders.
- Implementation of a service center (Cloud NOC or outsourced operations center based on needs)
- Performance and resource optimization
- Monitoring indicators (latency, availability, CPU/RAM/IO usage), automatic adjustments (scaling), and cleanup of unused resources.
- Contribution to application performance and user satisfaction
- Backup management and business continuity (BCP/DRP)
- Planning, automation, and testing of restores; management of replication across zones or regions; prioritized restart strategy
- Documentation of the Cloud disaster recovery plan
- Cost monitoring and FinOps approach
- Monitoring and alerting in case of deviation
- Identification of inefficiency sources
- Optimization of commitments (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
- Dashboards by entity or project
- Contract management and service level indicators (SLAs)
- Definition and monitoring of SLA/SLO/SQI
- Preparation of monthly or weekly reports
- Facilitation of CloudOps steering committees
- Continuous improvement recommendations
Cloud Training & Awareness
Objectifs
Cloud adoption relies as much on technology as it does on team understanding and engagement.
EFFICIANT offers tailored training and awareness programs for all company profiles: business leaders, CIOs, IT teams, cybersecurity, compliance, and key users.
Our programs aim to accelerate Cloud adoption, strengthen operational mastery, and support a secure, sustainable, and compliant transformation.
Approche
- Executive Strategic Enablement for C-Level and Board Members
- Focused sessions to explore the strategic dimensions of Cloud adoption — including agility, performance, cost efficiency, and innovation — as well as associated risks such as cybersecurity and vendor dependency, and key drivers of value creation
- Technical Team Training (IT, DevOps, CloudOps)
- Modules covering cloud-native architectures, core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM), automation best practices (IaC), monitoring tools, resource optimization, and ongoing operations and maintenance
- Learning track for security and compliance teams
- Training in Cloud security (IAM, logging, hardening, segmentation), governance practices (Cloud policies, access management), and regulatory compliance frameworks (ISO 27017, GDPR, SecNumCloud, DORA, etc.)
- Cloud Platform Training (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Technical and functional training programs tailored to each Cloud platform, covering core principles, flagship services, deployment and monitoring practices, platform-specific tools, and related certifications (AWS CCP, Azure Fundamentals, etc.)
- Awareness modules for business teams
- Hands-on workshops for functional teams (finance, HR, marketing, operations, etc.) to help them grasp Cloud applications, assess the impact on their tools, and adopt relevant best practices
- Customized training path design
- Design of multi-profile training plans spanning 3 to 12 months, delivered in blended formats (on-site, remote, and e-learning), with initial skill assessment and continuous progress monitoring
- Facilitating cultural change and technology adoption
- Organization of seminars, learning expeditions, webinars, and collaborative challenges to engage teams in Cloud transformation and foster the adoption of new practices in daily operations
- Monitoring skill development and measuring impact
- Skills assessment tests
- Learning progress metrics
- HR tracking dashboards
- Embedded in individual development plans and aligned with the organization’s digital transformation strategy
Nos services
No items found.
No items found.
