ACCELERATE INNOVATION, improve operations , OPTIMIZE COSTS.
Cloud computing has opened new doors that allow organizations to focus on higher priorities by cutting costs and pointing teams toward innovation and customer value. Whether optimizing or migrating your company to the cloud, we bring years of experience to the table in a cloud agnostic manner.
At Impact Makers, we leverage a customized and mature practice to enable customers to see all facets of their cloud ecosystem. Every project has unique elements that must be incorporated into a comprehensive strategy in addition to identification and execution of technical work.
Our customized framework includes frameworks of the Center for Internet Security (CIS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), vendor best practices, and industry best practices in addition to including unique client elements. We have a process to recognize and address areas including security, technical debt, asset and metadata management, business strategy alignment, service portfolio management, support model definition, service design and deploy, CloudOps and others.
We work with our customers to deliver and enable strategic business advantage with cloud services.
Impact Makers is an Amazon Web Services technology consultancy that helps businesses of all sizes establish business value and execute Cloud strategies through their industry-leading cloud framework methodology. We’ve earned AWS Advanced Partner status, in recognition of our expert capability and experience to guide clients, develop solutions, deliver efficiency, and support AWS Cloud solutions. The company’s team has extensive AWS expertise and DevOps experience that ensures well architected, reliable, secure, and cost optimized solutions. We work with our customers to deliver and enable strategic business advantage with cloud services.
Technologies
CI/CD
- Github
- Jenkins
- AWS Code Pipeline
- AWS Code Commit
- AWS Code Deploy
Serverless Platforms
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ECS
- EKS
Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS CloudFormation
- Azure Resource Manager
- scripting / python / powershell / bash
Database
- NoSQL
- RDBMS
- AWS RDS
- Azure databases as a service
Hybrid Cloud
- VPN
- DaaS
- Vmware
- Monitoring, DNS
Identity
- IAM
- Active Directory
- SSO
- SAML
- OAuth
OS
- Windows
- Linux
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Engineering, Healthcare, Cloud Computing, Data Strategy
The Current State of Cloud Security
Advisory, Engineering, Homepage News, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskBy: Herman Boma, Lead Architect, Impact Makers In the Summer of 2021, Herman Boma, Lead Cloud & Big Data Architect......
APIs for Sharing Healthcare Data
Advisory, Engineering, Healthcare, Homepage News, Interoperability, AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Strategy, Healthcare, Security & RiskBy: Kevin Cox, AWS SSA, CCSK, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers This is the second post in a series about sharing......
New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data
Advisory, Engineering, Healthcare, Homepage News, Interoperability, AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Strategy, Data Warehousing, Healthcare, Security & RiskBy: Kevin Cox, AWS SSA, CCSK, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers Why would providers, payers, and consumers share Healthcare data? Healthcare as an industry......
Advantages of Enterprise Cloud Computing for Mid-Tier Enterprises
Advisory, Engineering, Homepage News, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Data WarehousingWithout a doubt the advantages of migration to cloud computing and operational adoption have been a foundational game-changer for large organizations. However, cloud computing is fast becoming a change agent for Mid-Tier Enterprises...
Advantages of Desktop as a Service
Advisory, Architecture, Cloud ComputingDesktop as a Service, or ‘DaaS’, represents computers that you access over a network and remotely control just like a normal computer. That network could be the internet or a company network. You can be hundreds of miles away from a desktop....
Moving to the Cloud – A 2 Part Educational Series
Engineering, Cloud Computing, Data StrategyCloud computing is one of the most transformational technologies available to business leaders today. From the cloud springs innovation, speed, cost savings and better customer experience. Cloud computing can mean running software...
Financial Services Transformation
Financial Services, Architecture, Cloud ComputingWhen a large, influential financial services company was implementing Platform as a Service (PaaS), they realized that their operating model needed a significant amount of automation to improve operations in both the existing and new...
How can a Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Solution help my team monitor the cloud?
Advisory, Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskThere are hundreds of monitoring products in the marketplace that cover monitoring from enterprise scale to small and medium businesses. How can a monitoring system help your team? It is imperative that an IT team know the state of the...
What is technical debt & how can I avoid it in AWS?
Advisory, Engineering, Architecture, AWS, Cloud ComputingThe term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt is incurred by completing work in a swift way with...
Infrastructure-As-Code in the Cloud & Why it Matters in DevSecOps
Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, DevSecOpsInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is the practice of defining templates that can be used to provision technology infrastructure to support software and applications. Traditionally, physical hardware configuration of network...
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Company, AWS, Big Data, Cloud ComputingImpact Makers is very excited to announce that we recently achieved Advanced Consulting Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS). For reference, AWS is a cloud computing platform that offers over 100 services, and the Amazon...
My Cloud Journey as an Early Adopter
Engineering, Financial Services, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskEver heard the saying, “The Cloud is just someone else’s computer”? This is one of the many arguments I encountered as I became an early adopter in 2010. While it is technically true, it misses the point: the inherent flexibility and...
What We Learned from MS Azure Bootcamp
Company, Recruiting, Architecture, Cloud Computing, MicrosoftThe brain power was palpable. We hosted the Global Azure Bootcamp at our space in Richmond, Virginia, and the attendees were ready to tackle some big cloud issues during breakouts and presentations. We asked attendees to fill out a...
Amazon Web Services Publishes Case Study on Impact Makers’ Project
Advisory, Company, Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, DevSecOpsAmazon Web Services (AWS) published a case study on Impact Makers’ project with MedStar Health. Impact Makers used AWS to support a new digital presence for MedStar. The collaboration with AWS provides a state-of-the-art platform that...
