CBSA is seeking subject matter expertise and access to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) Engagement Delivery Framework (EDF) – AWS’ unique collection of methodologies, intellectual property and processes developed by Amazon will mitigate some of the risks and provide a roadmap for the CBSA AWS cloud journey for which AWS’ professional services have exclusivity. EDF is AWS’ professional services Engagement Delivery Framework (EDF) that has been tried, tested and proven. Amazon, using their proprietary EDF, will securely migrate CBSA’s protected B applications to the AWS cloud by leveraging the intellectual property (IP) under Amazon cloud services (AWS) as the provider of critical key support for this initiative.
Cloud computing, utilizing AWS cloud services, will provide an efficient and effective way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. Through the adoption of cloud technologies, CBSA will realize the following benefits:
Service performance that will dramatically reduce the time needed to meet business and technical requirements. It includes metrics-based service levels that are contractually enforced to help keep performance levels consistent.
Security by cloud service providers that offer robust security features and internationally recognized certifications that would be a challenge for the CBSA to deliver on its own.
Innovation that includes new features that are being deployed continually, and the costs are amortized across a global service customer base. New technologies such as social media, mobile platforms and analytic tools are all available through subscriptions without large capital investments.
Agility which includes rapid access to multi-featured resources at the required capacity to carry out projects from planning to full operation.
Elasticity which permits commoditized services to grow and shrink based on the level of demand; the CBSA will pay only for what they need when they need it.
CBSA has a requirement to deliver on Government of Canada priorities as well as modernize the applications it transitions to the cloud environment in line with the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) directives - the Direction on the Secure Use of Commercial Cloud Services: Security Policy Implementation Notice and the Direction for Electronic Data Residency.
AWS is a secure cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and their proprietary EDF that will help the CBSA transition to the AWS cloud.
