Our Approach

Cloud Native Strategy

We don’t invest capital in data centers and hardware, nor do we sell incumbent solutions and maintain datacenters. Instead, we bring leading edge technology to life through Cloud. Cloud computing refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the internet with pay as you go prices.

Azure Ready Team

Bulletproof are the largest Cloud experts across Australia and New Zealand. Our advanced knowledge of the Public Cloud has enabled Bulletproof to adopt and use Azure to best practice standards in the relatively short time it has existed. Working closely with Microsoft we are one of their trusted partners in the Australia and New Zealand region.

Across execution, we focus on the following Cloud Native Principles;

• Trade capital expense for operating expense
• Benefit from massive economies of scale
• Stop guessing capacity
• Increase speed and agility
• Outsource non-core activities to reduce requirements for skills in-house & focus on core business
• Go global in minutes
• 100% AWS Certified Architects & Engineers
• Azure Expertise

Secure by Default

One of the core fundamentals of Bulletproof is our focus on Secure AWS Infrastructure by Default. We implement best practice security architectures for the Cloud which align with the AWS ‘Shared Responsibility Model’ and implement Tier 3+ secure systems as a default component of using our expertise.

Being Secure by Default means;

• Infrastructure configured with Idempotent security patterns
• Multi factor authentication tokens stored in a safety deposit box with annual rotation
• Encryption key annual rotation
• Encryption in transit and at rest where necessary
• Web application firewalls and unified threat management across all infrastructure
• Subnet segregation and best practice implementation
• Pro-active threat scanning, authentication monitoring and change control
• All API’s, Logs and AWS access recorded and proactively monitored with alerting
• Quarterly security audits
• Best practice identity & access management
• Automation is implemented meaning no human intervention

Ruthless Automation

An unparalleled benefit of leveraging Cloud and specifically AWS and Azure is the rigorous automation applied to infrastructure. At Bulletproof we look at Infrastructure as Code, not as virtual machines or servers like that of traditional incumbents. AWS and Azure are platforms as a service and therefore platform services should be utilised where servers aren’t necessary. Read about our serverless Big Data architecture here.

Eliminate Human Error

Whether we are re-hosting, re-platforming, or re-factoring your infrastructure or applications for Cloud, Bulletproof can implement tailored automation in order for your organisation to start leveraging the breadth of benefits of Cloud.

We build rigorous automation around our AWS and Azure Platforms, meaning;

• Agility and increased innovation
• Immutability & cost optimisation
• Decreased TCO
• Increased uptime & self-healing infrastructure
• Limited need for human intervention, eliminating security risks and human error
• Ease of management
• AWS Automation
• Azure Automation

Design for Failure

Mission critical is a mindset - we think differently and look around corners to head off problems other people haven’t even dreamed of. Failure costs time and opportunity as well as money. That’s why Bulletproof design with the expectation that things can break.

Always Available

We build Cloud infrastructure that is always Highly Available, coupled with automation to be self-healing and fault-tolerant. Leveraging the dozens of AWS data centers and regions, we build distributed systems that simply, just work.

We take the headache out of complex management and overheads that High Availability can create, and warrant “Guaranteed Uptime” through our managed services program.

What does Always Available mean?

• 99.99% uptime
• Self-healing through immutable infrastructure
• Mitigation from isolated datacenter issues
• Distribution across multiple datacenters that are geographically independent
• Business Continuity assurance