Managed Big Data Platform
Fully managed big data, open date and data warehouse platform for managing data at petabyte scale and enabling simple and efficient analysis of the data using existing or new business intelligence tools. Full 24 x7 support and single point of management for ease of use and maximum availability
Features
- Suitable for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE workloads
- Data centres available from 3 UK regions including the UK
- Based on AWS set of Big Data Tools including Redshift
- Connectivity Options including PSN, JANET and N3
- Fast Query and I/O Performance
- Parallel Queries across multiple nodes
- Custom JDBC/ODBC drivers for download
- Fully Managed Service with 24 x 7 Option
- Full proactive ITIL service management / service improvements
- Open Data Platform integration
Benefits
- Fully integrated Big Data platform across constituent AWS services
- Fully enabled backup and disaster recovery processes
- Automated provisioning, configuring and monitoring a cloud data warehouse
- Rapidly scalable to support highly dynamic data loads
- Comprehensive logging and security
- Role Based access control across platform
- Single interface point for management and support
- Integration capability with other platforms (Cloudera, Solr, ElasticSearch)
- Platform for provision of open data service (public sector data)
Pricing
£1,000 a unit a month
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 9
Service ID
4 7 6 7 6 4 6 7 1 9 5 3 1 4 1
Contact
Zaizi Limited
Andrew Hawkins
Telephone: 0203 582 8330
Email: sales@zaizi.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- This platform makes use of AWS services
- System requirements
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Zaizi offer Level 2 and Level 3 support service supporting the application, platform and infrastructure as required. We operate under an ITIL model incorporating a Continual Improvement (CI) and automated testing approach. Support is offered for: Core Business Hours 8:00 – 18:00 Extended Business hours (not weekends and Bank Holidays) 24/7 Support Via UK and Overseas Support Desk Zaizi prioritises all issues raised aiming to resolve within agreed response and resolution times, the table below provides the typical response times offered. P1: Response 1hr, target resolution 4hrs P2: Response 2hr, target resolution 24hrs P3: Response 4hrs, target 5 business days
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Zaizi offer Level 2 and Level 3 support service supporting the application, platform and infrastructure as required. We operate under an ITIL model incorporating a Continual Improvement (CI) and automated testing approach. Support is offered for: Core Business Hours 8:00 – 18:00 Extended Business hours (not weekends and Bank Holidays) 24/7 Support Via UK and Overseas Support Desk Zaizi prioritises all issues raised aiming to resolve within agreed response and resolution times, the table below provides the typical response times offered. P1: Response 1hr, target resolution 4hrs P2: Response 2hr, target resolution 24hrs P3: Response 4hrs, target 5 business days
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- We offer onsite training and offsite training on the service at additional cost and document the service and SLA
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- ODF
- End-of-contract data extraction
- We provide an off boarding service which is charged at T&M. The scope of the support and work required will be scoped on notice of termination.
- End-of-contract process
- All off boarding and final documentation will be chargeable however our services are designed around open systems and to be as flexible for client on-boarding and off boarding as feasible.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- No
- API
- No
- Command line interface
- No
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
- Automatic
- Independence of resources
- Our management processes monitor and assess performance for each client and our service scales accordingly to ensure performance baselines our met
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
-
- Other
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
- CPU
- Disk
- HTTP request and response status
- Memory
- Reporting types
-
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Amazon Web Services
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2012
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
-
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- AWS adheres to independently validated privacy, data protection, security protections and control processes. (Listed under “certifications”). AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud; customers are responsible for security in the cloud. AWS enables customers to control their content (where it will be stored, how it will be secured in transit or at rest, how access to their AWS environment will be managed). Wherever appropriate, AWS offers customers options to add additional security layers to data at rest, via scalable and efficient encryption features. AWS offers flexible key management options and dedicated hardware-based cryptographic key storage.
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
-
- Machine Images
- Files
- Databases
- Backup controls
- Backup schedule is agreed as part of the service agreement and SLA
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Scheduling backups
- Users contact the support team to schedule backups
- Backup recovery
- Users contact the support team
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Individual SLA's are agreed with each client
- Approach to resilience
- The AWS Business Continuity plan details the process that AWS follows in the case of an outage, from detection to deactivation. AWS has developed a three-phased approach: Activation and Notification Phase, Recovery Phase, and Reconstitution Phase. This approach ensures that AWS performs system recovery and reconstitution efforts in a methodical sequence, maximizing the effectiveness of the recovery and reconstitution efforts and minimizing system outage time due to errors and omissions. AWS maintains a ubiquitous security control environment across all regions. Each data centre is built to physical, environmental, and security standards in an active-active configuration, employing an n+1 redundancy model, ensuring system availability in the event of component failure. Components (N) have at least one independent backup component. All data centres are online and serving traffic. In case of failure, there is sufficient capacity to enable traffic to be load-balanced to the remaining sites. Customers are responsible for implementing contingency planning, training and testing for their systems hosted on AWS. AWS provides customers with the capability to implement a robust continuity plan, including the utilization of frequent server instance back-ups, data redundancy replication, and the flexibility to place instances and store data within multiple geographic regions across multiple Availability Zones.
- Outage reporting
- Email alerts and support calls. AWS also have a public dashboard available how we expect to proactively any outages with the client
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
- Limited access network (for example PSN)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- All access is managed through Zaizi support calls. Within the AWS environment AWS controls access via unique user ID/password authentication. No actions are permissible without authentication. Remote access is multi-factor, login attempts are limited, remote administrative access attempts are logged and reviewed by Security. Suspicious activity initiates incident response procedures. A session lock out policy that is systematically enforced: locks are retained until identification/authentication procedures are concluded. AWS’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system controls access to AWS services/resources. IAM facilitates the issuance of access permissions per user/group. MFA is available at no extra cost
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- 2-factor authentication
- Devices users manage the service through
- Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users receive audit information on a regular basis
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users receive audit information on a regular basis
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Bureau Veritas
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 21/4/2015
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- The following is excluded from the scope of Zaizi’s Statement of ISO 27001:2013 Statement of Applicability: A.11.2.4 – Equipment Maintenance Reason - No fixed asset has high-value (i.e. >£3k) are depreciated on purchase and have no residual value after 3 years. Items considered beyond economic local repair are the subject of straight replacement from new. Servers are leased and cloud-based and out of scope of this requirement. A.11.1.5 – Working in secure areas. Reason Zaizi does not operate a system of permanent secure areas. Secure area working is restricted to customer sites in accordance with current HMG information classification guidelines. Working on-premise is constrained to the HMG classification of OFFICIAL. A.14.2.7 – Outsourced Development. Reason - Zaizi does not outsource the development of software (it is a software development house).
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security accreditations
- Yes
- Any other security accreditations
- Cyber Essentials
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance accreditation
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- We are fully ISO27001 assured and follow standard procedures. Our processes are reviewed internally at management level at regular intervals during the year, including our Chief Exec and CSIO. Incidents are managed by our CSIO and by the process alerted to the Management team
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- Ziazi follows ITIL processes for service delivery including compliance to ISO27001. The AWS platform. Changes to AWS services and features follow secure software development practices, including security risk reviews prior to launch. Developer access to production environments is via explicit access system requests, subject to owner review and authorisation. Teams set bespoke change management standards per service, underpinned by standard AWS guidelines. All production environment changes are reviewed, tested and approved. Stages include design, documentation, implementation (including rollback procedures), testing (non-production environment), peer to peer review (business impact/technical rigour/code), final approval by authorised party.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- AWS Security performs vulnerability scans on the host operating system, web applications, and databases in the AWS environment. Approved 3rd party vendors conduct external assessments (minimum frequency: quarterly). Identified vulnerabilities are monitored and evaluated. Countermeasures are designed and implemented to neutralise known/newly identified vulnerabilities. AWS Security monitors newsfeeds/vendor sites for patches and receives customer intelligence via http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/. AWS customers are responsible for all scanning, penetration testing, file integrity monitoring and intrusion detection for their Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS instances/ applications. Scans should include customer IP addresses (not AWS endpoints). AWS endpoint testing is part of AWS compliance vulnerability scans.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- AWS deploys (pan-environmental) monitoring devices to collect information on unauthorized intrusion attempts, usage abuse, and network/application bandwidth usage. Devices monitor: • Port scanning attacks • Usage (CPU, processes, disk utilization, swap rates, software-error generated losses) • Application metrics • Unauthorized connection attempts Near real-time alerts flag potential compromise incidents, based on AWS Service/Security Team- set thresholds. Requests to AWS KMS are logged and visible via the account’s AWS CloudTrail Amazon S3 bucket. Logs provide request information, under which CMK, and identify the AWS resource protected through the CMK use
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- AWS adopts a three-phased approach to manage incidents: 1. Activation and Notification Phase 2. Recovery Phase 3. Reconstitution Phase To ensure the effectiveness of the AWS Incident Management plan, AWS conducts incident response testing, providing excellent coverage for the discovery of defects and failure modes as well as testing the systems for potential customer impact. The Incident Response Test Plan is executed annually, in conjunction with the Incident Response plan. It includes multiple scenarios, potential vectors of attack, the inclusion of the systems integrator in reporting and coordination and varying reporting/detection avenues.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Third-party
- Third-party virtualisation provider
- Amazon Web Services
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
- Customer environments are logically segregated, preventing users and customers from accessing unassigned resources. Customers maintain full control over their data access. Services which provide virtualized operational environments to customers, ensure that customers are segregated and prevent cross-tenant privilege escalation and information disclosure via hypervisors and instance isolation. Different instances running on the same physical machine are isolated from each other via the Xen hypervisor. The Amazon EC2 firewall resides within the hypervisor layer, between the physical network interface and the instance's virtual interface. All packets pass through this layer. The physical random-access memory (RAM) is separated using similar mechanisms.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
Pricing
- Price
- £1,000 a unit a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
Documents
- Pricing document
- Pricing document
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card
- Terms and conditions document
- Terms and conditions document
Service documents
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