Business outcome
Use this capability when the framework shows that availability, access, recovery, security, data movement, or infrastructure risk is interrupting the people and systems required to keep a customer promise.
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Cloud Security & Compliance
Protect business-critical workloads, sensitive data, and partner access in the cloud.
Operationally complex businesses may hold controlled technical data, customer information, financial records, product or service data, partner records, and operating history under different obligations. We map the actual data and access boundaries, then engineer cloud controls, evidence, monitoring, and ownership around them.
Launchpad assesses the operating need and creates the Roadmap. We engineer this capability when the approved plan calls for it.
A strong fit when
- SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, or industry audits assume controls that were never designed for a cloud environment
- IAM, encryption, and network segmentation get bolted on after migration instead of designed in from the start
- Backup and disaster recovery plans don't match what auditors or customers actually require
- Nobody can show a clean audit trail connecting cloud access to who touched what data and when
Why this service exists
Connect the technology decision to the work the manufacturing business must control.
System responsibility
Cloud engineering provides the controlled infrastructure, access, connectivity, security, observability, backup, and recovery that connected business systems require.
Ownership and control
The manufacturer should understand workload dependencies, access, recovery objectives, cost, controls, vendors, and the operating practices required to change or recover the environment.
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The Problem
Cloud controls are not mapped to the data, workloads, users, and obligations they must protect.
Cloud problems begin when workloads move or grow without a clear account of the business dependencies, access, recovery, security, monitoring, ownership, and cost behind them.
What leaders see
Reliability, access, and cost are difficult to explain.
Teams know the infrastructure matters but cannot connect incidents, spending, recovery, or performance to the work it supports.
What is actually happening
The workload has no complete operating model.
Dependencies, controls, recovery objectives, monitoring, and ownership are distributed across tools, vendors, and individual knowledge.
What gets worse
Migration moves the uncertainty instead of resolving it.
The platform changes while weak access, integration, recovery, cost, and support practices remain.
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What changes
Make the operating responsibility visible and governable.
Operationally complex businesses may hold controlled technical data, customer information, financial records, product or service data, partner records, and operating history under.
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Operating outcome
Protect business-critical workloads, sensitive data, and partner access in the cloud.
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Workloads and controls to protect
business applications, databases and files, identity and access
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Decision and exception path
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
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Ownership and continuity
Cloud work needs documented workload dependencies, access rules, recovery objectives, security controls, monitoring, cost ownership, and a tested operating model.
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Architecture
Build the service around the business record and decision.
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
01Source record
02Governed connection
03Validation
04Business system
05Accountable owner
Workloads and controls to protect
business applicationsdatabases and filesidentity and accessintegrations and networksbackup and recovery
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Engineering scope
What Metrotechs engineers for Cloud Security & Compliance.
The exact scope follows the approved business objective, source records, dependencies, controls, and delivery sequence.
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Identity & Access Management
Role-based access control, least-privilege policies, MFA enforcement, and service account governance. Every user and system has exactly the access they need and nothing more.
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Network Security
VPC segmentation, security groups, WAF, DDoS protection, and private connectivity to on-premise. Network architecture designed to isolate workloads and limit blast radius.
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Encryption
Data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+). Key management with customer-managed keys where compliance requires it. Encryption applied consistently across all storage and communication layers.
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Compliance Frameworks
Architecture designed to meet SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and industry-specific requirements. Control mapping documentation that auditors can use directly.
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Backup & Disaster Recovery
Automated backups with defined RPO/RTO targets, cross-region replication for critical workloads, and documented DR procedures that are tested regularly — not just written.
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Security Monitoring & Incident Response
Cloud-native security monitoring (GuardDuty, Security Center), centralized logging, alert routing, and documented incident response procedures. Threats detected and responded to, not just logged.
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Delivery sequence
From operating reality to a solution the business can own.
Compliance Assessment
Identify all compliance requirements — regulatory, contractual, and internal policy. Map requirements to cloud security controls and identify gaps.
Security Architecture
Design the security architecture — IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, and DR — with controls mapped to each compliance requirement.
Implementation
Implement security controls as infrastructure-as-code for consistency and auditability. Every control is version-controlled and reproducible.
Validation & Audit Prep
Validate controls against compliance requirements. Generate control documentation, evidence packages, and audit-ready reports.
Related services and systems
Continue through the connected operating environment.
Use these connected services and references to understand the records, workflows, and systems surrounding this work.
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FAQ
Questions to answer before implementation begins.
Clear answers for manufacturing leaders evaluating the work, operating responsibility, and delivery path.
Yes. AWS GovCloud and Azure Government provide ITAR-compliant infrastructure. We design the architecture to ensure ITAR-controlled data stays within compliant regions and access is restricted to US persons as required.