nClouds AWS Case Study
Fullcast Fuels
Go-to-Market Success
nClouds Secures AWS Infrastructure, Optimizes Operations
“Carlos and the team are fantastic. Their engineers are top notch, and the customer experience has been excellent.”
— Bala Balabaskaran —
CTO, Fullcast
Benefits Summary
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Reduction in Unauthorized Access
Lower Annual Operational Overhead
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Less Time Preparing for Audits
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Savings in Infrastructure and Operations
Faster Deployment Cycles
About Fullcast
Fullcast, a leader in Go-to-Market cloud solutions, needed to enhance its AWS security posture and optimize its application infrastructure to fuel rapid growth. Partnering with nClouds, Fullcast achieved significant improvements in security, scalability, and operational efficiency, setting the stage for accelerated expansion.
Fullcast’s mission is to build the Go-to-Market Cloud. Fullcast enables companies to build better territories and win more deals through maximizing revenue, improving productivity of sales teams and increasing revenue. Fullcast connects Go-to-Market planning activities with tactical sales execution, enabling operations, sales, finance and customer success teams to make continuous adjustments in response to real-time strategy changes.
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Challenge
Fullcast engaged nClouds to address critical challenges in securing and optimizing its AWS environment and modernizing its application infrastructure.
This multifaceted engagement focused on four key areas:
A comprehensive audit and remediation of AWS Control Tower to ensure alignment with business objectives and best practices.
A thorough review and enhancement of IAM access controls (users, groups, and SCPs) to eliminate security vulnerabilities and streamline permissions
A similar audit and update of MySQL database access controls to achieve comprehensive security across the application stack.
nClouds migrated Fullcast’s Heroku workloads to Amazon App Runner, simultaneously auditing and updating access controls to align with AWS best practices and ensure seamless integration with existing AWS services.
Why AWS and nClouds?
Fullcast engaged nClouds because of its proven expertise in migrating workloads to AWS and in building SaaS solutions, and its ability to deliver comprehensive solutions to protect their entire cloud and infrastructure environment. nClouds’ services enhance security posture and ensure compliance with industry regulations, allowing Fullcast to focus on what matters most—growing their business.
Strategy and Solution
The project had a broad scope focusing on maintaining secure and efficient access control and identity management access controls across different services. In most cases, these services were already implemented, but required a reconfiguration and update to ensure alignment with business objectives and best practices.
The engagement began with an exhaustive review of Fullcast’s current AWS infrastructure utilizing AWS’ Well-Architected Framework (WAFR). The WAFR Review is a mechanism used to teach, measure, and improve a workload based upon the customer’s business and technical objectives within their AWS Infrastructure. This is to provide the groundwork necessary to increase the existing infrastructure’s performance, security, and efficiency while optimizing their overall AWS Running Costs.
Following the WAFR review, an assessment and remediation of access controls and identity management was carried out on the following areas:
- Audit AWS Control Tower implementation and identify any gaps in services that would align with business objectives or are out of alignment with best practices. Findings were reviewed with Fullcast stakeholders and documented, before changes and updates to Control Tower were implemented.
- Audit access controls within IAM including users, groups, and SCPs to identify required access and controls. Findings were reviewed with Fullcast stakeholders and documented, before changes and updates to IAM including updating users, roles, and SCPs were implemented.
- Audit access controls internally within the MySQL database to identify gaps in controls that align with business requirements, and best practices. Findings were reviewed with Fullcast stakeholders and documented, before updates to MySQL designed to close gaps and gain better alignment with business requirements and best practices were implemented.
Finally, nClouds completed migration of Heroku workloads to Amazon App Runner.
- Fullcast was running two Dynos in pre-production and 1 in development, and they were consuming approximately 42 Dyno units on Heroku. The applications were stateless and had been deployed on Heroku with build packs, so nClouds designed and implemented best-practice containerization of applications to be deployed to Amazon Apprunner and, and ensured seamless integration with other connected AWS services.
This multi-faceted approach aimed to establish a strong, secure, and compliant identity and access management system that aligns with industry best practices and meets the evolving requirements of Fullcast’s business, and provide proper containerization of applications to be deployed to Amazon Apprunner.
Results + Benefits
Fullcast’s partnership with nClouds demonstrates the power of a strategic approach to cloud optimization. By focusing on security, efficiency, and application modernization, Fullcast significantly enhanced its operational capabilities and fueled substantial growth. Contact nClouds to learn how we can help your organization achieve similar results.
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Reduction in unauthorized access
Improved Security Posture
nClouds’ IAM solution reduced unauthorized access incidents by 85%, significantly minimizing the risk of data breaches and potential costs—saving an estimated $1.2M annually in breach-related risk exposure (based on Ponemon Institute averages).
$150K
Lower Annual Operational Overhead
Increased Operational Efficiency
Streamlined access controls freed up 20–30% of IT support hours, allowing teams to focus on innovation and reducing operational overhead by approximately $150K/year.
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Less Time Preparing for Audits
Simplified Compliance
Automated access provisioning and audit trails led to a 50% reduction in compliance audit preparation time, accelerating SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR readiness and reducing external audit costs by $25K+ annually.
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Savings in Infrastructure
and Operations
Cloud Cost Optimization
via Amazon App Runner
Migration to Amazon App Runner delivered up to 40% cost savings in infrastructure and operations compared to traditional compute services, while improving deployment speed and scalability.
Faster Deployment Cycles
Enhanced Developer Velocity
With App Runner, dev teams achieved 2x faster deployment cycles and reduced time-to-market by up to 50%, contributing to faster feature delivery and improved customer satisfaction.