How Did EDF India and AceCloud Build a Secure, Compliant and Cost-Optimized Enterprise Cloud Environment?

About Company

EDF India is the Indian operations of EDF Group, one of the world’s largest electricity producers.

The company operates critical energy infrastructure and enterprise IT workloads that require strong security, high availability, compliance governance and operational reliability. As EDF India expanded its AWS adoption, it needed a managed cloud partner that could operate its cloud environment at enterprise scale while meeting the standards expected in the energy and utilities sector.

Challenges

• Maintaining continuous compliance across critical energy and enterprise IT workloads.
• Meeting EDF Group’s global data governance, security and audit-readiness standards.
• Managing a multi-account AWS environment across different business units and projects.
• Enforcing security policies, resource governance and cost attribution across accounts.
• Ensuring high availability for project management platforms, engineering repositories and finance applications.
• Building tested disaster recovery procedures with defined RTO and RPO targets.
• Reducing the operational burden on internal IT teams responsible for business applications.
• Applying infrastructure patches, handling incidents and managing cloud operations at scale.
• Improving cloud cost accountability, forecasting and optimization across the AWS estate.

Solutions

• AceCloud serves as EDF India’s primary AWS managed services partner.
• Multi-account AWS Landing Zone managed by AceCloud, including AWS Organizations governance, Service Control Policies and centralized logging.
• Day-to-day operations of EC2 fleets, RDS databases, VPC configurations and supporting infrastructure handled by AceCloud.
• AWS Systems Manager used for patching, configuration management and operational control.
• Capacity planning, infrastructure maintenance and performance optimization managed on an ongoing basis.
• Infrastructure changes governed through CloudFormation and Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
• Version control, peer review and change governance managed by AceCloud for all infrastructure updates.
• Continuous security monitoring operated through Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail.
• Cross-account security findings correlated and prioritized for remediation.
• Regular AWS Well-Architected Reviews conducted with formal remediation plans tracked to closure.
• IAM Identity Center, least-privilege policies and quarterly access reviews managed by AceCloud.
• Automated compliance evidence collection and audit-ready reporting delivered on a defined schedule.
• Disaster recovery procedures designed, implemented and tested for EDF India’s critical workloads.
• AWS Backup and cross-region backup management used to support business continuity.
• Documented RTO and RPO targets created for each workload tier.
• Regular DR drills conducted, with results reported to EDF India leadership.
• Monthly FinOps reports delivered with cost attribution by business unit, project and AWS account.
• Reserved Instance and Savings Plans management, rightsizing and idle resource cleanup executed monthly.
• Automated budget alerts and cost anomaly detection implemented to prevent overruns.
• CI/CD pipeline operations supported for faster and safer deployments.
• Structured change management operated through CAB participation, change risk assessment and post-implementation reviews.

AceCloud: Your Trusted AWS Partner

At AceCloud, we take a 100% customer-centric approach to cloud services. As an AWS Advanced Partner, we work together with AWS to design tailored solutions that meet the specific needs of today’s digitally transforming businesses. 

Our Partners

At AceCloud, we’re proud to be an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, leveraging our expertise to deliver innovative cloud infrastructure and application solutions. Our collaborations extend to industry leaders like Proofpoint and CrowdStrike, ensuring top-tier managed security services. We also provide seamless virtual workspace solutions powered by the Citrix Platform, enabling businesses to work efficiently from anywhere. 

Published By: Akhil Khandelwal

Akhil, Senior Manager of AWS Migration at AceCloud, has over 13 years of experience in the IT industry. His technical expertise is backed by an impressive array of certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS SysOps Administrator, and ITIL v3. Follow him on LinkedIn.