CLOUD & IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
CLOUD & IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
Avalon takes the cloud your agency already bought and makes it secure, compliant, and in production in weeks, with the configuration evidence your assessors will ask for.
Avalon turns a purchased cloud product, a collaboration suite, a SaaS platform, or IaaS infrastructure, into a configured, secured, connected, and adopted operational capability your own staff can run.
THE PROBLEM & THE APPROACH
The Challenge
Our Approach
A purchased cloud service that is never properly stood up stalls the mission it was bought for, systems wait for environments, users stay on end-of-life platforms.
Avalon provisions the tenant or landing zone, federates identity, migrates initial data in capped waves, and trains the administrators, ending with a documented, supportable environment.
CISA's Binding Operational Directive 25-01 made secure configuration of in-scope SaaS a reportable obligation, and mandatory baseline conformance is required before an ATO is granted for a new cloud tenant.
CISA SCuBA Secure Configuration Baselines are applied and verified with ScubaGear or ScubaGoggles, delivering baseline conformance before ATO exactly as the directive requires.
Licenses that sit idle are pure waste, and a landing zone built wrong, no tagging, no guardrails, sprawling accounts, generates the exact overspend Avalon's FinOps offering later gets hired to find.
Every workstream terminates in evidence, with a tagging and cost-allocation standard installed from day one as the precondition for a credible FinOps engagement later.
Misconfiguration, not vendor compromise, is the dominant initial-access vector CISA cites in federal cloud incidents, the customer-configured half of the shared responsibility model is where breaches actually start.
Avalon's baseline-first methodology means no production data lands in an environment before mandatory baselines pass, with every configuration change tagged to a control ID as it's made.
CORE CAPABILITIES
Government tenant standup, identity federation, and mandatory security baseline conformance for platforms like Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, or Salesforce.
The account structure, network connectivity, identity controls, logging, and guardrails every workload will depend on, plus a pilot workload to prove the platform.
Configuration workbooks and control-implementation evidence packs ready for direct use in your SSP, plus training for the people who run it.
OUR PROCESS
Accounts and credentials issued, success criteria set, and the government-dependency schedule signed. (1-2 weeks)
Current-state review, Customer Responsibility Matrix walkthrough, and the wave plan finalized. (2-3 weeks)
Tenant or landing-zone standup, identity federation, network path, logging, and mandatory baselines applied. (3-6 weeks)
SIEM export, ticketing hooks, and a pilot user group or workload validated against acceptance criteria. (2-4 weeks)
Phased migration or deployment waves with hypercare per wave. (2-6 weeks, scaling with wave count)
Re-scan, evidence pack assembly, runbooks, training, and closeout. (1-2 weeks)
WHY AVALON
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Federal Frameworks Addressed
Security-Baseline-First Implementation
Most boutiques in this space are either single-vendor migration shops that are fast but evidence-light, or compliance advisors that are evidence-fluent but hands-off-keyboard. Avalon does both at once.
An Avalon implementation starts in weeks with the actual senior engineers who scoped it, at task sizes large systems integrators decline to price aggressively.
Every change is mapped to a control ID at the moment it's made, the same audit-rigor DNA as Avalon's forensic FinOps practice.
Avalon runs both the SaaS tenant motion and the IaaS landing-zone motion, so an agency doesn't need one vendor for the tenant and another for the landing zone.
Fixed fee with tightly bounded assumptions and a published unit-price menu for overages, accountability at a size large integrators decline to price aggressively.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Straight answers about what implementation gets you, and what it deliberately doesn't promise.
Talk to Our Team →5
Federal Frameworks Addressed
Don't displace, carve out. Avalon proposes the discrete, dated deliverable the incumbent hasn't staffed, like a SCuBA remediation or landing-zone guardrails, at a fixed price with a fixed date. If the incumbent could have done it inside their scope, it would already be done.
No. It produces the environment and an assessor-ready evidence pack; the authorization is your Authorizing Official's decision and a separate process. We under-promise here deliberately, the gap between 'assessor-ready' and 'authorized' is exactly where oversold claims do damage.
Resellers monetize the license sale; CSP professional services monetize consumption. Neither is structurally incentivized to minimize footprint or to produce assessor-ready evidence keyed to your Customer Responsibility Matrix. That evidence is Avalon's deliverable.
Evidence-first implementation is precisely what shortens that timeline: baseline conformance and control evidence are produced during the build, and for new civilian tenants BOD 25-01 requires baseline implementation before ATO, instead of reconstructing evidence afterward.
Avalon delivers in bounded waves with a two-to-four person senior team and claims only the capacity it currently supports. Fixed price transfers schedule risk to Avalon. Small means senior people on keyboard, not layers of program office.
Avalon says so plainly. What stands behind the bid: verified key-personnel certification history, adjacent commercial and subcontract delivery, and a proposed entry task under the simplified acquisition threshold the agency can use to evaluate Avalon at low dollar risk.
No. Waves are numbered SOW quantities. Enterprise-wide workload or data migration beyond the named waves is Cloud Migration & Development, scoped and priced separately, this service includes the pilot and initial waves only.
Talk to Avalon about scoping a SCuBA gap assessment or a fixed-price SaaS/IaaS implementation.