Regulated enterprises are under increasing pressure to launch secure digital services faster. Customers expect seamless digital experiences. Partners and contractors need controlled access. Field teams need to operate from anywhere. Internal teams need secure applications, analytics, and workflows that connect with existing enterprise systems.

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At the same time, organizations must maintain strong security, compliance, auditability, and operational control.

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The Trusted Digital Business Operations Accelerator for Enterprises is a packaged CloudMates solution designed to help organizations launch and operate secure customer-facing, partner-facing, contractor-facing, and internal digital services on AWS.

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The solution brings together CloudMates’ AWS cloud architecture, landing zone, migration, integration, and managed services expertise with Fortinet security capabilities across application protection, Zero Trust access, privileged access governance, centralized inspection, secure internet access, and security operations.

 

Solution Overview

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The Trusted Digital Business Operations Accelerator provides a repeatable AWS and Fortinet architecture for regulated and mission-critical organizations that need to modernize digital operations securely.

It helps customers create secure digital business environments for:

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• Customer portals

• Partner portals

• Claims and case management platforms

• Operations applications

• Logistics workflows

• Internal business systems

• APIs and integration platforms

• Analytics and data platforms

• Contractor and field workforce access

• Hybrid cloud and legacy system connectivity

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Instead of designing security, access, networking, and governance controls separately for every digital initiative, customers can adopt a structured solution pattern that is designed for faster deployment, stronger governance, and repeatable operations.

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Business Challenge

Many regulated enterprises want to modernize quickly, but digital programs often slow down when security, access, and integration requirements become complex.

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Common challenges include:

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• Slow launch of customer and partner-facing digital services

• Complex approval cycles for new applications and access models

• Difficulty governing partner, contractor, and field workforce access

• Limited visibility into privileged access and administrative sessions

• Inconsistent protection for public-facing applications and APIs

• Complex hybrid connectivity between AWS and existing enterprise systems

• Manual audit evidence collection and operational reporting

• Repeated security and network design work for every new initiative

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These challenges affect more than IT teams. They directly impact operations, customer experience, partner onboarding, risk management, service delivery, and business agility.

 

CloudMates solution powered by Fortinet

 

The Trusted Digital Business Operations Accelerator provides a packaged solution that combines AWS foundation services with Fortinet Security Fabric capabilities.

 

The solution is designed around six core layers.

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1. Digital Business Services Environments

 

The solution uses AWS multi-account patterns to separate production, staging, and development environments. This helps customers apply governance, security, access control, and operational visibility across different business services.

Typical AWS services include AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, Amazon VPC, IAM Identity Center, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Systems Manager.

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2. Trust Orchestration Layer

 

The Trust Orchestration Layer controls how users, administrators, partners, contractors, and field teams access business systems.

It supports identity integration, MFA, device posture, Zero Trust access policies, privileged access governance, credential control, and session auditability using Fortinet capabilities such as FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient EMS, and FortiPAM.

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3. Protected Digital Channels Layer

 

The Protected Digital Channels Layer secures customer-facing and partner-facing applications hosted on AWS.

It supports secure ingress patterns, load balancing, application protection, and web application security using AWS networking services and Fortinet capabilities such as FortiWeb.

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This layer is suitable for customer portals, partner platforms, public APIs, claims systems, service delivery platforms, and other externally accessible applications.

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4. Controlled Internet and SaaS Access Layer

 

The Controlled Internet and SaaS Access Layer helps govern outbound access from cloud workloads and users.

It supports secure egress, policy-based control, inspection, and data protection patterns using Fortinet capabilities such as FortiProxy and FortiGate, combined with AWS networking and routing controls.

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5. Central Risk Control Layer

 

The Central Risk Control Layer provides centralized inspection, segmentation, routing control, and traffic governance across the AWS environment.

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It supports north-south, east-west, and hybrid traffic inspection using AWS Transit Gateway, inspection VPC patterns, and FortiGate VM firewalls.

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This helps customers reduce risk while maintaining scalable connectivity across business workloads.

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6. Enterprise Operations and Legacy Systems Integration

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Many regulated organizations still rely on existing data centers, corporate systems, identity platforms, and legacy applications.

 

The solution supports secure hybrid connectivity between AWS and enterprise environments, enabling modernization without forcing customers to immediately re-platform every system.​​​​​​

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