Businesses with multiple offices and locations face many challenges in keeping data and communication secure and consistent. For example, offices located in different time zones or distant geographic areas may face communication delays or develop data silos, leading to inefficiencies. Failing to unify security protocols can also make some offices more vulnerable to breaches than others.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers multi-location businesses the right solutions to address these issues, helping you create secure and efficient workspaces.
AWS Solutions for Enhanced Communication
Integrating common communication tools across all offices and locations ensures all team members are on the same page. These AWS tools are flexible, scalable, and enable real-time, seamless communication:
- Amazon Chime. Enables secure screen-sharing, audio chat, and video conferencing through AWS, unifying communications tools in a single platform.
Integrating Chime into your organisation is an excellent solution to mobilise your workforce across all locations. Each team will have access to standardised tools with a consistent, unified user experience, streamlining document sharing and collaboration tasks.
Collaborative Tools on AWS
If your multi-office organisation needs additional solutions to enhance collaboration, consider integrating AWS WorkSpaces. This Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution is customisable and scalable to meet different office needs, helping each location scale up or down seamlessly according to your organisation’s projects.
AWS WorkSpaces can be preconfigured with the operating system and applications of your choice. Once installed, your managers can create and customise user profiles with the storage options and data access permissions your organisation needs to maintain security and productivity. Users can also remotely access their desktop from any device, eliminating the need to invest in dedicated desktop computers and reducing operational costs.
Ensuring Security in a Distributed Office Environment
AWS offers multi-office organisations several options to increase and maintain data security across all locations. Here are some of the most effective and widely used:
- Identity and Access Management (IAM). It lets you manage your users’ access to the organisation’s AWS services with a granular, roles and permissions-based profile system.
- Amazon Cognito. Add sign-up, sign-in, and authentication systems to your web and mobile apps. This solution is ideal for providing all your business locations with a scalable and consistent user authentication experience.
- Key Management Service (KMS). With AWS KMS, you can securely encrypt your data and manage cryptographic encryption keys. You can also use it to encrypt or digitally sign your data, helping your team build a unified security strategy.
Secure and Streamline Your Offices with WOLK
Let an AWS expert like WOLK help you build a secure, multi-office workspace. Reach out today to discover WOLK’s AWS migration services and how we can help you unify security and collaboration between each of your locations.