E-Global – Who Are They?
E-Global is a leading provider of Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS), acting as a trusted outsourced partner for organisations that require around-the-clock cybersecurity protection. Their team continuously monitors E-Global networks, detects threats, and responds to incidents in real time, ensuring businesses stay secure without having to build their own in-house SOC. To power this service, E-Global had been running their on-premise Security Operations Center (SOC) on the Stellar Cyber platform. While this setup had supported their operations, it also introduced challenges in scalability, resiliency, and long-term cost efficiency.
The Beginning
To strengthen their service delivery and future-proof their SOCaaS offering, E-Global set a clear objective: migrate their on-premise Stellar Cyber platform to AWS. Their vision was to use a lift-and-shift approach, executing the migration in a single wave to reduce complexity and downtime. The migration plan included transferring 21 workloads across three core components of their SOC environment. This involved backing up critical security data to Amazon S3, launching new Amazon EC2 instances to host workloads, and then restoring and loading data from S3 into the AWS environment.
The Digital Transformation Journey
By leveraging AWS’s reliable and secure cloud infrastructure, E-Global was able to recreate their SOC platform in the cloud with minimal disruption to operations. The workloads were moved seamlessly from on-premise to AWS, taking advantage of EC2’s flexible compute capabilities to run Stellar Cyber efficiently. At the same time, Amazon S3 provided a durable, cost-effective solution for storing and retrieving large volumes of threat intelligence data, logs, and backup files.
The lift-and-shift execution ensured that the E-Global’s SOC team could continue delivering uninterrupted monitoring and threat detection for their clients during the migration process. With AWS, they were able to quickly provision resources, reduce operational overhead, and establish a more resilient foundation for their SOCaaS business.
Outcomes and Business Value
Post-migration, E-Global achieved several key benefits:
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Improved Scalability – AWS EC2 instances allowed them to right-size and scale resources on-demand, ensuring their SOC platform can keep pace with E-Global growth and increasing security data volumes.
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Increased Resiliency – With workloads distributed across AWS Availability Zones, the SOC platform gained built-in fault tolerance, enhancing reliability for mission-critical security operations.
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Cost Optimisation – By adopting AWS’s pay-as-you-go model, E-Global gained better cost control, eliminating the need for heavy upfront hardware investments.
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Stronger Data Protection – Amazon S3 ensured durable, secure, and compliant storage of sensitive threat intelligence and monitoring data.
The Value of an AWS Partner in Enabling SOC-as-a-Service
For E-Global’s offering SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS), the ability to deliver continuous monitoring, rapid threat detection, and swift incident response is critical. In this case, E-Global was operating their on-premise Security Operations Center (SOC) leveraging the Stellar Cyber platform. While their existing setup provided the foundation for delivering outsourced SOC services, they sought to enhance scalability, resiliency, and cost-efficiency by exploring AWS.
Exabytes played a key role in bridging this transition. By assessing the E-Global’s existing on-premise SOC architecture and mapping it to the right AWS services, Exabytes ensured the environment could scale to meet growing demand while maintaining stringent security and compliance standards. Exabytes provided guidance on how AWS could enhance the Stellar Cyber platform deployment—leveraging services like Amazon EC2 for compute flexibility, Amazon S3 for secure storage of logs and threat intelligence data, and Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and alerting.
Beyond the technical migration, Exabytes added value by implementing AWS security best practices, ensuring workloads were protected through proper identity management, network segmentation, and encryption. They also provided cost optimisation strategies, making sure E-Global could run a high-performance SOCaaS offering without unnecessary spend.
By working with Exabytes, E-Global gained more than a migration pathway—they gained a strategic advisor who helped them modernise their SOC delivery model, ensuring they could provide their end customers with faster, more reliable, and more secure threat detection and response, all powered by AWS.
Looking Ahead
By moving their SOC-as-a-Service platform from on-premise to AWS, E-Global not only modernised their IT environment but also positioned themselves for future innovation in cybersecurity delivery. With a scalable, resilient, and cost-effective SOC running on AWS, they are now better equipped to meet the growing demand for outsourced security operations and deliver even greater value to their clients.
