AWS Website Hosting Designed for Performance and Security

Shift to Somar Digital Cloud for secure, scalable and cost effective website hosting.

Somar Digital Cloud is a hosting platform built upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides a secure and scalable infrastructure, backed by our dedicated support team.

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What are the benefits of Hosting & Support?

Somar Digital works with your organisation to provide the level of cloud environment management that meets your needs, from incident management to infrastructure optimisations, delivering automation, operational excellence, and speed.

Somar Digital leverages AWS enterprise operating models, infrastructure automation, and a broad range of expertise to grow and maintain your cloud footprint, allowing your organisation to focus on business growth opportunities while Somar Digital works with AWS to optimise your infrastructure and handle incidents on your behalf.

Somar Digital extends AWS benefits to your cloud environment and creates a single point of contact to provide management of AWS applications, support for modernised architectures, customised infrastructure-as-code, and IT Service Management systems integration. Regardless of where your organisation is in your digital transformation journey, Somar Digital powered by AWS Managed Services provides an operating model designed to accelerate your digital transformation and focus your resources on innovation and delivering business results.

Scalable and high-performing

Somar Digital Cloud features built-in auto-scaling mechanisms for all of the hosting plans. The core technology used for our platform is designed around responding to both sustained increased traffic, and a sudden influx. Backed by Amazon’s massive infrastructure, resources are always available on-demand when they are needed.

Safe, secure and compliant

Somar Digital Cloud takes advantage of the 100+ security and operational guard rails and compliance checks that AWS provides. The AWS platform allows regular and ongoing monitoring of security measures, and automatic alerting to our 24/7 on-call support team provides round-the-clock monitoring. If you have specific security compliance requirements please talk to us about how Somar Digital Cloud can meet these requirements.

Optimised for Silverstripe

While primarily built and optimised for Silverstripe-based websites, Somar Digital Cloud also offers the flexibility of a modern cloud hosting platform, being able to make use of the full suite of AWS products and services, whether that’s serverless functions, machine learning, content distribution networks, or data lakes (or anything in between), we can work with your requirements to tailor Somar Digital Cloud to your hosting needs.

24/7 monitoring and response

Our hosting platform is supported by a robust monitoring system, including website and server health checks, log management, and an on-call notification system to alert our operations team in the event of outages or incidents. We provide 24/7 on-call monitoring across all of our hosting plans.

Sustainable

Somar Digital Cloud makes it possible to track, measure, review and forecast the carbon emissions generated by your cloud usage. This tool allows you to approximate the estimated carbon emissions that you have avoided by using Somar Digital Cloud instead of an on-premises data centre and review forecasted emissions based on current use.

Built-in deployments

Gone are the days where someone must manually log into a server to undertake and ensure a deployment goes smoothly. Somar Digital Cloud takes care of the full deployment process from end to end, using continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with no downtime. This greatly reduces the time, overhead and risk associated with doing deployments to your hosting environments.

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Somar Digital is an AWS Partner

Somar Digital is now an AWS Select Consulting Partner and AWS Public Sector Partner within the Amazon Web Services Partner Network. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

The AWS partner network(external link) is a global community of providers who leverage Amazon’s web services technology. Achieving Public Sector Partner status recognises Somar Digital’s demonstrated technical proficiency and customer success delivering advanced citizen solutions in the AWS cloud environment. To also attain Select Consulting Partner status, Somar Digital needed to meet a wide range of technical and business training requirements.

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Frequently Asked Questions

AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. AWS services can offer tools such as compute power, database storage, and content delivery services. It is used by businesses and developers for its flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, allowing them to host applications, store data, and perform a wide range of cloud-based operations without the need for physical hardware, thereby reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Yes, AWS is considered one of the leading cloud hosting solutions due to its extensive global infrastructure, high reliability, scalability, and flexibility. It suits a wide range of hosting needs, from simple websites to complex applications. AWS provides a vast array of services and tools that can accommodate any scale of application, making it a popular choice for startups, large enterprises, and government organisations. Its ability to scale on demand ensures that websites can handle varying levels of traffic without the need for manual intervention.

AWS offers three primary types of cloud services:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): This provides virtualised physical resources over the internet, such as virtual machines, storage, and networks. AWS services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 fall into this category.
Platform as a Service (PaaS): PaaS offerings facilitate the development, testing, and deployment of applications without the need to manage underlying infrastructure. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an example of PaaS.
Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS offers a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. An example within AWS would be Amazon WorkSpaces, which provides a managed desktop service.

In simple terms, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud platform offered by Amazon that provides a wide variety of internet services. These services allow businesses and developers to use Amazon's servers to store data, host websites, and run applications. The beauty of AWS is that it offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, eliminating the need for companies to invest in physical servers and data centres. Users can easily scale up as their needs grow and only pay for the services and resources they use.

The cost of AWS hosting can vary widely depending on the services used, the amount of resources consumed (like storage and bandwidth), and the specific pricing plan selected.

Our Somar Digital Cloud hosting and support pricing plan is broken down into three tiers:

Small	Medium	Large
$499 (PM / Excl. GST)	$699 (PM / Excl. GST)	$1,199 (PM / Excl. GST)

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AWS Website Hosting Designed for Performance and Security

What are the benefits of Hosting & Support?

Scalable and high-performing

Safe, secure and compliant

Optimised for Silverstripe

24/7 monitoring and response

Sustainable

Built-in deployments

Some of our client partners

Somar Digital is an AWS Partner

Book your free consultation

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AWS and why is it used?

Is AWS good for hosting?

What are the 3 types of cloud services AWS has?

What is AWS in simple terms?

How much does AWS hosting cost?

See how we put this into action

NZSBA’s School Board Elections Site

Fast Turnaround with Lasting Impact: NZSBA’s New School Board Elections Site

Empowering Teachers with Kura Kete: A Digital Resource Hub

Creating a Library of Engaging and Relevant Learning Experiences for Teachers

Kōnae - My Records Guide website

Kōnae - My Records Guide: A Trusted Resource for Accessing Personal Records