S3WaaS Brochure

S3WaaS (Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service)

Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas – a major objective of the Government which, can only be realized through barrier free and round the clock delivery of information and services right on the devices of the citizen through this initiative of Digital India.

S3Waas – Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service is a website generating framework based on SaaS (Software as a Service) model hosted on the National Cloud of NIC. It leverages technology to generate secure acessible websites which are highly customizable and seamlessly deployed on a scalable and completely software defined infrastructure.

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
S3WaaS is a fully integrated lifecycle management solution that not only simplifies initial creation and deployment to go live but also automatically takes care of periodic application updates and security patches. S3Waas is built on cutting edge Open Source Technology stacks, a complete SaaS solution that includes WordPress CMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ceph, SDN, DNS, lifecycle management and LMA tools (logging – monitoring – alerting).

FEATURES

S3WaaS enables a set of themes and templates those have been meticulously designed with an eye on maintaining a correct balance of elements to produce a vibrant interface. Each pre-designed template comes with a Content Management System (CMS) on WordPress and offers the following features:

Simplified and Automated platform to enable generation and management of government websites
Seamlessly incorporates the GIGW Certification lifecycle, benefiting both government users and STQC
Designed to prioritize the needs of citizens while ensuring accessibility for individuals with disabilities
Citizen-centric unified Information Architecture/Content Architecture for easy navigation
Responsive web design to make web pages render well on all screen sizes and resolutions while ensuring good usability
Secure by Design and always available out of the NIC National Data Centres (Active and DR)
Automation in technology updates and upgrades
Provision to maintain Multilingual Content and Integration to Social Media

GIGW CERTIFIED TEMPLATES

S3WaaS themes and templates have been developed using the best coding practices to ensure that it meets the highest standards in terms of quality, usability and accessibility. All themes and templates are compliant to the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) and have been certified by STQC ensuring websites generated using S3WaaS don’t have to undergo long certification process to obtain the Certified Website Quality (CQW) from STQC. However, certification would be required only for the migrated/added content.

INFRASTRUCTURE

S3WaaS is built on Software Defined Infrastructure for smooth provisioning hosting, compute, storage and networking. Users need not to worry about the infrastructure procurement/allocation and its management but should focus entirely on quality of content.

Built on containers using Open Source Tools

Agile and Scalable with Auto Healing and Auto Scaling

Seamless cyber security audit clearance of generated websites

Seamless deployment, scaling and monitoring of each generated website

Automatic configuring of each website on software defined Load Balancer

Static content published on an software defined Object Storage with replication

Automatic updates for security patches and core updates of WordPress and Plug-ins

Automatic SSL certificate generation for each website to provide access on Secured Layer

Dashboard for real time log monitoring and website analytics for insights into website usage

SIMPLE STEPS TO GENERATE AND DEPLOY A WEBSITE THROUGH S3WAAS

Visit https://s3waas.gov.in

Select a website template that best suits the requirements

Provide key details of the Website such as

Technical Contact (to function as Administrator Website) –

Administrative Contact (Website Owner)

Customize the Site

Add/Arrange/Customize Site Components

Add Content (Text, Image, Audio, Video and more)

Make Site Live

CONNECT

A4B4, 3rd Floor
National Informatics Centre
A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 110003 INDIA
Email : s3waas[dot]support[at]gov[dot]in
Website : https://s3waas.gov.in