The Customer and Challenges:
The customer is an educational consulting company that supports students’ university applications. They built an online platform to provide comprehensive information for universities and help students in their application preparation, university match, and application submission.
The EdTech platform supports students in university application and preparation. The platform manages the complex challenge of preparing and carrying out university applications, using data, intelligent tools, and streamlined task management, helping schools prepare the students of today for the world of tomorrow.
The customer encountered several critical challenges during their growth phase.
- The surge in online sales strained their existing bandwidth and network infrastructure, leading to performance bottlenecks that hindered customer experience and operational efficiency.
- The rapid expansion placed immense operational pressure on their teams, necessitating streamlined processes and scalable solutions to meet demand effectively.
- Heightened concerns about data and cyber security emerged as a priority, requiring robust measures to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance with industry standards amidst evolving cyber threats.
The Solutions:
Drawing on the customer’s challenges and leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and best practices, our solutions are designed to address each aspect comprehensively.
- Through careful assessment, validation, and migration processes, we ensure a seamless transition of applications to AWS. We design a resilient structure to ensure a high-performance, highly available, scalable, and secure online managed platform on AWS.
- We integrate with Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 to create a global content delivery network, enhancing user experience and reducing latency. We leverage Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) for caching database queries, reducing latency and improving application performance. We utilize Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) for storing and managing data.
- To improve application deployment and scalability, we implement AWS Lambda for serverless computing and ECS Fargate for container management. Furthermore, we employ Amazon Elastic Load Balancing to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
- We implement robust security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards, leveraging AWS IAM, AWS KMS, and AWS WAF.
- Additionally, we utilize AWS OpenSearch Service to enable custom search functionality for users and data analytics, facilitating timely business decisions and enhancing the commercial value of the online platform.
The Outcomes:
We are able to build a high-performance online platform for the client that ensures reliability and availability for its global customer base. This platform is designed to be highly scalable, accommodating growing business demands with dynamic resource adaptation to handle varying workloads. This means the client can seamlessly expand their operations without experiencing performance bottlenecks or downtime.
Robust security measures are implemented to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards. Leveraging AWS IAM, AWS KMS, and AWS WAF, the platform offers advanced security features that safeguard against unauthorized access, data breaches, and other cyber threats. This instills confidence in the client’s customers, knowing their data is secure.
One of the significant benefits of migrating to AWS is the substantial cost savings. By optimizing resource utilization and efficiently managing AWS services, operational expenses are reduced by 40%. This financial efficiency is further enhanced through continuous cost optimization practices, such as right-sizing instances, auto-scaling, and using reserved instances. These strategies ensure the client only pays for what they need, without over-provisioning resources.