Executive Summary
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They also faced a lack of segregation of workloads and a broken pipeline for continuous deployment. Cloudelligent’s services helped the customer solve these challenges, paving way for their internal team to work on product development more efficiently and reliably, and reduce costs by up to 20%.
About the Customer
Challenge
Our customer faced the following IT challenges:
Test and validate the multi-Availability Zones at the primary to ensure that their database was highly available.
Redefine the backup retention at the read replica and validate their existing Amazon RDS DR.
Automate their time-consuming administrative tasks such as resource provisioning, patching, database setup, and backups.
Solution
Cloudelligent was able to successfully solve the customer’s challenges by:
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Setting up a Landing Zone
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Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for new environments as well as maintaining existing ones
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Implementing DevOps best practices around deployment automation, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and security
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Implementing DevOps best practices around deployment automation, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and security
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Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for new environments as well as maintaining existing ones
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Implementing Disaster Recovery strategy based on RTO/RPO
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AWS accounts were set up, among which 2 accounts were the focus that contained all the infrastructure related to the deployed applications; one for dev/staging and the other for production. Both accounts have the same infrastructure deployed in us-east-1 and us-west-2. The infrastructure on us-west-2 is designated for disaster recovery purposes.
The primary Amazon Web Services used to solve the customer challenges:
Workflow
Cloudelligent was able to successfully solve the customer’s challenges by:
2 organizational units, for the shared accounts and individual accounts each can be provisioned by the users.
A native cloud directory with preconfigured groups and single sign-on access.
A native cloud directory with preconfigured groups and single sign-on access.
3 shared accounts, which are the management accounts and isolated accounts for log archive and security audit.
20 preventive guardrails to enforce policies and 2 detective guardrails to detect configuration violations.
Results & Benefits
Customized and Well-Architected Solutions
Enhanced Reliability and Scalability
Cost Optimization
Improved Operational Efficiency
