Large International Organization Enhances Security and Scalability with AWS Cloud
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
- Automotive
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
The client is a large international organization that leads global efforts to defeat hunger. This non-profit organization is a source of knowledge and information, and assists developing countries in transition to modernize and improve agriculture, forestry, and fisheries practices. Their goal is to ensure good nutrition and food security for all. They had undertaken a pilot project of application FAM catalog solution which they wanted to host on the cloud, with the aim of having an automated, repeatable implementation across different countries.
The Challenge
The client, a large international organization leading efforts to defeat hunger, had undertaken a pilot project of application FAM catalog solution which they wanted to host on the cloud. They desired an automated deployment using AWS Cloud Formation services, so that similar implementation can be repeatable across the globe in different countries. The client needed the application to be stateless and all static configuration of web/app and actual data needed to be on shared storage. This was to ensure that any termination of server would not impact configuration and to avoid the risk of losing data.
The Solution
The Datamatics team conducted an exploratory analysis to study the FAM Catalogue application requirements. They implemented AWS Services for IAAS with optional components such as Application load balancer, Ec2, EFS for storage for application configuration and storing files, Cloud Watch for provisioned resources monitoring, KMS for disk encryption and parameter store for storing credentials of RDS Arora Database for connection. The team also configured the web app and database in the private subnet to allow seamless communication internally. They implemented end-to-end security by adhering to the best practices of AWS Infrastructure Setup under the compliance of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
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