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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the Best Way to Protect Your AWS Workloads

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a popular cloud service provider that offers IaaS solutions to customers. Following are several reasons why IaaS is the best way to protect your AWS workloads.

  • Scalability: IaaS allows you to easily scale up or down your infrastructure resources based on your workload demands.  This means you can easily increase your computing resources when there is a surge in workload, and scale down when the workload reduces. This ensures that you only pay for what you need, and you can easily accommodate changes in workload without having to purchase additional hardware.
  • Cost-effective: IaaS is a cost-effective solution for protecting your workloads on the cloud, instead of investing in expensive hardware and infrastructure, you can simply pay for the resources you need on a subscription basis. This can significantly reduce your capital expenditures, and you can shift your IT budget from capital expenses to operational expenses.
  • Disaster recovery: AWS offers disaster recovery solutions that can help you protect your workloads from disasters such as natural calamities, power outages, and cyber-attacks. You can easily replicate your on-premises, and cloud workloads to the cloud, and in case of a disaster, you can quickly restore your services from the cloud.
  • Security: AWS offers NextGen security for your workloads on the cloud. They have multiple layers of security in place, including physical security, network security, and application security. Take advantage of AWS security services such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage user access to your resources and Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt your data.
  • Flexibility: AWS offers a wide range of services and tools that can help you customize your infrastructure to meet business needs. You can choose from a variety of operating systems, programming languages, and application frameworks. Also, integrate your workloads with other AWS services like AWS Lambda and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Conclusion

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the best way to protect your AWS workloads as it offers scalability, cost-effectiveness, disaster recovery, security, and flexibility. By leveraging IaaS solutions, you can easily manage your computing resources, protect your workloads from disasters, and ensure the security of infrastructure and data.

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We have the right solution for your organization. Our client-centric approach helps you build a more secure, reliable, and efficient business infrastructure that keeps your information safe.

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AWS Cloud Security Case Studies

Case Study | Golftripz Optimizes AWS infrastructure performance with Security & Compliance Services

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Golftripz has been around since 2009, started by people intensely passionate about golf, as an endeavor to deliver delightful golf holiday experiences to golfers from around the world.

Golftripz has reached out to golfers from more than 30 countries across 5 continents. The passion to deliver great experiences at great value are the core philosophy at Golftripz, which gets more intense by the day with increased motivation from seeing golfers happy with their services.

The Challenge

Golftripz migrated the infrastructure from a colocation facility to AWS by their Application partner. They experienced explosive growth and expanded their services to 30 countries across 5 continents.

The partner supporting Golftripz at that time configured the AWS environment as per the application strategy, but the company must follow all security parameters and compliances to fulfil their financial institution’s requirements. While the team was able to build the application successfully, challenges were faced when it came to infra management, providing security parameters and compliance, and providing reports for financial audits.

To ensure the uptime of a Golf Holidays platform, GolfTripz needed a cloud service provider with the expertise and resources to stabilize its existing AWS environment, build a new modernized environment, and provide ongoing management and monitoring along with Security Compliance.

The Solution

  • To solve these challenges, Golftripz collaborated with GoDgtl by PruTech, which delivered its Security Monitoring and compliance services to tune the existing environment and prevent security threats on the platform.
  • GoDgtl provided its Security & Compliance solution, which included an 8/5 team of cloud operations engineers to monitor the security findings and health of the Golftripz environment, apply system patches, and run system back-ups. The service also provided cloud analysts to identify cost-optimization opportunities.
  • GoDgtl also delivered Managed Services to improve the AWS environment. Enhancements included auto-scaling to spin up new servers and load balancing for effective handling of workload spikes, instance resizing, and image building using the Amazon Machine Image service.
  • To increase the security posture of the GoDgtl AWS environment, AWS Security Hub was used to benchmark the security policies. The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies were reviewed, and configuration changes were applied. GoDgtl also created a self-serve, multi-factor authentication policy along with the removal of public write access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and closing ports on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to block attacks.
  • Specific improvements applied by GoDgtl include auto-scaling and load balancing of AWS compute resources, access management, and intrusion prevention system, threat management system implementation. With these capabilities, GolfTripz has stabilized its security features and been able to submit the security reports for their IT and financial Audits. The company also created a stronger security posture to protect sensitive data.
  • GoDgtl by Prutech is an AWS advanced consulting partner. AWS cloud services are preferred due to the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency they provide to businesses. AWS consists of a host of services that help deliver reliable and secure products on the cloud. Following the AWS tools helped us achieve cost-efficiency and enhanced performance.

Results & Benefits

  • Created stronger security posture to protect sensitive data
  • Reduced cloud infrastructure costs as payments were made for actual usage
  • Stabilized security performance to eliminate threats
  • Stabilized the infrastructure and continuous enhancement

About GoDgtl

GoDgtl by PruTech is an Advanced Consulting Partner of AWS. Through our innovative and customized cloud services, we help our customers to design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on cloud, accelerating their journey to the cloud. We offer cost-effective and secure cloud solutions through the effective implementation of the latest cloud technologies and processes that are highly scalable and compatible with changing market demands.

Our cloud managed services are offered through a holistic approach to the cloud

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Case Study | Skandhanshi implement robust security for their cloud infrastructure

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Skandhanshi Infra Projects Pvt Ltd, a real estate firm with 12+ years of experience in construction sector. Skandhansi has a legacy of developing real estate projects spread across various parts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka.

Skandhanshi Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd. offers its services through advanced technology implementation with the mission of providing an excellent level of service and expertise to customers.

The Challenge

Skandhanshi infrastructure was on Hybrid model where they had challenges related to performance, availability as well security. As the data was scattered maintaining regular backups was impacting the business growth.

Every day, thousands of home, commercial complex, villas buyers, agents and property managers, browse Skandhanshi website and application Cloud9 to get the information of upcoming and ongoing projects. Due to heavy flow of traffic there was a challenge in delivering the information with high maintenance cost.

The major concern was lack of information availability on application Cloud9 and Skandhanshi websites due to low bandwidth and misconfiguration of server resulting in security breaches and downfall of respective resources.

To ensure a scalable and reliable infrastructure, Skandhansi engage GoDgtl by PruTech a cloud service provider with expertise in migration, modernization and security solutions adhering security compliance for respective industry.

The Solution

  • GoDgtl by Prutech was successful in migrating the on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud. The customer noticed variations in results and performance of application. They achieved scalability and increased performance through the secured migration of on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
  • GoDgtl implemented the latest AWS cloud services and achieved enhanced website performance, regular monitoring and maintenance of server backups, and a secure cloud environment. A secured, scalable, and extendable cloud structure with AWS services.
  • Various AWS services like EC2, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM, Macie, CloudWatch, CloudTrial, WAF, and Security Hub added multiple layers of security to their application.
  • Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics and alerts to enhance security and compliance for the client.
  • GoDgtl used Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and created an isolated virtual network to enable ease of access and improve productivity. Implementation of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) provided security against intrusion and hacking. Implementation of data encryption and decryption through the effective use of EC2 and KMS services ensured complete security for the website.

Results & Benefits

  • Migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud.
  • GoDgtl offered a cost-effective solution through the effective management and monitoring of cloud services. Skandhanshi achieved cost optimization and a robust solution to handle their back-up related issues.
  • Effective implementation of cloud migration services helped achieve up to 30%-40% of cloud maintenance costs.
  • The auto-scaling tool enabled up or down scaling of the application based on the specific business needs.
  • Implemented complete security for the cloud infrastructure through robust AWS security tools.
  • Achieved autoscaling and high availability of resources.
  • The implementation of IAM, MFA, WAF, and PC ensured the overall security of the client infrastructure on the AWS Cloud.
  • CloudWatch helped us to provide continuous support and monitoring of the services.
  • Offered backup support for cloud data.

About GoDgtl

GoDgtl by PruTech is an Advanced Consulting Partner of AWS. Through our innovative and customized cloud services, we help our customers to design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on cloud, accelerating their journey to the cloud. We offer cost-effective and secure cloud solutions through the effective implementation of the latest cloud technologies and processes that are highly scalable and compatible with changing market demands.

Our cloud managed services are offered through a holistic approach to the cloud

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Case Study | Oricred delivers secure financial services

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Oricred Finserv Pvt. Ltd. has been incorporated in the year 2018. It operates with a vision to be the largest NBFC providing loans and financial services to all segments and sectors of society using the latest technology solutions. It has its major operations in Odisha and intends to spread its services to other parts of the country.

Oricred offers its services through the mobile application – Mobicred – which is a new-age financial services platform.

The Challenge

Mobicred, a financial services platform offers loans to people across the country using the latest technology solutions.

The customer infrastructure was hosted on-Premises where the application was frequently experiencing the issue with performance due to lack of scalability and compatibility features. The impact of performance not only effected the high maintenance cost also had challenges in monitoring the vulnerabilities and security breaches on the VPS.

As the hosted infrastructure was on single server the customer had to face challenges in handling the varying workloads as the existing platform was not supporting the delivery of bulk promotional emails which also impacted the sales promotions.

While exploring the Cloud Solution providers Oricred engage GoDgtl by PruTech for ease of migrating on-premise infrastructure to cloud for better performance and a solution that adheres the PCI Compliance.

The Solution

  • GoDgtl by PruTech proposed Oricred with Cloud Migration and Security Solution to overcome the challenges for better performance, availability and security.
  • In the process of migration GoDgtl team hosted the customer data and vital resources on 5 different servers to achieve higher availability and increased performance. Applications and Database were migrated to Amazon Compute Services as well a comprehensive solution for site-to-site VPNs, data migrations, and general security was implemented.
  • Implementation of Route 53 for load balancing, Auto-scaling for high availability, Amazon workspace through VDI, and Cloud watch for monitoring the application functionality was done.
  • To ensure overall security of the infrastructure hosted on AWS and PCI Compliance various security tools such as Identity Access Management (IAM) and policies were implemented. Cloud access system was secured by implementing Multi-Factor-Authentication (MFA).
  • To enable ease of access and improve productivity an isolated virtual network was created using AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with implementation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) for security against intrusion and hacking.
  • With the help of AWS Cloud Migration and Security Solutions GoDgtl team approached an integrated solution for migration resulting in overcoming the challenges with high performance, availability and secured environment.
  • Oricred achieved better performance and could send around 50,000 promotional emails after the implementation of AWS cloud services.

Results & Benefits

  • Ease of availability by migrating the applications and respective databases to Amazon Compute services.
  • Better performance and scalability of application by enabling the auto-scaling tool feature.
  • Achieved PCI compliance.
  • Ease of balancing workloads with implementation of Route 53.
  • Infrastructure hosted on AWS cloud was secured by implementation of security solutions such as IAM, MFA, WAF and VPC
  • Implementation of CloudWatch helped to fix the operational issues and performance.
  • Continuous monitoring of infrastructure hosted on AWS Cloud helped in minimizing the risk resulting in stability and reliability
  • Enhanced cloud security by implementing KMS
  • Offered backup support for cloud data.

About GoDgtl

GoDgtl by PruTech is an Advanced Consulting Partner of AWS. Through our innovative and customized cloud services, we help our customers to design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on cloud, accelerating their journey to the cloud. We offer cost-effective and secure cloud solutions through the effective implementation of the latest cloud technologies and processes that are highly scalable and compatible with changing market demands.

Our cloud managed services are offered through a holistic approach to the cloud

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Case Study | Security as a Service for Water Health International

Water Health International is an India-based company that offers customers safe, affordable drinking water through its community water systems.

As Water Health business applications was hosted on virtual private servers facing a challenge in performance as well security breaches on the VPS which impacted their business continuity.  

GoDgtl provided Water Health with migration of application to AWS cloud using EC2 with security tools IAM, AWS inspector, and AWS GuardDuty for data security which helped them to enhance their business performance and high availability.

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