Holiday for Everyone Service
AWS Well-Architected
At Sykes, we offer our customers the ability to book a wide range of over 21,000 holiday cottages to rent across the UK and Ireland. Each one has been personally inspected by a Sykes property expert and is priced fairly and affordably.
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Quality holiday cottages, value-for-money prices
At Sykes, we offer our customers the ability to book a vast range of over 21,000 holiday cottages to rent across the UK and Ireland. Each one of the holiday cottages has been personally inspected by a Sykes property expert and is priced fairly and affordably. The diverse selection of cottage holidays in the UK and Ireland means there is something for everyone. From pet-friendly cottages and large holiday homes to cottages with hot tubs, you’ll find it through Sykes. We use our 30 years of experience to match our customers with their dream holiday cottage, so what are you waiting for? Find out what we can offer you.
Reliability, Security and Scalability
Customer Challenges
Skyes has experienced significant growth, and its AWS use has also grown over time and was looking for an overall infrastructure security run-through workshop to check the fundamentals.
Having previously worked with CloudiQS, Skyses engaged with us to do a deep dive into the account to look at any security concerns and improvements to the infrastructure.
As with any fast-growing business, it can be difficult to bring in enough resources, so Skyes needed our help quickly. After an initial conversation, we started the risk register the following day and delivered results a week later.
Secure / with No Single Point of Failure
Our Solution
- Access management and account setup
- Analysis of security groups, password policies, access keys, IAM access, root account usage
- Documentation of application flows and dependencies
- Monitoring and encryption
- Technology audits
Cost savings. secure and fully Redundant
The Results
CloudiQS was able to deliver some key coverage in the workshop that covers the elements of the broader infrastructure :
- AWS Shilded, using Advanced features
- AWS network Firewall protections
- AWS Strong Password Policy
- RDS Encryptions
As a result, the Skyes team aims to have more significantly secure infrastructure, and an ongoing cost optimisation programme is now in place to improve efficiency overall. Crucially, the team is better equipped to scale successfully at pace to meet their business needs.
