Voly.co.uk
Accounting / Financial Software
AWS Optimisation's
Voly.co.uk Specialising in accounting systems for Yacht Industries.
Over the past years, Voly outgrown their environments needs for Cloud.
The needs for implementing cloud based scalable and flexible cost model for their customers.
Customer Challenges
Voly needed help with its AWS simplifications initiatives for their current AWS infrastructure, by clearing up unwanted AWS services and increase the flexibility, security, reliability and cost transparency for their web applications, and no Document repository or internal intranet for sharing with vendors
Voly had no ability to auto-scale during their pick times and often the website was going down, costing them unwanted experience for their customers.
Voly.co.uk also would like to discover a wider AWS services features including, API Gateway, EC2, RDS, Load-balancing and Flexible S3 auto archiving features.
In addition – Voly would utilise a set of automations for events of monitoring such as cloud trials and SQS/ SNS when problems are occurred
Our Solution
CloudiQS first phase was to created a new secure VPC with related networking components with 3 tier networking layer, public private and restricted .
Created a SharePoint Farm with FrontEnd and Backend sharepoint app for hosting intranet sites and accounting documentation for sharing with vendors / thrid-parties.
Placed securely behind a multi-node load balancer and a multi-availability zone database for the application
back end. The website can withstand multiple server failures without downtime. As with any public facing service security is a key aspect to consider.
Migrated some dependencies applications from on-premise systems that was integrated to the main website that consisted a multiple back-end web servers.
CloudiQS also introduced a least privileged security controls for the developers and their remote engineers, given the ability to access what they require and in order to access any resources and enabled multi-factor authentication as a required.
The company also realizes greater infrastructure agility, flexibility, elasticity and global availability, and significant annual cost savings with AWS.
The Results
- AWS Organisations: Created a single consolidated billing for both accounts Dev and Prod (to review rest of accounts)
- Dev / Prod Environment’s: linked with the VPC peering for some shared applications services
- Amazon RDS: Backend that spread across multiple availability zones for high-availability.
- Lambda / API Gateway: allowing the systems to integrate with third parities.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: for managed Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group, spread across 2 Availability Zones for scalability and maximum fault tolerance.
- AWS Transfer: new SFTP to transfer files directly into and out of Amazon S3 using SFTP for the depended legacy systems
- Amazon ELB to balance traffic across the instances.
- Amazon S3 object storage for static files.
- Amazon CloudFront: related for edge caching, to reduce overall load on the system by caching where appropriate.
- AWS CloudTrail: to monitor the IAM actions taking place on the account
- EC2 Instances: for sharepoint farm including backend MSQL.
