Background
The client
SafeLiShare is a leading data security company that provides a trusted computing platform for
highly regulated businesses and organizations concerned about unauthorized third-party access
to data in the public cloud. Their platform orchestrates access to data and compute code within
elastic secure enclaves, enabling stringent data security governance policies to discover, classify,
and protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Challenges with Legacy Application
The clinet’s legacy on-premises application faced several challenges that hindered its ability to scale and adapt to evolving business needs:
- Limited scalability: The on-premises infrastructure had fixed compute and storage capacity, making it difficult to handle sudden spikes in demand or accommodate rapid business growth.
- Lengthy deployment cycles: Provisioning new resources and deploying application updates involved complex manual processes, leading to lengthy deployment cycles and increased risk of human error.
- Lack of agility: The monolithic architecture of the legacy application made it challenging to adopt new technologies and integrate with modern DevOps practices, hampering innovation and time-to-market for new features.
- High operational costs: Maintaining and scaling the on-premises infrastructure incurred substantial costs for hardware, software licenses, facilities, and dedicated IT staff.
Solution Approach with AWS
To address these challenges and future-proof their platform, SafeLiShare decided to modernize their application by leveraging the scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness of AWS services. The modernization initiative involved the following key components:
- Containerized Deployment on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) : SafeLiShare containerized their application and deployed it on Amazon EKS . This approach eliminated the need to provision and manage servers individually instead relying on EKS to manage the capacity, enabling automatic scaling and efficient resource utilization.
- Amazon Aurora Serverless: SafeLiShare leveraged Amazon Aurora Serverless, a fully managed database service, to simplify database management and automatically scale compute and storage resources based on workload demands.
- Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Cognito: To enhance performance and secure user authentication, SafeLiShare integrated their application with Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN), and Amazon Cognito, a user identity management service.
- Integration with AWS AI/ML Services: SafeLiShare incorporated AWS AI/ML services, such as Amazon SageMaker, to deploy and integrate machine learning models into their platform, enabling advanced data science and AI capabilities.
- Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI Capabilities: SafeLiShare leveraged Amazon Bedrock, a managed service for generative AI, to incorporate cutting-edge natural language processing and generation capabilities into their platform.
Eficens’ Expertise in Modernization
SafeLiShare partnered with Eficens, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to accelerate their modernization journey. Eficens’ team of AWS-certified experts provided end-to-end support, including:
- Cloud Readiness Assessment: Eficens conducted a comprehensive assessment of the clinet’s existing infrastructure, applications, and workloads to identify potential migration challenges and develop a detailed migration plan.
- Architecture Design: Eficens’ architects designed a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud architecture tailored to the clinet’s requirements, leveraging AWS best practices and Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Migration and Deployment: Eficens’ team executed the migration and deployment of application to the AWS cloud, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless integration with existing systems.
- Automation and DevOps Implementation: Eficens implemented DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated testing, enabling faster and more reliable application deployments.
- Security and Compliance: Eficens ensured that the modernized application adhered to industry-standard security and compliance requirements, leveraging AWS security services and best practices.
- Ongoing Optimization and Support: Eficens provided ongoing optimization, monitoring, and support services to ensure the efficient and cost-effective operation of the clinet’s cloud infrastructure.
AWS Service Benefits
By modernizing their platform on AWS, SafeLiShare realized numerous benefits:
- Scalability and Elasticity: With EKS Autoscaling and Aurora Serverless, the clinet’s application could automatically scale compute and storage resources based on demand, eliminating the need for over-provisioning and enabling cost optimization.
- Improved Performance and Global Reach: Amazon CloudFront’s CDN capabilities enhanced application performance and reduced latency for users worldwide, improving the overall user experience.
- Enhanced Security and Compliance: AWS services, such as Amazon Cognito, provided robust identity and access management capabilities, ensuring secure user authentication and data protection. Additionally, AWS’s comprehensive security and compliance certifications helped SafeLiShare meet industry-specific regulatory requirements.
- Accelerated Innovation: By integrating with AWS AI/ML services like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, SafeLiShare could rapidly incorporate advanced data science, machine learning, and generative AI capabilities into their platform, fostering innovation and delivering cutting-edge features to their customers.
- Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings: The serverless and managed nature of AWS services reduced the operational overhead of infrastructure management, allowing SafeLiShare to focus on core product development and innovation. Additionally, the pay-as-you-go pricing model optimized costs and eliminated the need for upfront capital investments in hardware and software licenses.
Outcomes Delivered for SafeLiShare
Through their successful modernization journey on AWS, SafeLiShare achieved the following outcomes:
- Improved scalability and performance: The modernized application could handle sudden traffic spikes and rapidly scale resources to meet increasing demand, while delivering consistent performance globally through Amazon CloudFront’s CDN.
- Accelerated time-to-market: The integration of AWS AI/ML services and the adoption of DevOps practices enabled SafeLiShare to rapidly develop and deploy new features, shortening the time-to-market for innovative offerings.
- Enhanced security and compliance: The modernized application leveraged AWS’s robust security services and industry-standard compliance certifications, providing customers with increased confidence in the protection of their sensitive data.
- Operational efficiency and cost optimization: The serverless and managed services approach reduced operational overhead, allowing SafeLiShare to reallocate resources to strategic initiatives. Additionally, the pay-as-you-go pricing model optimized costs and improved overall return on investment (ROI).
- Future-proof platform: By embracing cloud-native architectures and leveraging AWS’s extensive portfolio of services, SafeLiShare future-proofed their platform, ensuring scalability, agility, and the ability to rapidly adopt emerging technologies. The clinet’s successful modernization on AWS, with the guidance and expertise of Eficens, has positioned the company as a leader in trusted computing platforms, enabling them to deliver innovative and secure solutions to highly regulated businesses and organizations worldwide.
