About Customer
SPOORAY is a special kind of E-wallet mobile app, designed for entertainment needs.
SPOORAY facilitates the creation and sending of congratulatory messages for events or special occasions by utilizing tools like images, giphy and video messages accompanied by a monetary gift.
Customer Challenge
SPOORAY is running their manually provisioned platform in AWS Cloud. They are running an infrastructure which lacks:
- Scalability – Application is hosted on single EC2 server
- Security – No security patching or upgrade and open access to production systems of all tech team.
- Encryption – Encryption at rest missing
- DevOps – Lacking CI/CD
- Cost – oversize EC2 and RDS
- Vendor Isolation – Keeping the vendors isolated
SPOORAY wanted a secure cost-effective solution with high availability and low-latency performance.
SUDO Solution
The overall aim is to deploy a modern AWS infrastructure to host Spooray Mobile Backend services. The solution should allow Spooray operations team to deploy new accounts on demand and also scale up and scale down easily during marketing events on production. The system described here utilizes modular approach in enabling automation and orchestration of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering. Key modularity aspect of the system is clear separation between infrastructure management and cloud service management layers.
The separation will be on dedicated development, R&D and production environments. The production will be distributed between with Multi-AZ auto-scaling, load balanced and monitored. The security aspect will follow AWS Well-Architected framework best practices. The instances and RDS will be resized based on utilization validation over past 3-6 month.
AWS Services used part of the solution:
- AWS Control Tower + AFT
- AWS IAM
- AWS Organization
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Config
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS KMS
- AWS Cert. Manager
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Route 53
- NAT Gateway
- Internet Gateway
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon EFS
- Security Group
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS WAF
- Amazon ECR
The entire solution was deployed following IaC tools with CI/CD in place
Results & Benefits
Thanks to our partnership, SPOORAY now has a completely updated and flexible interface based on AWS. Their solution represents the well-build architectural pillars of AWS: security, high performance, operational efficiency, flexibility, cost optimization and sustainability. They have scalable and cost effective solution that can be continuously developed with much lower operating costs. This shortens time to market by reducing overheads and helps SPOORAY to stay ahead of its competitors.
With AWS computing at the heart of their application, infrastructure management is simplified and efficient, so SPOORAY technology team can focus on implementing features that serve their customers.
