Security & Compliance services Optimizing AWS infrastructure performance

Golftripz has been around since 2009, started by people intensely passionate about golf, as an endeavour 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.

Golftripz needed to scale its capacity to support its growing customer base and provide them with a best-in class user experience. PruTech offered Golftripz with Amazon EC2 solution that include automatic scaling groups and predictive scaling.

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.

Chiefly concerned with providing an interruption-free experience for its users, Golftripz erred on the side of overprovisioning; in the long term, however, the company needed a more cost-efficient and scalable solution.

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 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.

To solve these challenges, Golftripz collaborated with PruTech, which delivered Amazon EC2 service for cloud optimization and take full advantage of the resources available within AWS. PruTech successfully implemented Amazon EC2 services with modern governance structures and through the implementation of industry best practices. Golftripz was provided with an infrastructure that was easy to operate, highly secure, and cost-efficient.

Golftripz optimized its use of Amazon EC2, a web service that provides secure, sizable compute capacity in the cloud. It helps developers to web-scale cloud computing in an easier and more productive manner.

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances offer unused AWS compute capacity at a lower cost. Amazon EC2 Autoscaling helped achieve higher availability of the application and automatically add or remove EC2 instances as per the customer need.

Amazon EC2 workloads are optimized through Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS. Amazon EBS provides persistent, highly available, low-latency block storage volumes. It allows to hibernate the Amazon EC2 instances and resume services at a later stage. The integrated solution enabled to scale effectively through the surge in demand, provided performance boost, and offered a cost-effective solution.

PruTech 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.

PruTech 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.

PruTech 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.

Various AWS services like EC2, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM, Macie, CloudWatch, CloudTrial, WAF, and Security Hub added multiple layers of security and optimized their applications.

Amazon CloudWatch provided custom metrics and alerts to enhance security and compliance for the client.

PruTech used Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and created an isolated virtual network to enable ease of access and improve productivity. Implementation of data encryption and decryption through the effective use of KMS services ensured complete security for the website.

Specific improvements applied by PruTech 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 optimized its cloud infrastructure and achieved higher availability. The company also created a stronger security posture to protect sensitive data.

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. Implementing the AWS tools helped us achieve cost-efficiency and enhanced performance.

• Achieved an optimized cloud infrastructure that supports the growing user base.
• 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 through continuous enhancement.