About Client
The client is a UK-based insurance provider that delivers top-notch consultancy, insurance, and reinsurance services to financial firms, travel agencies, and the health sector. They have been successfully offering exceptional services to its ever-growing customer base for over a decade, with a strong international footprint across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Country UK
Industry Lifesciences
Business Requirement
Improve overall customer satisfaction and reduce business expenses.
- Lack of skilled resources to evaluate utilization and optimal cloud infrastructure performance
- Build a simplified documentation system and well-crafted workflow in place for better operational management
- Follow a code review and source control process
- Overcome the challenge of excess bill and underutilized resources
- Configure permissions and access rights properly
- Fill the gaps in cloud security
- Streamline the management and monitor services on AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment
Our Solution
- Analyzed the business goals and IT infrastructure, helped the client identify gaps, and proposed a detailed report reflecting set of challenges and their solutions
- Recommendations to downsize, eliminate and optimize the underutilized cloud services, based on the size, storage, usage, cost, and performance factors
- Administered the AWS environment, formulated the best practices, and identified ways to implement them
- Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) services to securely monitor and grant rights & permissions across the environment
- The EC2 instances (virtual servers) used on the AWS infrastructure were analyzed and downscaled for significant cost savings without hindering performance
- Customized scripts were developed to automate the removal of AMIs and snapshots older than a specific number of days and retained the important ones based on the demand
- Analyzed the usage patterns, storage capacity of the required database hosted on RDS instances
- Created database backups at predefined intervals and made them fault-tolerant
- Security and compliance benchmarks implementation
Tools & Technologies
- Amazon Web Services
- MVC, JS, jQuery, VB.Net, Python, SSIS, Power BI, SQL
Business Outcome
- AWS monthly bill was reduced by 60%
- Go-to-market time was accelerated by 50%
- Client’s focus shifted to productive business initiatives
- Reduced business expenses by 45%
- Cost reduction analysis and correction improved efficiency & profitability
- Operations managed with an uptime of 99.98% and IOPS of more than 150,000.
