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February 19, 2022 | Resonances type: Case study
Founded by Mr. Jaidayal Dalmia in 1939, Dalmia Cements is a pioneering cement company in India. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company operates as Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Ltd.
The company has a manufacturing capacity of 35.9 million tons per annum (MTPA) across 14 plants and grinding units located in 10 states. With over 33,000 dealers and sub-dealers, the company serves more than 22 states and is a leading player in each region it is present in. The company has grown through acquisitions and greenfield expansions to scale the business and venture into new territories. Dalmia Cement is unique in that it has at least one plant in each of the four major eastern states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha.
Dalmia's business goal is to be in the top two in all its businesses through the strength of its people and the speed of its innovation. To achieve this goal on an innovation front, they want to centralize their IT infrastructure, modernize their applications, and reduce costs, including license costs. They also want to transform their applications and make them future-ready in order to accelerate innovation.
Dalmia Cement operates a business model that relies on on-premise and third party (NetMagic), data centre for storing and processing all the data generated by its various services. Our assessment identified a total of 123 servers and 11 applications hosted in these locations. The company processes a large amount of data, on SAP and non-SAP applications, which is used for invoicing, data processing, transformation, and analysis by various business units in both the headquarters and cement plants. As the business continues to grow, the company aims to migrate its data centre to the AWS cloud to increase agility and build a sustainable ecosystem. In addition, the company is facing challenges during peak periods due to heavy workloads on critical applications and poor overall performance of the current data centre. The company is seeking a secure and cost-effective solution with high availability and disaster recovery for SAP and Non-SAP data with continual running business.
Keys Drivers:
1. To find scalable, agile and high availability solutions for Dalmia Infrastructure in the long run.
2. Extension of the private cloud contract, with critical business applications and ERPs hosted on the private cloud.
3. Limitations and constraints in the technology front are hindering faster business growth and innovation in on-premise infrastructure.
As an AWS Premier Partner, Minfy brings a range of deep expertise in cloud migration and infrastructure management, adhering to AWS best practices, built upon its proven experience. Minfy believes that clients can migrate and run their HANA and MySQL databases on the AWS Cloud, taking full advantage of its agility.
EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, Security HUB, Cloud Endure and Launch Wizard
1. Minfy leveraged the Migration Acceleration Program to create a business case for migration to AWS.
2. We performed a well-architected review on SAP workloads and non-SAP applications.
3. We designed and deployed an SAP HANA HA-DR solution in accordance with AWS Well-Architected Recommendations and SAP standards.
4. Minfy implemented an HA solution for SAP HANA workloads in different availability zones within the Mumbai region and a disaster recovery configuration in the Singapore region to ensure optimal use of services and no data loss through data synchronization.
5. The Sugar SAP workload was directly replicated through Cloud Endure in the DR site.
6. We migrated legacy non-SAP applications through the Database Migration Service (DMS) for MySQL and MSSQL.
7. We configured AWS RDS for non-SAP databases for SDMS and PLMS-UAT, providing a hassle-free service and high availability.
8. A Transit Gateway was configured to establish a secure connection between the virtual private connection in the cloud and the on-premise database/application.
9. AWS S3 was used to store data across cement plants throughout India, as well as HANA complete and log backups.
10. COMMVAULT and AWS Backup were deployed for all EC2 backups and file backups. COMMVAULT was used to restore file-level backups, and AWS backups were used to restore EC2s.
11. Active Directory was configured for all user management access and privileges, including server connectivity through Password Manager Pro.
12. A cloud operating model was defined and implemented, and cloud operations were transitioned to a managed service support.
14. 24x7 monitoring and management of databases and infrastructure was provided through a managed service model.
Minfy's Managed Services were instrumental in Dalmia's successful digital transformation journey, offering comprehensive support including:
1. Expert AWS infrastructure management
2. Efficient database management and monitoring for MySQL and MSSQL
3. Reliable backup monitoring and management through Commvault
4. Proactive disaster recovery management and support
5. Comprehensive operating system level support
6. Monitoring and optimization of non-SAP applications, such as Dotnet, IIS, and PHP
7. Cost optimization and capacity planning assistance.
1. A 35% reduction in total cost of ownership by scheduling non-production environments with over 50 virtual machines and provisioning the bare minimum for production environments with over 100 virtual machines, based on the needs of the application team.
2. The flexibility provided by AWS Cloud has allowed Dalmia to scale infrastructure according to business requirements.
3. By re-platforming critical legacy application databases into managed RDS, Dalmia has seen improved performance and reduced operational overhead for activities such as monthly patching and scheduling backups.
4. By helping Dalmia adopt cloud-native services, we're able to enable them in driving innovation and supporting their digital transformation initiatives
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Big Tree Entertainment which owns and operate India’s most loved entertainment platform BookMyShow, is one of the oldest and most experienced organisations in the entertainment ecosystem, having been around for over two decades. They strive to enable entities along the entire value chain of the entertainment ecosystem through @BookMyShow’s seamless delivery of outstanding user experience for consumers, organisers and partners.
Being India’s largest entertainment platform offering not just tickets for movies, plays, concerts, stand-up comedy and sporting events but also complete execution of live experiences, BookMyShow has contributed immensely to not just the Indian but also global Entertainment ecosystem. They have paved the way for other entertainment service providers by being the first to digitize their offerings through an online ticketing service platform which was how BookMyShow first began. The platform also provides full stack and end-to-end management services for all forms of movies and live events including hospitality, on-ground execution, ingress management & marketing outreach for both partners and consumers to experience the best-in-class entertainment be it out-of-home as it was traditionally or virtual, with offerings delivered safely to consumers’ homes via a virtual streaming experience, thereby covering the entertainment landscape in its entirety.
BookMyShow sells more that 200 million tickets on an annual run rate, which is the largest volume for an online entertainment platform in India. They also approximately get over 200 million monthly customer visits and 5 billion monthly page views on an average. This is a testament to their ability to innovate, respond, be sensitive & agile to changes in Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand, and proactively engage with the future. Thus, BookMyShow has done what many organisations fail to do, that is, to consistently stay relevant in their business space.
Here are 2 record-breaking metrics to acknowledge:
• January 2020 created history with the highest number of tickets ever sold at 23 million, for the first time on the platform
• BMS sold 2.1 million movie tickets for a single day on January 12, 2020, the highest ever sold in one day along with 7 consecutive days of 1 million tickets sold each day from January 10th until January 16th, 2020
Pattern of Typical Consumer Usage Traffic Surge Pre-Pandemic:
• Weekends have more traffic for ticket bookings as opposed to weekdays.
• New blockbusters releases spawn traffic surges, which typically happen every couple of weeks to sometimes months during regular release periods.
• Extremely high demand live entertainment events like music concerts, comedy stand-ups, theatrical performances, etc usually occur a few times a year.
As the pandemic hit and a nation-wide lockdown was imposed, BookMyShow was quick to sense the shift in tide and change tack to alter their service portfolio that had catered to out-of-home entertainment for the longest time to enable consumers to find virtual entertainment offerings on their favourite platform. This meant the company’s technology infrastructure was to urgently adapt, accommodate and respond to the ambiguity of the on-going environment. BookMyShow saw a window of opportunity to implement & accelerate their digital transformation in the pandemic. BookMyShow’s many agile transformations through the years to stay strong, resilient and relevant in the face of multiple external downturns has been largely due to a robust technology and product platform built adeptly over several years.
With the pandemic presenting the opportunity to shift to a smoother digital infrastructure, BookMyShow was looking to further improve their system & process level efficiencies, reduce operational costs significantly, while continuing to remain agile & nimble. This would aid their journey towards being further future-ready while having robust practices & resilient operations all achieved during a period of reduced customer activity.
Thus, adopting the Cloud-based system posed many benefits that would accrue to BookMyShow. A cloud environment enabled BookMyShow to focus its energies & resources on building offerings that provide the ultimate seamless experience for customers. Secondly, the ability to leverage AWS Cloud Services like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, etc, would help accelerate innovation for both core and emerging offerings. Further, the adoption of new technologies helps BookMyShow attract & retain critical talent across functions within the organisation while aiding decision making far more cost effective in the long run, with little need for capital expenditure to buy & maintain infrastructure and elastic operational expenditure thanks to the Pay-as-you-go Model (likening it to a Light Switch).
The entire Cloud Migration Process consist of two phases:
• Phase 1: Rehost – Lift & Shift BMS Site & Services to AWS Cloud (Completed)
• Phase 2: Refactor – Optimize & Adopt Cloud Native Technologies (On-Going)
BookMyShow has always prided itself on rapid time-to-market, a major prerequisite to being a successful organization in the entertainment business space. Therefore, the @minfyteam leveraged infrastructure as a code (IaaC), which served purposefully due to its ability to turn complex systems and environments into a few lines of code, deploying them at a click of a button.
Perhaps a major point of interest is how BookMyShow decided to leverage Gravtion2 for production workloads. It gave us a significant opportunity to improve the price-performance profile of some of the major database workloads that we currently run-on Amazon EC2. We scheduled the start and stop to run in the business hours, and calculated cost projections monthly to realize the savings achieved during the migration period. Therefore, having benchmarked the new Graviton2-based R6g and C6g instances, we have potentially lowered costs by 30% compared to similar workloads on other instances. We take this as a major lesson learned during this transformation journey.
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Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL) is a focal point of the Power Sector in UP, who is responsible for managing the sector through its transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity. Recently, UPPCL has taken an initiative of IT enablement for its business processes like Consumer Billing, Customer care, Metering, Energy Auditing, Geographical Information System, consumer indexing etc.
UPPCL distributes power to more than 30 million consumers (includes 23 million Billing/RMS data and Consumer data on UOC – Utility Operations Center) having a connected load of 37,000 MW and energy sales of about 55,000 MU per year.
The priority areas are increasing billing efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction by focusing on reducing daily operational challenges via implementation of a centralized billing and metering system in a cloud environment.
UPPCL has 35+ applications developed by different SIs before this RFP, all these applications were either hosted in UPPCL on prem DC or any third part DC of SI’s choice. Now out of these 35 applications, we have migrated more than 25 applications to AWS and all the respective cloud infra on AWS is being managed by Minfy. We are providing PS, RS, and MS services to UPPCL.
Challenges-
• Low revenue-realization due to incorrect billing and lack of collections
• The absence of a centralized billing system
• High capex involved in establishing DC/DR etc
• Increasing consumer complaints regarding thefts and pilferage
• High losses due to low billing and collection inefficiency
• Increased billing and collection efficiency in rural areas
• Reduced AT&C losses owing to better grip on commercial losses
• Fast implementation, leading to quick results and benefits
• No capex, leading to a reduced burden on utility
• Centralization of data and implementation of a common billing system, leading to higher accuracy and efficiency
• More power to consumers by enabling self-service capabilities through web portals and mobile applications
• Better connectivity and communication between utility and consumers through SMS notifications
• More reliable and secured network owing to a cloud-based infrastructure
• Mobile spot billing app integrated with UOC and MWM to improve metering and billing efficiency and arrest revenue leakage.
• Easy and quick bill-generation through spot-billing
• Efficient revenue collection through a self-service mobile application, which includes both trust meter reading and billing
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Our client is an Indian government oil and gas corporation. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The corporation operates two large refineries of the country located in Kochi and Mumbai.
The company is India's 2nd largest downstream oil company and is ranked 275th on the Fortune list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2019.
Conversational AI
As part of their Digital Transformation Client planning to provide a self-service information and transactional tool for internal and external users using a ChatBot service. That will transform their current business process and ease the payments/customer experience for the distributors and 14800 fully automated fuel stations It should understand natural language queries keyed-in by the user and provide the information requested or process a transaction on behalf of the user.
1. Provide FAQ Knowledge base linked information through easy chat flow.
2. Enhance user experience by integrating with NLP API’s.
3. Process relevant transaction based on user’s input
4. BOT Application to be interfaced with on-premise SAP/.Net applications to perform transactions.
Business Analytics and Data Visualization
Client’s transactional data resides in SAP systems and MS SQL/Oracle/PostgreSQL databases. On-premise SAP Business Warehouse is being used as the corporate data warehouse. The data stored across all these systems is to be made available for analysis using a Business Analytics and Data Visualization tool. It should enable creations of analytical artefacts like reports, dashboards, KPIs and so on and also allow easy access to these components to the end users for consumption.
1. Analytical reports and dashboards based on data stored in both on- premise as well as cloud based systems.
2. Broadcasting reports to end users through emails(including attachment capabilities)
3. To integrate with multiple data sources including on premise SAP- BI Hana server.
AI-Architecture
Minfy has proposed to build the AI Conversational bot leveraging a partner solution MY-ASSIT a low code platform to build the chatbot, the solution has NLP capabilities:
· Assistant uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Advanced Dialog management, and Machine Learning (ML) to understand, react and learn from every interaction.
· Facilitates conversations between a customer and a business, and within the business to automate operations.
Minfy builds the conversational AI leveraging below AWS native services :
1. AWS Cognito
2. AWS Sagemaker.
3. API Gateway
4. AWS Lamda
5. Elasticsearch
6. AWS Fargate
7. AWS Comprehend
- Myassit - Low Code Chatbot development platform helped to develop the solution in 5X lesser time of native development.- AI --- - Models had been created with the help of the past 15 years of data provided by the customer and these models can be re-trained with ease with help of the customization framework available in Myassist.
- The customer could leverage AWS for the acceleration of their innovation without any hassle in a hybrid approach
- AWS Fargate helps to scale the infrastructure no worries of provisioning and deprovisioning of the infrastructure
- QuickSight helped to embed interactive dashboards into client applications, websites, and portals with its serverless architecture that automatically scales to tens of thousands of users in pay as you go model.
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The Bihar School Examination Board is established for holding and conducting an examination at the end of the Secondary School stage, for prescribing course of studies for such examination and for carrying out such duties as may be considered necessary for the purpose as stated in the Act, Rules and Regulations of the Board. Bihar School Examination Board conducts Annual Secondary School Examination in the month of February/March and Supplementary School Examination in the month of August/September on the basis of course/syllabus as prescribed by the state Government.
As a part of the Digital India initiative Bihar state examination board has developed an online university collaboration platform that allows students to apply for multiple graduate colleges admission, application status tracking & admission status and results tracking as well, all in single click.
Core Problems stated by the State Education Board & Universities were:
1. Frequent downtimes during load on their on premise hosting.
2. Unable to match access spikes on physical DC set-up.
3. Unable to scale database for shorter duration due to licensing issues and hardware unavailability.
4. Uneven traffic as the portal usage will be high only during admissions & results, infrastructure agility is the most imperative component on the expected solutions – Scaling up more servers during admissions & scaling down after
the admissions are over.
With High profile public-sector involvement and impact on the exam results/data provided to be showcased on this platform, which has high media vicinity, the unpredictable nature of the viewer count, including the high data volume, the challenge put across the team was to come up with a solution covering all aspects of scalability.
The view count was expected to be in hundreds per second with a target audience of 30 Million students. The application should be able to withstand such a load without any downtime. Since there is payment transaction is also involved there could not have been a downtime for even a few seconds.
Minfy’ s Enterprise Cloud Architects worked with the Infrastructure team of the customer to migrate their website on AWS paying special attention of cost, scalability & security.
The proposed solution will enable them to scale from a minimal set of users to thousands at any given time. To accomplish this requirement, the solution was implemented using services such as AWS Autoscale, AWS EC2, AWS Elastic Load balancer and AWS S3.
● A highly scalable and available web architecture was proposed on AWS for this workload.
● Application was designed using .Net by an ISV partner with ALB, Active Directory and Multiple Application Servers for modules.
● AWS Auto Scaling will manage un Healthy EC2instances. AWS AutoScaling will ensure minimum number app& dev EC2 instances are always running ,In event of failure , new instances will be launched between 30-120 seconds automatically .
● To ensure on high availability the image of the application server has been launched in another availability zone to make sure the
application availability if any disaster strikes i.e if the primary Availability Zone goes down.
1. Serverscould handle a consistent load of over25000 sessions without any downtime.
2. During the last two days before the deadline for the application for admissions the load increased multi-folds. Additional base servers were launched to address those workloads.
3. Compared to the previous year where in there were frequent down times, this year experienced none.
4. Application performance was maintained as Core and RAM usage was maintained below 75% due to Auto Scale.
6. Additional compute could be provisioned on the database as well during the last few days of registration
7. More or less all the users who had applied to various colleges on the platform logged in on a single day within the first hour to check for results asity got declared.
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iQuippo is India’s first and largest digital market-place for construction equipment, machinery, commercial vehicles, and services. The platform facilitates the renting and purchase of new and used equipment, with over 5000 such assets listed since inception. With its several innovative features, value added services, and financing solutions, buyers and sellers can interact, negotiate, and close deals in a timely, transparent and cost-effective manner. iQuippo is fast becoming a preferred mode of transactions for industry stakeholders. The 18,000+ registered users on the platform include infrastructure, real estate, and OEM companies; and financial institutions, contractors, rental agencies and brokers, as well as individuals
iQuippo was using costly on-premises infrastructure which needed to be regularly upgraded to match the surge in demand as the digital marketplace concept gained traction within the construction industry. Moreover, as the portal evolved, developers at the company were regularly releasing new builds almost weekly with new features and solutions. But they did not have sturdy release mechanisms or automated roll-back plans in place. Often, site users would experience bug- and human error-related issues and portal downtime.
Information security was also a concern, as iQuippo offered financing solutions through its tie-ups with banks and financial institutions. The portal had to meet the stringent financial data security requirements of the Reserve Bank of India. As part of an early initiative to reduce capital expenditure and address data security issues, iQuippo had decided to host its Disaster Recovery (DR) mechanisms on the cloud.
It approached Minfy, an AWS managed services specialist to help it do this. Later, as the benefits of cloud hosting became apparent, the scope of services increased to include architecting a comprehensive cloud solution for the core iQuippo application as well. To tackle the issues of bugs arising due to insufficiently streamlined development and release cycles, Minfy was also asked to help with end-to-end automation of the company’s software development processes which would follow DevOps best practices.
To tackle these challenges, Minfy, an AWS managed-services specialist, developed a robust and secure, DevOps compliant, AWS cloud-hosted infrastructure architecture. The high-level diagrams below provide an overview of the three-tiered application stack. Under the new scheme, the core iQuippo website application frontend uses Nginx webserver running on an Amazon Linux server with a backend MongoDB database. This setup would not require any build or deployment on the webservers as Nginx can also works as a reverse proxy server.
For the iQuippo backend, the app node is developed using JavaS-cript and the source code repository is maintained through AWS Code Commit. The source code is automatically built using Grunt on AWS CodeBuild, and deployed on AWS EC2 instances running in a virtual private cloud (VPC) using AWS CodeDeploy. The application architecture also includes Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS IAM.
The iQuippo marketplace now operates far more reliably and with zero downtime deployments. Because of the stability and excellent security features available on the portal, users can conduct large financial transactions without concern. Through hosting the portal on the AWS cloud, the portal is reaping the benefits of infrastructure and cost optimization, proactive monitoring, and continuous delivery.
The Minfy team continues to provide support through monitoring, detecting events, analysing and resolving issues, providing root cause analysis, and deploying needed changes. As iQuippo scales further, deploys even more innovative schemes and features, and expands into newer geographies, its reliable cloud-enabled infrastructure is enabling
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Trans Neuron is a technology start-up engaged in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enabled cloud solutions for India’s underserved skilling industry. It has created a thriving skills ecosystem, through bringing together academia, students, large corporates, and government agencies onto innovative digital platforms. Trans Neuron’s platform features include industry aligned courses, skill acceleration programs, collaborative learning tools, certifications, live projects and internships, virtual incubation for young entrepreneurs, cognitive bot career counselling, online mentorship, teacher training, and AI hiring tools.
Challenge
India has a growing supply-demand gap for skilled manpower across sectors. Several academic institutions across the country are inadequately staffed, lack necessary infrastructure, and are insufficiently exposed to the industry for placements, curriculum development, and trainings.
Towards addressing these challenges, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), an agency of the central government, signed a partnership agreement with Trans Neuron for innovative technology solutions. During the early start-up days and during the initial phases of idea development, software developers were coding, testing, building, and deploying the user interface (UI) and backend API services manually through their laptops and local servers. As the initial platform grew in scope and complexity, updates and new features had to be regularly deployed, and its infrastructure also needed to be scaled up to be able to serve users across the nation.
However, the inchoate processes typical of a start-up company were giving rise to delays and missed deadlines. Trans Neuron felt the need to streamline their efforts, and approached Minfy for help with a framework for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).
Results
Minfy’s implementation of the DevOps compliant cloud architecture is now helping Trans Neuron developers meet their targets and deadlines. Software building and deployment processes that were earlier haphazard, are now greased to perfection, and the platform is seeing zero downtime. This has better-positioned the company to focus on innovation and creativity, and the speedy release of ever more useful functionality. An increasing number of students, academic institutions, and enterprises across the country are benefiting from the possibilities unleashed by Trans Neuron’s skilling ecosystem on the cloud. In the background, the Minfy team views the new architecture undergirding the cloud solution as a worthwhile effort towards the skill development of India’s youth.
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The Department of IT, Manipur State Data Centre (SDC) is an entity under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP)planned to consolidate services, applications and infrastructure to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C andG2B services. It is act as central repository of all data and applications/websites for the entire Government of Manipur.
Software & Hardware: Legacy applications were running on outdated hardware that wasn't delivering the performance required.
Operational Expenditure: Operational expenses needed to be reduced, including hardware maintenance costs.
Infrastructure Agility: Government to Citizen applications needed more agility on the infrastructure as traffic will be agile based on schemes.
Multiple IT Vendors: The company had multiple vendors and support contracts resulting in significant management overhead costs.
Minfy lifted & shifted the 16 critical G2G,G2C and G2B applications to AWS seamlessly, paying special attention to maximizing uptime and ensuring business continuity for all core websites of DIT. They reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business.
Minfy started the cloud adoption journey of Department of IT Manipur with a complete study of their existing IT infrastructure and costs, including recommendations and detailed migration plan With a detailed plan in place, Minfy worked with DIT, Manipur to migrate their applications to AWS, including the 16 critical G2G, G2C and G2B applications.
• Ability to start and stop non-production services on-demand to reduce operational costs
• Ability to run legacy applications independent of hardware or operating system restrictions by utilizing Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Ability to consolidate critical G2G, G2C andG2B applications to AWS with no business interruptions by leveraging the centralized AWS computing platform
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Ramadevi Public School, established in 2002 by Ramadevi Trust strives continuously for the all round development of its students. The school has pre-primary, primary, middle and senior sections. Ramadevi Public-school has1600 students, 66 teaching staff and 76 non-teaching staff together. The school has vast infrastructure and committed staff for improving academic standards. They believe in ” Progress towards perfection “.
Being a leading public-school , the traffic to the website during the admission period which is from January to March of every year has been very high & unpredictable even resulted in crashing of the website.
Minfy's Implementation team along with the Cloud architects worked with Infrastructure team & business stakeholders from the customer’s end to derive out the migration plan to ensure on zero / very minimal interruption to the website’s availability.
● Applications were moved in a manual lift and shift approach.
● According to customer's solution architecture, server size, OS and
RAM the Infrastructure on cloud was designed and deployed.
• Agility in the infrastructure
• Performance at Scale
• Faster Innovation
• High Availability
• Security
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Shore Infotech is an Information technology organization that specializes in customer data management and provides key insights forecasting based on data analytics. The organization can help clients to leverage the data, structured or unstructured to achieve the required goals. Shore offers a vast range of business intelligence, proprietary datasets, and technologies that work to use the power of big data to solve challenges that require precision and expertise.
They leverage the latest technology and techniques in data harvesting, processing, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing to help actualize your unique path to success.
Since the business model deals with the storage of large amounts of structured and unstructured data in the form of documents, images and videos for analytics purpose, reliability, availability, and durability along with cost becomes a major challenge. Another challenge was accidental deletion of data with less or no option for retrieval.
Shore Group also wished to overhaul their existing document repository and discovery product to meet the growing market expectations related to search and performance.
1. Set up file management and content processing engine based on the Serverless Application Modelling Architecture of AWS
2. AWS DynamoDB has been configured to manage the workflow entities
3. AWS SQS has been configured to ensure parallel processing of file movement from one bucket to another and to extract content from each file
4. AWS Elasticsearch has been configured to allow a full-text search of the document
5. We used the S3versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored.
-SAP Solutions Manager 7.2 is to be Installed at AWS.
Shore has adapted AWS to resolve existing challenges, also achieving durability of 11 9’s and availability of 99.9% through it. S3 versioning was leveraged to ensure data was never lost even if it is accidentally deleted.
The need to have SAN, NAS infrastructure for redundant backup storage and infrastructure was no longer necessary as buckets could be replicated. EBS based solution with EC2 instance running watcher functions was not an ideal solution for shore group as it did not ensure security or reliability.
Nodes with watcher functions on EC2 instances to watch for files to be processed were replaced with SQS along with the logic of processing of the input jobs automatically using Lambda. This has enabled shore to go serverless reducing overheads of SLA and increasing performance.
Data breach threat was solved by using Server Side Encryption and Key Management Service – KMS-SSE combination to protect S3 buckets.
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