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Case Study
Primary Storage For an E-Commerce Company
E-Commerce Company is a leading retail chain in India, specializing in consumer electronics and durables. With over 100+ stores nationwide and 3500+ products across 11+ categories, it delivers quality, value, and exceptional service. Built on a foundation of trust and customer-centricity, the brand continues to be a preferred destination for modern tech shoppers.
Challenges
Use Case: PRIMARY STORAGE Switching a project from on-premises infrastructure to AWS offers several advantages, especially when dealing with complex, data-intensive, and dynamic environments for related projects. However, there are also challenges associated with on-premises infrastructure that drive the decision to migrate to the cloud.
- Limited Scalability: On-premises systems typically have fixed hardware and capacity limits. Scaling these systems requires purchasing and installing additional physical hardware, which is time-consuming, costly, and often requires physical space and power resources. As project needs grow (e.g., more data, more users, or increased complexity), expanding on-prem infrastructure can be slow and expensive.
- High Capital Expenditure: On-premises infrastructure often involves significant upfront costs for hardware, software, data centers and maintenance. These investments can tie up capital and create budget constraints, which are alleviated with AWS’s pay-as-you-go model.
- Maintenance and Management Overhead: Managing on-premises infrastructure requires a dedicated IT team to handle server maintenance, updates, patching, and security. This adds operational complexity and overhead, especially as the infrastructure grows. Regular hardware failures, performance issues, and security vulnerabilities can also require additional management effort, which could distract from core business activities.
- Security Risks: While on-prem systems offer control over security, they also require constant management to protect against evolving threats. Security patches must be applied manually, and maintaining a robust security posture without the resources available in the cloud can be a significant challenge. On-prem systems may also be more vulnerable to breaches due to outdated software or insufficient security resources.
- Complexity of Remote Access and Collaboration: On-premises systems may struggle with providing seamless remote access and collaboration tools, especially as teams become more distributed. With cloud infrastructure, users can access data and applications from anywhere, improving productivity and collaboration across teams, whether they are in different locations or working from home.
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Complexity in Data Management
• Manual Intervention: Managing and organizing large volumes of data requires constant manual oversight in on-prem environments, from setting up backup schedules to ensuring data integrity. Mistakes or human error can lead to data loss.
• Data Fragmentation: Storing data on multiple devices, drives, or servers without centralized management can lead to fragmentation, making it difficult to track and retrieve data efficiently. - Monitoring and Performance Tracking: On-prem systems often lack comprehensive monitoring tools, making it difficult to track CPU and memory utilization, disk space, and overall system health in real time. Without proper monitoring, performance bottlenecks and system failures can go unnoticed until they cause significant downtime.
Wyse Solution
Wysetek had proposed and implemented AWS Elastic Block Store [EBS] to address this requirement.
• Elastic Block Store [EBS]: It is a scalable block storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to create and manage persistent storage volumes that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances. EBS provides highperformance, durable storage for a wide variety of workloads, including databases, applications, and file systems.
Used Services :
AWS Site-to-Site VPN provides a secure and reliable way to connect your on-premises network to AWS, ensuring encrypted communication and simplifying the management of hybrid cloud environments. It’s ideal for businesses that need a secure and cost-effective method for extending their network into the cloud.
We discussed about their current usage pattern with On-prem Active Directory. It is widely used in corporate networks for managing and organizing resources, security, and user authentication. It is a centralized system that helps IT administrators manage users, groups, devices, and other network resources in a structured way.
We have created ADC, File, Veeam B&R and AWS-Appliance servers.
We used CloudWatch to monitor the resources for overall project activity. In that we have created two custom dashboards for CPU and Memory utilization for ec2 instances.
It is a service that allows you to monitor and log activity across your AWS account, providing visibility into actions taken on your resources
AS per the customer requirement created 2TB gp3 EBS volume and it is attached to File Server.
As the single file size was large, we suggested to use higher throughput until the desire result is achieved. And for gp3 storage currently used 125 mbps throughputs and 3000 IOPS depending upon the team size, works smoothly for the customer.
It is a scalable, high-performance object storage for to store Veeam Backup.
Installed Veeam Backup & Replication on AWS enables you to easily back up, protect, and restore your cloud resources, improving data availability and reducing downtime.
Sophos Firewall provides strong protection, easy management, and secure access, making it essential for maintaining a secure and efficient network.
AWS IAM helps you manage user access, secure resources, and control who can do what within your AWS environment, ensuring a secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Using AWS Lambda functions to start and stop EC2 instances is an efficient way to automate instance management, saving on costs when instances are not in use and ensuring they are started when needed. By combining Lambda with CloudWatch Events, you can fully automate your EC2 lifecycle based on a schedule or other event triggers.
AWS EventBridge is used to automate the process of starting and stopping instances according to a predefined schedule. It triggers AWS Lambda functions at specified times, ensuring that instances are started or stopped as needed, optimizing resource usage and cost. This setup ensures efficient management of resources by automatically adjusting the availability of instances based on time-based rules.
AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) is used to send email notifications to the customer whenever the Lambda function triggers to start or stop the server instances. This ensures that the customer is informed in real time about the status of the instances, providing clear visibility into the automated process.
AWS Systems Manager simplifies the management and automation of your AWS resources, helping you maintain security, compliance, and operational efficiency across your environment.
Solution Diagram
Outcome
The solution offered allowed the customer to share files more efficiently, securely, and with greater reliability between team members, all authenticated through Active Directory. By leveraging Active Directory’s native features on Amazon EC2 for authentication and permission management, the customer gained confidence in the solution and reassurance regarding the security of critical data. Additionally, since the customer understands that EBS storage is scalable and reliable, he can adjust both storage capacity and throughput as needed whenever the requirement changes.
1. Thanks to its scalable throughput, customers can now easily connect with multiple users and collaborate simultaneously.
2. Appropriate security permissions are assigned based on user groups, managed via Active Directory. With the use of a VPN, access to data stored on EBS volume is restricted to users within the network.
3. AWS EBS Volume offers flexible performance, capable of supporting both demanding and high-performance workloads. The service is designed to provide fast, scalable, consistent, and predictable performance.
4. To meet the daily backup requirement, the requirement of daily backup is achieved using AWS Veeam Backup.
5. So overall solution helped the customer in reduction is on-going cost by 45%.
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