Frontline Performance Group Optimizes IT Costs with Cloud Modernization and Application Re-architecture

Introduction

FPG provides customized consulting, one-on-one coaching, and proprietary training to leading hospitality brands worldwide.
The client had been facing scaling issues and a few security challenges with the web application being used.
With Axiom, the client now has increased security, high availability of applications and can auto-scale operations whenever required.

Challenges

• Single Tier Application
  The client was using a single-tier application leading to increased costs.
• Scalability and Availability Issues
  The client was unable to scale when required. Also, the application was lacking high availability, as all the VMs were hosted in a single zone.
• No Segregation Between Environments
  The IT environment had no isolation between user acceptance testing (UAT), staging and production environments.

Why Axiom?

Axiom, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, has a decade of experience in implementing cloud native workloads.With over 15+ enterprises and 50,000+ servers’ migration to the Cloud, Axiom has a proven approach to harnessing the power of the cloud.
Axiom’s approach provides faster, cost-effective and successful cloud transition with zero business impact.

Solution

Axiom re-architecture the application from a single-tier AWS virtual machine to Microservices based multi-tier architecture in less than 4 weeks. The deployment was automated using Kubernetes.

The team

• The team Implemented Elastic Load Balancing to distribute the traffic between the application server serer
• Set up high availability zones and disaster recovery practices with required backup
• The infrastructure and the applications have been hardened by executing Vulnerability
• Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) multiple times
• Isolated the UAT, Staging, and Production environments for maximum security
• Implemented security groups on AWS and whitelisted IP addresses of users for secure access control