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The Client
A leading American supermarket chain exclusively featuring organic foods
Challenges
- Extant Infrastructure was not flexible or scalable to the growing seasonal demands of the Ecommerce Platform
- Lack of dedicated skillsets in managing current infrastructure and ability to scale the skills and bring in automation to Cloud Infrastructure
- Longer lead times with respect to infrastructure deployment & provisioning
Solutions
- Designed the blueprint solution to meet peak loads during seasonal demand and ensure the service could load within milliseconds
- Deployed key components i.e. e-commerce module, reporting services and network firewall in multi AZ
- Setting up security policies that meet with WFM IT security standards and HIPAA requirements
- With expected load during seasonal demand, performed 1000 concurrent users per minute test and noted the performance and utilization
- In addition, applied monitoring, key management, patch management services for server up to date and continuity of the services
Benefits
- Achieved higher infrastructure scalability, availability, internal & HIPAA security compliance
- Agility and Scale: E-Commerce platform firm became ready to extend its new infrastructure as it grew its user base and added new features and functionality
- Achieved operational excellence by implementing automation – Auto scaling deployment, effective monitoring and patching servers, etc
- Improved servers, application performance for growing seasonal demand
