A leading Bengali newspaper wanting to increase user traffic on its website achieved high availability of 99% - CloudThat Resources

Industry

Media

Expertise

Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, AWS Loadbalancer

Offerings/Solutions

Ganashakti required a solution that would be able to handle the increasing user traffic on their website. They wanted their data to be highly available, secure, and persistent. The dilemma was whether to expand their existing on-premises infrastructure or reach out to cloud storage service providers

About the Client

Ganashakti is a leading newspaper from Kolkata, published in Bengali, with online and English weekly editions. Instituted in 1967, Ganashakti has been contributing to India’s leading B2B marketplace for 45+ years with a loyal customer base.

Highlights

99%

Increased availability

0.01%

Downtime post implementation

3k to 6k/ day

User traffic on cloud

The Challenge

A solution that would be able to handle the increasing user traffic on their website, and their data to be highly available, secure, and persistent.

Solutions

EBS volume GP3 with 3000 IOPS and 125 MBPS was used throughout as block volumes for E-paper, Bengali Website, and Databases server to provide a reliable, performance-induced, and cost-effective solution to server volumes.
EFS was used for the newspaper’s primary application (Bengali Website) as shared storage volume for the auto-scaled application.
AWS-managed encryption keys were used to encrypt the data for EBS and EFS.
Lifecycle policies were set for EFS for cost optimization.

The Results

Downtime due to Internet bandwidth and power outages was minimized as the workloads were moved to AWS.

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