{"id":44347,"date":"2023-09-14T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=44347"},"modified":"2023-09-18T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:52:11","slug":"modernizing-legacy-aws-setup-for-a-fintech-company-to-enhance-efficiency-and-user-protection","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/case-study\/modernizing-legacy-aws-setup-for-a-fintech-company-to-enhance-efficiency-and-user-protection","title":{"rendered":"Modernizing Legacy AWS Setup for a FinTech Company to Enhance Efficiency and User Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auquan is a FinTech company which is headquartered in London and offers financial services, Algorithmic Trading, and Quantitative Trading. Their AI-driven Portfolio Intelligence Engine offers pre-market insights, empowering portfolio managers, research analysts, and corporate teams for enhanced research and proactive market actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1291,"featured_media":44353,"parent":0,"template":"","cat_resources":[6],"technology":[32],"published_by":"1291","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":{"banner_image":44352,"resources_label":"","download_url":"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Auquan-Case-Study-1.pdf","client_logo":44684,"highlights":{"first_part":{"icon":336,"title":"99.95% ","subtitle":"Optimized Performance and Availability"},"second_part":{"icon":335,"title":"SQL Server migration to Amazon RDS","subtitle":"(Enhanced Scalability and Automation)"},"third_part":{"icon":334,"title":"Improved Security and Management","subtitle":"Secure Cross-Account Migration"}},"the_challenge":"The legacy AWS setup posed security, privacy, and active directory concerns. Poor design lacked security groups, Network ACLs, causing inefficiencies without load balancers and Autoscaling. This limited scalability, causing 20-30 min downtimes (6-9 times daily) from traffic spikes and significantly affecting the business growth.","client_testimonial":{"image":"","description":"","author":""},"solutions":"<ul>\r\n \t<li>Migrated CRM application from public to private Amazon EC2, enhancing security and performance with optimized sizing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Boosted Microsoft SQL Server via Amazon RDS with DMS, delivering scalability and streamlined management.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Achieved smooth Windows Server AD migration to AWS Managed AD, elevating authentication and security.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Strengthened security with private Amazon EC2, security groups, and Network ACLs for data protection.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Implemented load balancer, Autoscaling for resource efficiency, scalability, and operational enhancement.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Stored app data in Amazon S3 with defined retention for compliance and efficient data management.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Proactively monitored performance via Amazon CloudWatch, swift issue response through custom alarms.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Leveraged Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, AWS Directory Service, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, AWS IAM, Amazon VPC.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","the_results":"Enhanced system architecture through cross-account migration, strengthened security via SQL Server Migration to Amazon RDS, resulting in load balancing, a 99.95% uptime, and smooth Azure AD integration within AWS SSO for authentication.","about_client_left_side":[{"field_63315a4dc06e1":"15085","field_63315a5bc06e2":"Industry\u00a0","field_63315a61c06e3":"FinTech"},{"field_63315a4dc06e1":"15083","field_63315a5bc06e2":"Expertise\u00a0","field_63315a61c06e3":"Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, AWS CloudTrail, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon SNS, Amazon VPC"},{"field_63315a4dc06e1":"15084","field_63315a5bc06e2":"Offerings\/solutions\u00a0","field_63315a61c06e3":"Successfully achieved secure AWS migration, boosted SQL Server on Amazon RDS, enhanced data protection, optimized load balancing, reached 99.95% availability, and streamlined access with Azure AD in AWS SSO."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/44347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/44347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44685,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/44347\/revisions\/44685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_resources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_resources?post=44347"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=44347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}