HealthTech startup
A HealthTech startup asked us to check its cloud workload against AWS best practice and to find security gaps. The review led to fixes in its database, cost control and sign-in.
The facts
The result
A well-monitored systemAmazon CloudWatch now gives continuous oversight of the environment
What the review looked at
- Operational excellence: not covered
- Security: covered
- Reliability: covered
- Performance efficiency: covered
- Cost optimization: covered
- Sustainability: covered
The challenge
- A workload to check against AWS best practice.
- Security gaps, including multi-factor sign-in and credential management.
- Cost under tight watch.
What we did
- Reviewed the workload and listed what needed to improve.
- Re-evaluated the databases, and proposed caching with Amazon ElastiCache and Redis.
- Introduced tagging to find and remove unused resources, with CloudWatch for spend.
- Recommended changes to multi-factor sign-in and credential management.
- Set out a document management system for version control and lifecycle.
- Gave one month of free management, so the team learned to run it.
What came of it
- Cost, security, performanceCost-efficiency, security and system performance improved.
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