Driving Agility with DevOps Automation & CI/CD Enablement
Resby, a leading real estate management firm, aimed to optimize its AWS infrastructure to ensure it adheres to best practices, improves performance, reduces costs, and strengthens security and reliability. The objective was to perform a Well-Architected Review and implement optimization recommendations for a secure, efficient, and scalable cloud environment.
- Well-Architected Review (5 pillars)
- Performance & cost optimization
- Security, reliability, governance
Client Overview
Resby, a leading real estate management firm, aimed to optimize its AWS infrastructure to ensure it adheres to best practices, improves performance, reduces costs, and strengthens security and reliability. The objective was to perform a Well-Architected Review and implement optimization recommendations for a secure, efficient, and scalable cloud environment.
Business Challenge
Before the Well-Architected Review, Resby faced inefficient resource utilization leading to higher costs, potential security and compliance gaps, limited observability and monitoring, and risks of downtime and performance bottlenecks under peak workloads.
Cost Inefficiencies
Over-provisioned/underutilized resources increased spend.
Security Gaps
IAM, encryption, and compliance controls needed hardening.
Low Observability
Insufficient monitoring and governance of workloads.
Reliability Risks
Potential downtime and bottlenecks during peaks.
Engagement Objectives
Conduct a full AWS Well-Architected Review across the 5 pillars; identify gaps and provide actionable recommendations; implement optimization strategies; enhance monitoring, governance, and compliance; ensure a scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient architecture.
Perform AWS Well-Architected Review across the five pillars.
Identify gaps and provide actionable recommendations.
Implement workload and infrastructure optimizations.
Enhance monitoring, governance, and compliance practices.
Ensure scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient architecture.
Validate addresses accurately using Google Maps API.
Solution Design
Genclouds conducted a detailed Well-Architected Review and designed an optimization plan:
Framework Assessment
Evaluated workloads against the 5 pillars.
Cost Rightsizing
Identified over-provisioned and underutilized resources.
Security Hardening
IAM best practices, encryption, audit logging.
Performance & Reliability
Auto-scaling, optimized storage, managed services.
Operational Excellence
Dashboards, CloudWatch alerts, automation.
Solution Architecture
Optimized AWS architecture across compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring, and automation.
Platform Architecture
Key improvements spanning compute, data, networking/security, monitoring, and IaC.
- Compute & Applications: Optimized EC2, ECS/EKS with auto-scaling
- Storage & Databases: S3, RDS with lifecycle policies and tuning
- Networking & Security: VPC, IAM best practices, KMS encryption, security groups
- Monitoring & Automation: CloudWatch dashboards, CloudTrail, Lambda automation, IaC via CloudFormation
- Workflow: User → AWS Lex → Pricing Engine → HubSpot → Postmark → Confirmation
Results & Outcomes
The optimization initiative improved costs, security, performance, operations, and scalability.
Instant Quotes: Users receive personalized cleaning service pricing in real time.
Lead Management: Automated HubSpot integration improved sales pipeline efficiency.
Email Automation: Instant confirmations reduced drop-offs and improved engagement.
User Experience: Responsive chatbot interface increased interaction and reduced form fatigue.
Address Accuracy: Google Maps API minimized errors in location details.
Conversion Rates: More visitors converted into qualified leads through AI-powered interaction.
Conclusion
The Well-Architected Review and Optimization transformed Resby’s AWS infrastructure into a secure, cost-efficient, and reliable environment. Applying AWS best practices optimized resources, strengthened security, and enhanced performance—positioning the organization for scalable, long-term success.