Patrizia Portal AWS Infrastructure Optimization and Security
Patrizia, 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)
- Cost and performance optimization
- Security, reliability, and governance
Client Overview
Patrizia, a leading real estate management firm, aimed to optimize its AWS infrastructure to adhere to best practices, improve performance, reduce costs, and strengthen 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 review, the environment had inefficient resource utilization leading to higher costs, potential security and compliance gaps, limited observability, and risk of downtime and performance bottlenecks during peak workloads.
Cost Inefficiencies
Over-provisioned and underutilized resources increased spend.
Security Gaps
Potential gaps in IAM, encryption, and compliance controls.
Limited Observability
Insufficient monitoring and governance of workloads.
Reliability Risks
Possible downtime and bottlenecks under peak load.
Engagement Objectives
Conduct a Well-Architected Review, identify gaps, implement workload and infrastructure optimizations, enhance monitoring and governance, and ensure a scalable, reliable, cost-efficient architecture.
Perform AWS Well-Architected Review across 5 pillars.
Identify gaps and provide actionable recommendations.
Implement optimization strategies for workloads and infrastructure.
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 Well-Architected pillars.
Cost Rightsizing
Identified over-provisioned resources and underutilized instances.
Security Hardening
IAM best practices, encryption, audit logging, least privilege.
Performance & Reliability
Auto-scaling, optimized storage, and managed services adoption.
Operational Excellence
Dashboards, CloudWatch alerts, runbooks, and 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 Patrizia’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.