QuriousCode Case Study:Core5

QuriousCode, a fast-growing software development company, needed a new development environment that mirrored its production architecture on AWS. Core5, an AWS Partner, provided a scalable and secure solution using AWS Cloud Infrastructure, enabling QuriousCode to meet client demands, improve reliability, and reduce costs.
About the Customer
QuriousCode specializes in building innovative, scalable applications for diverse clients across multiple industries. The company leverages AWS to power its production environments, ensuring high availability, security, and performance for its software solutions.
Customer Challenge
QuriousCode faced the challenge of setting up a development environment in a separate AWS account that would replicate its production architecture. The client required an environment that was not only identical to production but also reliable, scalable, and secure. Without this, the development team risked issues like inconsistent performance between environments and security vulnerabilities during the application development process.
Additionally, the customer required seamless workflow integration for its developers and a mechanism to handle high traffic during testing phases. Failure to address these issues would lead to delays in development and testing, limiting the company’s ability to deliver robust solutions on time.
Why AWS
QuriousCode chose AWS as the foundation for its new development environment due to AWS’s proven reliability and flexibility. AWS’s global reach, especially in regions like Mumbai, provided the infrastructure needed to create a development environment that closely mirrored production. With services like Amazon EC2, RDS, S3, and Route 53, QuriousCode could ensure that the new environment was secure, scalable, and optimized for both performance and cost.
Why the Customer Chose Core5
Core5 was uniquely qualified to take on this challenge due to its deep expertise in AWS architecture and experience in setting up similar environments for other businesses. QuriousCode selected Core5 for their track record of delivering robust and secure AWS solutions tailored to client-specific needs. Their experience in integrating development workflows within AWS environments and ensuring seamless migration of resources further solidified the decision.
Core5’s participation in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Service Delivery Programs demonstrated their proficiency in AWS best practices, making them the ideal partner for this engagement.
Partner Solution
Core5 designed a robust AWS solution for QuriousCode’s development environment:
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Core5 set up a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the Mumbai region, providing a secure and isolated environment. Resources, including EC2 instances and RDS databases, were deployed across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
- Redundancy and Scalability: Auto Scaling was implemented to dynamically adjust computing resources based on demand. This ensured that the development environment could handle fluctuations during testing phases, replicating the production performance under high traffic.
- Security Measures: Core5 integrated AWS WAF and IAM policies to enhance security and prevent unauthorized access. Route 53 managed domain traffic and ensured that the development environment mirrored the production environment during testing and migration phases.
- Content Management and Delivery: Static assets were stored in Amazon S3 buckets for both staging and production, ensuring efficient content delivery. Route 53 further facilitated smooth DNS management, enhancing availability.
- Development Workflow Integration: Core5 streamlined developer access by integrating the solution into QuriousCode’s existing workflow. This enabled the development team to collaborate more efficiently and ensure faster deployment cycles.
Results and Benefits
The solution delivered by Core5 resulted in several key benefits for QuriousCode:
- Improved Reliability: By leveraging AWS’s multi-AZ architecture, QuriousCode achieved 99.99% uptime, minimizing any risk of downtime.
- Enhanced Scalability: AWS Auto Scaling ensured that the environment dynamically adjusted resources during periods of high demand, preventing performance bottlenecks during critical development stages.
- Increased Security: Integration of AWS WAF and IAM policies reduced the risk of security breaches by 40%, ensuring that both environments were protected from common vulnerabilities.
- Cost Optimization: QuriousCode reduced its cloud infrastructure costs by 25% through the use of appropriate instance types, reserved instances, and scaling strategies.
Next Steps
QuriousCode plans to continue working with Core5 to enhance its cloud infrastructure, with potential future upgrades including the adoption of containerization technologies like AWS Fargate to further optimize application performance and reduce costs.
About Core5
Core5 is a leading System Integrator and Technology Provider, offering high-end IT technical and consulting solutions to businesses, organizations, and government entities. As a certified AWS Partner, Core5 focuses on delivering simple, secure, and cost-effective IT solutions to enhance operational efficiency and ensure rapid returns on investment.