Cloud Migration – Domains & WordPress Sites to AWS

About Client

An ICT solution provider established in 2007, headquartered in KSA, with an extended geographical presence in the Middle East, Africa & Europe.

Business Requirement

The client wanted to consolidate the DNS Record Management and Providers.

They wanted to consolidate the web hosting to a single platform.

The performance and load time needed improvement.

Website security needed to be improved.

Ease of manageability and administration.

Scalability requirements to accommodate future growth and security improvements.

For all of the above, the client was keen on a low-cost solution.

CCS Solution

CCS Team did an expert analysis of the business needs.

Analysed the business requirement and all website sites traffic.

Infra met compliance and security needs at low cost.

Suggested to upgrade the WordPress and Databases to improve security.

Right-sized and provisioned the optimal resources based on current usage pattern.

EC2 Instances were considered for Single Host Multi Site WordPress Deployment.

AWS Lambda for Automation of the AMI backups.

CloudFront for effective low latency content delivery and static content caching.

Lambda@Edge is used to secure the website using Security Headers.

AWS WAF and SSL security improvement and Secure access.

ACM certificates to save SSL certificate cost and end to end encryption.

Route 53 is used for the DNS management.

Monitored the cloud infrastructure using CloudWatch.

Business Benefits

Faster and secure access across all geo locations.

Improved the load time and response time of all websites.

Significantly increased performance.

Provided the client with greater control and flexibility.

Seamless migration of DNS and websites with no major issues.

Incorporated Backup and DR solution without additional charges.

Made it possible for the client to easily scale up/scale down as per business needs.