Framework Homeownership LLC seeks to empower a new generation of homebuyers and homeowners through education and counseling services.
The organization was expecting tremendous growth over the coming months and years, and anticipated a significant expansion of its infrastructure and operations to accommodate this growth. In view of this, Framework was seeking to assess its existing AWS infrastructure with the goal of ensuring that it was in a robust state to handle the projected growth. Alongside this, Framework was also looking to obtain options and recommendations for maintaining a secure, scalable and cost-optimized environment, and adopting operational best-practices.
Tgix’s assessment of Framework’s AWS infrastructure resulted in a comprehensive report that identified key issues in the environment, and provided recommendations for optimization and security improvements. The assessment focused on both the production and staging AWS accounts, and evaluated resources like VPC, EC2, ECS, RDS, EFS, S3, and CloudFront.
Critical issues pertaining to overall reliability, availability, scalability, and security were identified across the environment, and included network design flaws, unconventional VPN setup, lack of BC/DR capabilities, and multiple security concerns.
Best practices were noted, and included environment separation, use of containerization and Aurora PostgreSQL RDS, and adherence to Infrastructure-as-Code principles with CloudFormation templates.
Cost analysis revealed a steady upward trend over the past 12 months, with potential savings of at least 20% through Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Recommendations were provided in line with AWS Well-Architected principles, prioritizing practical and realistic improvements for the Framework team.
Framework gained insights into building a well-architected, cost-efficient AWS environment and successfully applied the recommendations to create a secure, reliable, and scalable architecture. The recommendations provided in the Assessment Report addressed critical issues to ensure the infrastructure could support growth objectives.
The TCO Analysis that was performed as part of the assessment revealed potential savings of at least 20% through Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. These were part of the recommendations that were implemented by Framework.
Core AWS (VPC, EC2, ALB, S3, Route 53, ACM, CloudWatch)
PostgreSQL RDS
AWS ECS
CloudFront
AWS Well-Architected Framework
NetApp CloudCheckr
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