The Client
Our client, HealthPro Insurance, is a premier Medicare insurance broker, ranked among the top 5 in the United States by Healthcare.gov. Their comprehensive offerings include specialized support for health insurance, Dental, Vision, and long-term life insurance, ensuring their clients receive the best possible care and coverage.
HealthPro provides valuable subsidies to employers, individual consumers, and nonprofits. They aim to enhance the accessibility and provision of insurance for all US citizens.
Challenges
Hosting all services on a single public cloud presented our client with numerous operational and security issues. Here is a list of the most prominent challenges.
- The sole reliance on a single public cloud and credential protection led to server overloading, security vulnerabilities, and platform instability.
- This posed instability with hosting production and staging environments.
- Subsequently, performance suffered, increasing operational costs and data risk, which hindered accessibility and scalability.
- Ensuring a seamless transition to AWS presented a complex challenge.
- A significant technical challenge was migrating from MariaDB to MySQL.
- Additionally, implementing autoscaling required careful planning.
Solution
We used a phase-wise approach to build a robust tech infrastructure and optimize costs efficiently. Here’s a brief description of the stepwise solution we implemented.
- Isolating staging and production environments.
- Transitioning from public to private cloud.
- Creating data-backup.
- Cost optimization by implementing autoscaling using AWS Aurora Serverless.
Results
Here are the results observed after implementing the above solution.
- Reduced on-platform search time to under 1 minute.
- Achieved a 300% boost in application performance.
- Our solution facilitated a 50% decrease in database and server management costs.
- Implemented automated backups and recovery.
- The system sends overload alerts via email and Slack.
- Migration to a private cloud offers end-to-end data encryption.
