Modernizing Cloud Operations on AWS for BSB Edge Private Limited
Modernizing Cloud Operations on AWS for BSB Edge Private Limited
How Velocis enabled a secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS environment with automated CI/CD, cross-region resilience, and 24×7 managed cloud operations to support regulatory-driven workloads.
BSB Edge Private Limited is a leading organization in the Information Services sector, headquartered in New Delhi, India. The company specializes in providing codes, standards, and compliance services for businesses, certification bodies, academia, and government institutions. With a strong emphasis on quality assurance and regulatory compliance, BSB Edge plays a critical role in enabling organizations to meet national and international standards.
Challenges
As part of its digital transformation initiative, BSB Edge Private Limited aimed to modernize its application and infrastructure landscape by migrating from its existing Cloud4C environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The objective was to enable greater scalability, strengthen security and compliance, and establish a more efficient and resilient cloud operating model.
Prior to engaging Velocis, BSB Edge encountered several operational and architectural challenges in its legacy cloud environment, including:
Limited Scalability and Agility: The existing infrastructure was unable to dynamically scale in response to fluctuating workloads, resulting in performance constraints during peak usage periods.
High Operational and Infrastructure Costs: Rigid pricing structures and the absence of effective cost optimization mechanisms led to increased cloud spend and reduced cost transparency.
Security and Compliance Limitations: The environment lacked advanced security controls, automated compliance monitoring, and centralized visibility, which are critical for regulatory-driven workloads.
Lack of Automation and DevOps Enablement: The absence of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation resulted in manual deployment processes, slower application releases, and higher operational overhead.
Business Continuity and Resilience Gaps: Limited disaster recovery capabilities and lack of cross-region resiliency increased the risk of service disruption during infrastructure failures.
Why Velocis
BSB Edge selected Velocis as its AWS Cloud Managed Services Partner due to Velocis’ proven expertise in AWS cloud architecture, cloud operations, security, and governance. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Velocis conducted a detailed assessment of the customer’s requirements and designed a secure, scalable, and operationally efficient AWS environment aligned with AWS best practices. Velocis’ Cloud MSP team was responsible not only for solution design and migration, but also for establishing a robust Cloud Operations model.
Velocis proposed a comprehensive AWS-based solution focused on operational excellence, security, high availability, and cost optimization, leveraging the following AWS services:
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to provide scalable and resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing us to adjust resources based on demand for cost efficiency and performance optimization. Integrated with AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Auto Scaling Group (ASG), it ensures high availability and scalability by distributing traffic across multiple servers, and seamless scalability to enhance the user experience.
Amazon RDS (MySQL) to host the relational database layer in private subnets, configured with cross-region replication to enhance availability, performance, and data durability.
AWS native tools like CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, to establish a robust CI/CD pipeline, automating deployment processes to reduce manual efforts and minimise downtime. This setup offers heightened visibility into resources and infrastructure, facilitating efficient management and monitoring.
AWS Site-to-Site VPN to establish secure connectivity between the BSB Edge corporate office and the AWS environment, enabling secure access for administrators and seamless integration with on-premises systems.
Amazon Route 53 to provide global DNS resolution, allowing users to access web applications using the domain name. Route 53 is used to route incoming traffic based upon the recodes configured in the bsbedge.com Hosted Zone.
AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) to provide an essential layer of protection for web applications against common web exploits and attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP floods. Also, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provide simple and cost-effective way to manage SSL/TLS certificates for domain names.
AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for operational automation, secure instance access, patch management, and configuration management.
A combination of AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Guard Duty to robust security of AWS environment. This combination enables proactive identification of vulnerabilities, protection of sensitive data, threat detection, and efficient management of security alerts and compliance.
A combination of Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Security Hub to bolster governance and gain comprehensive visibility into its AWS infrastructure and web applications.
Solution Description
The AWS environment for BSB Edge was deployed in the Mumbai Region using a multi–Availability Zone architecture to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience. Internet-facing components such as the Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Bastion servers are hosted in public subnets, while application servers, databases, and backend services are securely deployed in private subnets. Application workloads run on Amazon EC2, fronted by ALB and managed through Auto Scaling Groups, enabling dynamic scaling based on traffic and CPU utilization to maintain consistent performance while optimizing costs.
The database layer is built on Amazon RDS (MySQL), deployed in private subnets and configured with read replicas and cross-region replication to enhance performance, availability, and data durability. A CI/CD pipeline using AWS native DevOps services automates code build, and deployment processes, significantly reducing manual effort, deployment risks, and release timelines. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (EDR) ensures rapid recovery of workloads with minimal RTO and RPO, strengthening overall business continuity.
Architectural Diagram [HLD]
Results and Benefits
The AWS Cloud Solution delivered by Velocis resulted in measurable business and operational improvements for BSB Edge:
Improved Availability and Resilience: The implementation of a multi-AZ architecture, automated health checks, and failover mechanisms improved application availability to 99%, while reducing unplanned downtime by over 90% compared to the previous Cloud4C environment.
Operational Efficiency and Faster Deployments: Automated CI/CD pipelines and the use of AWS Systems Manager reduced manual deployment and maintenance activities, while new deployment failures were reduced significantly , enabling faster and more reliable application releases.
Enhanced Security and Compliance Posture: The adoption of layered security controls, continuous monitoring, and centralized logging significantly strengthened security governance. Continuous threat detection and compliance monitoring improved security visibility by 70%+, supporting regulatory and audit readiness.
Optimized Cloud Costs: Right-sizing of compute resources, combined with Auto Scaling, led to a reduction in idle capacity and optimized infrastructure utilization, resulting in 25–30% cost savings on monthly cloud infrastructure spend.
Proactive Managed Cloud Operations: Velocis, as a Managed Services Provider, Provided continuous 24×7 cloud operations support, including monitoring, incident management, patching, and optimization, leading to faster incident response times and improved overall service stability.
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