Company Overview
- Leading US-based retail firm
- $46B in revenue
Tech Overview
- 200m+ Customers
- 12k+ Transactions per second
- 10+ Peta bytes - Customer Interactions
Business & Technical Challenges
- Share sensitive data securely with external vendors and partners
- Legacy platform was slow, expensive to maintain, faced frequent P1 errors and significantly hampered innovation
- Data storage architecture was rigid and non-scalable
- Data pipes were insecure and unreliable
- Offline, batch data integrations were built using different, legacy platforms
- Conducted a comprehensive review and developed an enterprise architecture using AWS components
- Leveraged SFTP from AWS Transfer Family as a fully managed service to ensure secure data transfer across external enterprises
- Augmented SFTP endpoints with AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS ShieldAdvanced, following a Defense in Depth strategy to protect against DDoS and other threats
- Leveraged AWS Lambda serverless mode to leverage existing middle-ware code where possible
- Established a DevOps model and automated CICD infrastructure to accelerate their digital transformation and innovation
- Significant improvement in enterprise-wide security posture
- Automated security checks and adherence to AWS best practices accelerate time-to-market
- Enabled partner subscription capabilities
- Enabled partner subscription capabilities
- Over 10% improvement in partner marketing spend
- Streamlined CICD process
- Reduced time on security operations
- Automated new partner signup and subscription
