Executive Summary

Cygnonex is an innovative IT services, solutions, and digital marketing company that develops applications for business-leading enterprises, facilitating business transformation. As part of their modernization and security needs, Cygnonex is migrating all their existing applications to the AWS Cloud. In collaboration with Aabasoft, a comprehensive solution was implemented, focusing on AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) to provide scalable, high-performance storage for the client’s applications. This is complemented by AWS WAF to ensure secure access and AWS ALB and SSL to enhance traffic management and encryption. The core of this solution focuses on EBS, which significantly enhances storage reliability, scalability, and performance for Cygnonex's critical workloads.

About Customer

Cygnonex Innovation Pvt Ltd is a pioneering company providing tailored solutions that blend user-centric design with scalability. Cygnonex specializes in software solutions tailored to meet specific industry requirements. Their wide range of innovative products is meticulously crafted to streamline business operations, driving efficiency for clients across the globe.

Customer Challenges

Cygnonex faced several challenges in managing, securing, and scaling their cloud environments during application migration to AWS. The primary concerns were:

• Storage Scalability: Handling growing data volumes without compromising performance.
• Data Loss: Protecting data integrity and ensuring reliable backups and recovery options.
• Access and Data Breaches: Securing sensitive data from unauthorized access and breaches.
• Configuration Issues: Avoiding incorrect storage configurations that lead to vulnerabilities.
• Shared Responsibility Model: Understanding the shared responsibility model of AWS for security and management of storage and services.
• Network Security: Ensuring secure access to stored data through secure network practices.
• Application Security: Safeguarding hosted applications and data interactions from vulnerabilities.

To overcome these challenges, Cygnonex sought a solution that would provide high performance scalable, and secure storage for its applications while ensuring seamless integration with security tools to protect against evolving threats.

Solution Implementation Details

Aabasoft’s approach focused heavily on utilizing AWS EBS for optimal storage performance, ensuring that Cygnonex’s growing storage requirements were met without sacrificing reliability or efficiency. To further secure the environment, AWS WAF and ALB were used.

AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS):

• Primary Storage Solution: EBS was employed to provide durable, high-performance block storage for Cygnonex's applications. The flexibility and scalability of EBS were essential in accommodating Cygnonex’s increasing storage needs.
• Data Backup and Snapshots: EBS snapshots ensured that data could be consistently backed up, enabling fast recovery in case of accidental deletions, corruption, or failures. The ease of snapshot management allowed Cygnonex to automate backup processes, ensuring uninterrupted data protection.
• Scalability: EBS allowed the infrastructure to scale without disrupting performance, maintaining high throughput for both Dev and Prod environments. Its ability to easily increase volume size and adjust performance characteristics was crucial for supporting application growth.
• Performance: By using provisioned IOPS (IO1) volumes for critical workloads, EBS ensured low-latency performance, particularly for applications that required fast access to storage.
• Cost-Effectiveness: Cygnonex leveraged different EBS volume types, such as general-purpose SSDs (GP3) for everyday workloads and provisioned IOPS (IO1) for high-demand applications, optimizing both performance and cost.

AWS WAF:

• WAF was configured to protect both the Dev and Prod environments from common web exploits, ensuring secure and reliable access to the web applications. Although important, WAF's role was primarily to shield Cygnonex’s applications from external threats, complementing the robust security offered by EBS in the backend.

Application Load Balancer (ALB) and AWS SSL:

• ALB was integrated to manage traffic distribution and ensure secure communication between the client and the server. SSL was used to encrypt traffic, adding a security layer that worked alongside EBS for storage-related transactions.

Results and Benefits

The heavy reliance on AWS EBS for storage brought multiple benefits to Cygnonex:

• Enhanced Storage Performance: EBS's provisioned IOPS provided consistent, low-latency performance for the most demanding workloads.
• Scalability: As Cygnonex’s storage needs grew, EBS volumes were easily scaled to meet the demand without downtime or performance degradation.
• Reliable Data Backup and Recovery: EBS snapshots allowed Cygnonex to implement robust backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity.
• Cost-Efficiency: By selecting appropriate volume types for each workload, Cygnonex optimized both performance and costs.
• Security: AWS WAF and SSL added additional security layers, protecting web-facing applications from external threats.
• Optimized Infrastructure: ALB and SSL contributed to enhanced application performance and secure communication.

Conclusion

The migration of Cygnonex's applications to AWS, with a strong focus on AWS EBS, ensured a scalable, high-performance storage solution. In combination with security tools like AWS WAF, ALB, and SSL, Cygnonex is now equipped with a reliable and secure cloud infrastructure that can grow with its business. By partnering with Aabasoft Technologies, Cygnonex successfully addressed its storage and security challenges, positioning itself for future growth and operational excellence.