Case Study
nClouds AWS Case Study | Avolio
Swapcard is an in-person and virtual events platform that combines everything needed for successful event management in one place. Swapcard acquired Avolio in 2021. Bryan Philips is the director of registration product for Swapcard.
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CHALLENGE
Avolio was on the verge of being acquired by Swapcard. The small company of 10 people would suddenly be a company of over 200 with international reach. Avolio needed an AWS partner to help it do the following:
- Facilitate resource growth
- Add a European data center and ensure GDPR compliance
- Set up autoscaling
- Help Avolio/Swapcard ensure SOC compliance at the European data center
- Optimize its use of AWS to reduce unnecessary costs
Avolio began searching for a partner that could help it understand and implement AWS architecture best practices and then provide an ongoing managed solution to ensure future scalability. That search led Avolio to nClouds (formerly Cloudnexa).
“We started with a really simple infrastructure that we’d gone from hosting our own servers to the Cloud on our own. There were things that we were doing that no longer made sense in a Cloud environment. We wanted a partner whose knowledge could help us improve, to offer a better service and lower our costs.”
THE SOLUTION
nClouds kicked off the relationship with a Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR). This review identifies risks and helps Avolio generate specific action items to optimize workloads and uncover opportunities as it scales.
Then nClouds began executing on improvements as part of its ongoing AWS Managed Solution, which includes a fully managed cloud architect manager, security, DevOps, and support. As part of the solution, nClouds helped Avolio autoscale its complicated multi-instance SaaS application and remove unused components to optimize AWS costs.
And, when Avolio was acquired by Swapcard, having nClouds in place to manage the AWS infrastructure made the merger easier: It didn’t have to worry about the backend infrastructure of its products, because it was already managed by nClouds.
Once the merger was completed, nClouds helped expand the AWS infrastructure and ensure that it complied with GDPR.
“We were able to really take advantage of [nClouds’] broad knowledge of AWS to do only what we needed to, instead of throwing everything at the application to see what worked best.”
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