Project overview
An American multinational manufacturing company needed a highly scalable, secure and cost-effective web application that could handle dynamic API-driven functionality with low operational overhead.
Challenges
- Designing a solution capable of handling dynamic API requests with backend business logic
- Ensuring data persistence and reliability
- Managing scalability for both frontend static content and backend APIs
- Optimizing cost while maintaining high performance and security
Our approach
We delivered a fully serverless event-management platform on AWS that handles high traffic loads while maintaining fast response times and data integrity.
Architecture components
- Amazon Route 53 for DNS routing to CloudFront
- Amazon S3 hosts the SPA frontend (HTML/CSS/JS)
- AWS CloudFront delivers static and dynamic content from edge locations with SSL termination
- Amazon API Gateway handles HTTP requests and routes to Lambda
- AWS Lambda processes backend business logic with least-privilege IAM
- Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) for durable, scalable data storage
- AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing across the stack
Outcomes
- Security: least-privileged Lambda, SSL termination at the edge
- Performance: CloudFront edge caching for static and dynamic content
- Cost: serverless design aligns spend with actual usage
- Troubleshooting: X-Ray distributed tracing for fast root-cause analysis