Ancrew Empowers A HealthTech with Secure and Compliant Cloud Infrastructure
About the Client:
Our Client is a rapidly growing digital health platform that brings patients, healthcare professionals, and labs together in a seamless and secure digital environment. The platform supports online consultations, electronic health record (EHR) management, integration of lab reports, and prescription delivery. Our Client is committed to making healthcare more accessible, secure, and efficient for all.
Third-Party Solutions:
Apache Kafka, Okta for Identity & Access Management
AWS Services:
VPC, Application Load Balancer, EC2, ECS Fargate, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS for PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, Amazon SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS Backup, AWS Config, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Certificate Manager
Business Need:
Our Client was originally running on a monolithic architecture on a set of EC2 instances. With the growing adoption of users, the requirement for scalability, high availability, and rigid compliance with healthcare data security regulations (HIPAA) became essential. The client wanted to move to a modern, microservices-based architecture on AWS with strong data protection, cost savings, and quicker deployment cycles without disrupting existing healthcare services.
Implementation:
- Ancrew's cloud experts collaborated with Our Client's compliance and engineering groups to architect an AWS-ready HIPAA architecture. The collaboration began with a discovery workshop, proceeding to infrastructure review, and resulting in a rigorously phased move to AWS ECS with Fargate.
- Microservices Segmentation: Our Client segmented key aspects—appointment booking, patient profiles, e-scripts, and invoicing—into autonomous microservices.
- Containerization: Docker containers were spun up for every service keeping portability and optimal resource utilization in mind. ECS with Fargate supported a serverless compute model, minimizing infrastructure management.
- Compliance-Ready Setup: Services were deployed in private subnets spanning availability zones for redundancy. AWS WAF and AWS Shield supported perimeter-level threat mitigation.
- Data Layer Modernization: RDS for PostgreSQL and ElastiCache for Redis managed EHR data and caching, providing high performance and compliance. S3 buckets were encrypted with KMS for storing medical documents and reports.
- Real-Time Messaging: Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS facilitated asynchronous communication among microservices, improving performance and lowering latency.
- Security and Governance: GuardDuty, Inspector, and Amazon Macie were set up to identify threats, conduct vulnerability analysis, and track usage of sensitive data. CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Backup provided robust governance and recovery features.
- CI/CD Enablement: Ancrew used DevOps pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, with automated builds, tests, and deployments, ensuring compliance using IAM roles and encrypted secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
Reaping Rewards:
- Ancrew provided a compliant, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure that enabled Our Client to scale securely in accordance with regulations.
- Better Uptime & Resilience: Multi-region deployments provided fault tolerance and continuous access to healthcare services.
- Better Security Posture: End-to-end encryption, role-based access control, and threat detection in real-time created an environment aligned with HIPAA.
- Operational Efficiency: ECS on Fargate and managed services such as RDS and ElastiCache minimized system maintenance, allowing the engineering team to be more productive in innovation.
- Cost Optimization: The migration of Windows to Linux-based container workloads helped Our Client save up to USD 3400/month by avoiding licensing overhead.
- Faster Innovation: Automated pipelines and modular architecture cut down release cycles by 40%, allowing for quicker deployment of new features such as telehealth and multilingual support.
Key Benefits:
- Regulatory Compliance (HIPAA-ready infrastructure)
- Increased Governance and Security
- Improved Resilience and Scalability
- Lowered Operational Overhead
- Average Monthly AWS Cost Savings of USD 3800
- Enhanced Developer Productivity