EasyEquities, an innovative South Africa investment platform, began its journey into the Amazon Web Services in 2019. The company sought to implement a robust cloud infrastructure based on best practices and needed a partner to accelerate the journey. EasyEquities consulted Synthesis due to its vast experience of working with AWS and its track record of delivering solutions for blue-chip financial service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n EasyEquities needed to implement an AWS Landing Zone to manage its cloud\nestate but did not know how to do this alone. This can consume a significant\namount of time to implement due to complex architectural, security and cost\nconfiguration choices, all of which require thorough knowledge of AWS when\nhandling multiple accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Synthesis accelerated the EasyEquities journey to cloud by leveraging\nthe AWS Landing Zone implementation to deploy and began to operationalise a\nbusiness workload, as well as enable the EasyEquities\u2019 application teams to\nbecome cloud-ready through co-creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synthesis follow a set of recommended AWS design patterns combined with\nthe industry\u2019s best-practices and enriched through practical implementations in\nthe financial services sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Darryl Govender, Head of Cloud Services at Synthesis, said: \u201cOur\napproach included enabling the EasyEquities team to learn how to manage their\nLanding Zone while accelerating their cloud skills. Our customer now has a\nsolid understanding of their cloud infrastructure. Knowledge transfer is a very\nimportant element to customer success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synthesis also migrated the EasyEquities applications to their new AWS\naccount once the Landing Zone was configured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Synthesis and EasyEquities implemented an optimised platform with\ndefined policy rules (guardrails) that enable teams to easily create new\naccounts and workloads without spending hours configuring features or settings.\nGuardrails eliminate repetitive tasks and provide peace of mind that security\nand other rules are never compromised through misconfiguration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EasyEquities now have a platform that provides governance across their\ncloud infrastructure and is geared for future growth as they migrate more\napplications or develop innovative new products on AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synthesis also provided a well-architected review for EasyEquities, an\nAWS Program that grants US$5,000 in AWS credits for any workload that is\nimproved in accordance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EasyEquities, an innovative South Africa investment platform, began its journey into the Amazon Web Services in 2019. The company sought to implement a robust cloud infrastructure based on best practices and needed a partner to accelerate the journey. EasyEquities consulted Synthesis due to its vast experience of working with AWS and its track record of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":31220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,34,338,182,19,9059,13,262],"tags":[732,619,12192,12193,12191,453,10616],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-finance","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-cloud","category-regional-news","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-aws","tag-aws-landing-zone","tag-darryl-govender","tag-easyequities","tag-south-africa","tag-synthesis"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31327,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions\/31327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}