Company summary
The Argentine Chamber of Commerce and Services (CAC) is comprised of local and sectoral organizations with merchants and commerce companies. They are part of the celebrated Group of Eight, which brings together the eight most powerful employer organizations in the country: Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA), Unión Industrial Argentina (UIA), Cámara Argentina de Comercio (CAC), Cámara Argentina de la Construcción (CAMARCO), Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires (BCBA), Asociación de Bancos Privados de Capital Argentino (formerly ADEBA), and the Asociación de Bancos de la República Argentina (ABRA). The CAC’s work is an essential component to Argentina’s regulatory business procedures. It holds events related to business concerns, national and international conferences and assemblies, and constitution-building for various business associations.
The Challenge
Outdated, brittle architecture hinders growth
While the CAC has a long-rooted history with Argentinian business, it struggled with obsolete infrastructure. CAC had dedicated servers in a virtualized local datacenter, which posed significant limitations in projecting growth and ensuring high availability. This impeded its ability to provide quality service to its members. The outdated infrastructure also had to adjust to the elastic demand of Argentine commerce as the organization grew, and this proved almost impossible with the older framework and technologies.
Additionally, CAC sought a robust disaster recovery plan and a solution to its connectivity and latency issues.
The Solution
Transforming to a modern AWS cloud
CloudHesive’s team of engineers designed a more efficient infrastructure in compliance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which allowed them to migrate the workloads to a new resilient and more accommodating infrastructure. Using AWS Application Migration Service, CloudHesive minimized time-intensive, manual migration processes by automating the conversion of CAC’s source servers to run natively on AWS.
For CAC’s most basic needs, CloudHesive onboarded Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a scalable relational database service optimized for total cost of ownership, for data access.
For networking, CloudHesive implemented Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service, which enabled CAC to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency. CloudHesive also added Amazon FSx, a file server that enabled CAC to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud.
To connect CAC’s on-premises networks and its new Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) through a central hub, CloudHesive deployed AWS Transit Gateway (Transit Gateway). Transit Gateway acts as a highly scalable cloud router through which all Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections pass.
The benefits
Cloud transformation improves operational performance by 80%
The transformation from a fully on-premises infrastructure to the AWS cloud provided immediate scalability. In addition to gaining a highly available and scalable infrastructure, CAC gained a robust disaster recovery plan to ensure continuity in the event of an outage.
Within a month, operational performance increased by 80%. With the scalability and operational visibility provided by the AWS cloud, it was able to optimize its investment and control costs while scaling up and down as needed.
Services that drive success
Devops
- Deployment of Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon Relational Database Service for data
- Deployed Amazon Route 53 for networking and Amazon FSx as a file server
- Deployment of AWS Transit Gateway to connect on-premises networks to Amazon VPCs
Customer benefit summary
- Operational efficiency increased by 80%
- Robust disaster recovery plan
- Gained scalable and highly available infrastructure
AWS technologies used
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Amazon FSx
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Virtual Private Network
- VPN Gateway
- AWS Transit Gateway
- AWS Application Migration Service
Industry
Non-governmental organization
Segment
Private
Region
LATAM
