From HostingRaja to AWS: Building a Secure, Scalable Cloud Foundation for Geospatial Innovation

About Customer:

GiSy Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an India-based geospatial technology company specializing in advanced GIS and 3D visualization solutions. It transforms complex location-based data into scalable, high-performance web applications for open-access mapping, commercial intelligence, environmental monitoring, and compliance. Its expertise includes Web GIS development, terrain and infrastructure visualization, large-scale geospatial data processing, and GIS infrastructure deployment using open-source technologies such as PostGIS and GeoServer.

Industry:

IT- ITeS

Offering:

Migration, Modernization

Business Challenges:

1. GiSy’s applications and databases ran on HostingRaja, a legacy hosting environment that struggled to keep pace with the company’s expanding geospatial workloads. As usage grew, the platform’s limited scalability and resilience made it increasingly difficult to apply modern cloud best practices, putting future growth at risk.
2. Moving live production applications and databases to a new platform carried real risk for GiSy – any gap in planning, connectivity, or replication could mean downtime or data loss, directly impacting customers who depend on continuous access to geospatial services.
3. Without dedicated network segmentation, GiSy had no clear separation between its production and staging environments – a gap that raised the risk of unintended cross-environment impact and could disrupt live services during testing or updates.
4. GiSy’s existing setup had no mechanism to automatically scale compute or application resources in response to demand, creating a ceiling that limited how much the business and its user base could grow.
5. As a custodian of sensitive geospatial and location-based data, GiSy needed stronger security controls — including least-privilege access, encryption at rest, and continuous threat monitoring — to protect its environment from evolving risks.
6. GiSy lacked centralized monitoring, alerting, and audit trails, leaving the team unable to proactively catch performance issues or track activity across its environment – a gap that increased operational risk.

Solution Implemented:

1. Rapyder designed a purpose-built AWS environment in the Mumbai region (ap-south-1), containerizing GiSy’s applications and migrating them onto Amazon EKS with dedicated Production and Staging environments, replacing the legacy setup with a modern, cloud-native foundation.
2. Rapyder used AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate GiSy’s databases to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, performing rigorous connectivity checks and replication validation at every stage to ensure a controlled, low-risk cutover.
3. Rapyder architected independent VPCs for Production and Staging, each with public and private subnets, and layered in Application Load Balancers and Amazon Route 53 for environment-specific, tightly controlled traffic routing.
4. Rapyder configured EKS Cluster Autoscaler and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically scale infrastructure and application pods based on real-time workload, and moved EKS nodes to AWS Graviton instances for stronger price-performance.
5. Rapyder implemented layered security controls, including Security Groups, AWS WAF, and Amazon GuardDuty for network and threat protection, least-privilege IAM roles, and AWS KMS encryption for data stored in Amazon S3.
6. Rapyder deployed Amazon CloudWatch for infrastructure monitoring, custom dashboards, and proactive alarms, paired with AWS CloudTrail for centralized activity tracking and auditing across the entire AWS environment.

Services Used:

• Amazon VPC
• Amazon EKS
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon EC2
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Amazon ECR
• Amazon Route 53
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• AWS Auto Scaling
• AWS IAM
• AWS KMS
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Config

Business Benefits:

1. Resilient, Future-Ready Infrastructure – The business now runs on a cloud-native foundation aligned with AWS best practices, giving it the scalability headroom to support increasing application usage without being held back by legacy constraints.
2. Seamless, Reliable Migration – The move to AWS was completed with zero data loss or service disruption, and database reliability has improved significantly through automated daily and weekly backups along with thorough post-migration validation.
3. Strong Environment Isolation – Production and staging environments are now cleanly separated, with secure, well-managed traffic flow that removes the risk of unintended interference between the two.
4. Elastic, Cost-Efficient Scalability – Infrastructure now scales automatically and elastically with demand, delivering a cost-efficient, future-ready foundation that removes the growth ceiling faced previously.
5. Hardened Security Posture – The environment is now secured end-to-end, with a strengthened security posture and improved data protection that provide confidence in safeguarding sensitive customer and geospatial data.
6. Enhanced Visibility & Governance – Operational visibility and governance have improved significantly, enabling the team to proactively catch issues and maintain a clear, centralized audit trail across the infrastructure.

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