Automated Backup Solution and
File System for AWS Services

About the Customer:

  • Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group is an international investment and
    holding company with diversified interests and investments across Africa, The
    Middle East, Asia and other emerging markets. TGI’s investments focus on driving
    inclusivity and value addition using locally sourced raw materials, state-of-the-art
    manufacturing facilities and a highly skilled workforce to produce world class
    products that are consumed both locally and exported to global markets.
    Across markets, TGI Group owns over a hundred leading brands in Fast Moving
    Consumer Goods, Agricultural Inputs, Industrial Chemicals, Homecare Products ,
    and Pharmaceuticals.

Customer Challenge:

  1. TGI group was looking for a fully-managed AWS Backup service that makes it
    easy to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services, in AWS
    cloud.

  2. So that we can configure backup policies and monitor activity for your AWS
    resources in one place.

  3. We have recommended implementing AWS Backup service to meet customer
    expectations.

  4. Customers are also looking for durable storage solutions where they can
    store their log reports, and cloud watch logs.

  5. Customers are looking for shared file storage for use with their servers in the
    AWS Cloud . AS SAP applications require shared file access so that he can use
    the File system for reliable file storage delivering high aggregate throughput.

Partner Solution

  1. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backing up of data across AWS services. With AWS Backup, we can create backup policies called backup plans. We used these plans to define backup requirements, such as how frequently to back up your data and how long to retain those backups.

  2. We prepared AWS Backup jobs to take daily backup snapshot based.

  3. We are retaining the backed up snapshots for 7 days via life cycle management policy.

  4. We are using AWS Cloudformation to create the infrastructure in AWS. Cloud formations are stored in AWS S3.

  5. Access to AWS S3 buckets is provided by creating respective IAM user and bucket policy for respective S3 bucket to allow the access to this bucket from this user.

  6. We have created Backup plans composed of one or more backup rules and then setting The backup frequency determines how often AWS Backup creates a snapshot backup.

  7. We also created Backup windows consisting of the time that the backup window begins and the duration of the window in hours. Backup jobs are started within this window.

  8. Defined the lifecycle when a backup is transitioned to cold storage and when it expires. AWS Backup transitions and expires backups automatically according to the lifecycle that you define.

  9. Configured a backup vault is a container to organize your backups in. Backups created by a backup rule are organized in the backup vault that you specify in the backup rule.

  10. So that we can create a full VM as per RPO & RTO policy from the last backed up AMI and with Cloudformation.

  11. An Amazon EFS is elastic. That means its storage capacity can be automatically scaled up (add more storage) or scaled down (shrink storage capacity) as folders and files are added
    to or removed from the system.

  12. AWS EFS is a shared file system to store the backup files for all SUSE DB servers across subnets.

Architecture

Results and Benefits

  • Data is protected as backups with 99.999999999% data durability. Copies of all data uploaded to Amazon S3 are created and stored across at least three devices in a single
    AWS Region. Even when following best practices, on-premises capabilities cannot match AWS’ durability due to our global scale and security.

  • Customers can Scale up backup resources in minutes as data requirements change . With AWS, no longer need to wait weeks-to-months to procure tapes, disks, and other
    IT resources to increase your storage infrastructure. This ability to scale on demand can improve operational flexibility, innovation, and business agility.

  • Spend efficiently with pay-as-you-go pricing, cost-management tools , data lifecycle policies and S3 Storage Classes. With these capabilities, customers can cost-effectively
    protect data in the cloud without sacrificing performance. Sending backups to AWS can be the first step in reducing total cost of ownership and your data center footprint.

  • Customer can Manage access management, detect irregular activity, encrypt data, and perform audits with AWS Security services. AWS also maintains compliance programs
    to help you meet all of your regulatory requirements.

  • Customer’s latency issue has been addressed. Amazon EFS’s distributed nature enables high levels of availability, durability, and scalability. This distributed architecture
    results in a small latency overhead for each file operation. Due to this per-operation latency, overall throughput generally increases as the average I/O size increases, since
    the overhead is amortized over a larger amount of data.

  • Customers can scale in or scale out the storage as per his requirement. One of the primary benefits of using Amazon EFS is its ability to scale automatically as your storage
    needs change. EFS is designed to scale up and down seamlessly, allowing you to store and access an unlimited amount of data without worrying about capacity planning.
    This is especially useful for businesses that experience fluctuating storage needs or that have data-intensive applications.

  • Cost effective storage solution has been addressed with AWS EFS. Amazon EFS is a pay-as-you-go service, meaning that you only pay for the storage you use. There are
    no upfront costs or long-term commitments, making it an affordable and flexible option for businesses of all sizes. In addition, Amazon EFS offers a number of pricing
    options to suit your specific needs, including the ability to choose between standard and infrequent access storage tiers.

About the Partner

  • Team Computers is a bridge between business needs and the world of IT solutions. We see ourselves as trusted solutions partner. We understand your needs, Identify
    Integrate-Support High quality, affordable IT Solutions in Hardware, Software, Services, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud with Speed, Flexibility and an attitude of Sewa.

  • Founded in 1987 by Ranjan Chopra, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, it has emerged as a leading IT Infrastructure and Information Solution Provider in the last three decades.
    With a turnover of 1400+ Cr, having 25+ offices across India and 3000+ members, we have served 2500+ customers over a span of 33+ years.