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Challenge

The development of the eAccounts digital platform by Synthesis began in 2014 and launched in 2015 . Over the years it has expanded into many areas of the organisation ’ s business and operations . Since its launch , the application and its database have been hosted on-premise by one of AFGRI ’ s service providers . However , the on-premise solution was holding AFGRI back from the major innovations it sought to implement . In particular , the on-premise solution was not fit for purpose and created many challenges including :

• The AFGRI team wanted to revolutionise banking for farmers . They did not want to build on the old but create with the new .

They realised that the cloud was the best option for this

• It was time-consuming to keep the old infrastructure at optimum performance . In the cloud this could be delegated

• The team sought the most reliable system . The cloud would allow for easy monitoring , alerting and route cause analysis

• They wanted the bank-grade security that comes with the cloud . A cloud environment provides full logging of the infrastructure estate . If an incident such as a ransomware attack had to occur , the cloud provides a comprehensive view that no data was lost and that the claim is false

AFGRI sought bank-grade security at a good price and AWS Cloud provided just that . www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO

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