PartyLite is a top global candle eCommerce company in 21 countries. PartyLite’s web applications must meet strict requirements for uptime, management functionality, and PCI compliance that their existing hosting service provider simply could not meet. With Logicworks’ support, PartyLite migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and now delivers their e-commerce application in compliance with PCI regulations without sacrificing global scalability and high-availability.
Challenges
- Previous MSP suddenly ceased operations, leaving internal IT staff to handle designing, implementation, and monitoring of AWS environment
- Desire to reduce downtime associated with sudden spikes in traffic at the end of each month and during the holiday shopping season
- Need to reduce latency associated with the distance between the production environment located in Northern Virginia and endusers located primarily in Europe
- Maintain PCI-DSS compliance
Solutions
- AWS Migration Service: Completed migration from existing hosting provider to AWS in just 30 days
- Managed AWS Service: 24x7x365 engineering support for monitoring, maintenance, alerts, and engineering reviews
- Implemented PCI best practices and security tools to keep AWS environment secure and compliant
- Eliminated single points of failure by distributing right-sized resources across availability zones, while implementing advanced DevOps and Auto Scaling to increase application availability
Results
Through Logicworks’ expertise in building and managing PCI compliant AWS infrastructure, PartyLite delivers its eCommerce application to tens of thousands of independent consultants who use the online consultant and customer portal to log sales and place orders. They migrated in 30 days and have an environment that exceeds PCI compliance regulations, while remaining scalable and highly available during predictable and unpredictable spikes in traffic. With Logicworks’ management, the PartyLite team can focus on bettering the business and serving end-users without interruption, ultimately driving profits and cutting IT costs.
“Logicworks is PartyLite’s service provider of choice. They are fair, flexible, technically skilled, and always communicative. From project management, to sales, to technical expertise to the NOC – Logicworks makes my life easier. If all vendors were like Logicworks, my team would have a lot less frustration in their day.”
– Sandra M. Duphily, Director, WW Technology, PartyLite
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