QwikResume Moved From DigitalOcean to AWS, With a Firewall in Front
A firewall in front, a CDN behind it, and faster pages for a global audience.
AWS WAF
In front of the site
CloudFront
CDN caching for faster page loads
Backups
And monitoring on a managed environment
The problem
QwikResume serves curated sample resumes, written by practising human-resources managers, to a high-volume consumer audience. The site ran on a single-provider hosting setup with limited protection against web attacks. Slow page loads hurt search ranking and the visitor's experience.
Before and after
Single-provider hosting
- A single-provider hosting setup
- Limited protection against web attacks
- Slow page loads that hurt search ranking and the visitor's experience
On AWS, protected and cached
- Migrated to AWS with a production-grade layout
- A web application firewall in front of the site
- CDN caching and optimised static assets
- Monitoring and backups in place
What we built
Migration to AWS
From DigitalOcean to AWS, with VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront and Route 53.
Web application firewall
AWS WAF in front of the site blocks common attack patterns.
Faster delivery
CDN caching and optimised delivery of static assets for faster page loads.
Operations
Monitoring and backups on a managed AWS environment.
How a visit is served
Find the site
Route 53 directs a visitor's request to the site.
Filter
The web application firewall in front of the site blocks common attack patterns.
Serve fast
CloudFront serves cached pages and optimised static assets.
Run the site
Behind them, the application runs on EC2 inside a VPC, with RDS and S3 for data and storage, monitored and backed up.
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