KO TECHNOLOGIES
AWS CLOUD & DEVOPS SERVICES
For Akrivia Health, a clinical data and research platform specializing in integrating and analyzing sensitive patient data, the objective was to build a highly secure, compliant, and scalable environment on AWS. KO Technologies delivered a comprehensive AWS Cloud & DevOps Services solution, designing a robust, modern platform centered on a secure data lake and a containerized microservices architecture. Leveraging HashiCorp Terraform and AWS EKS, the solution ensured end-to-end automation, strict security controls, and full-stack observability with Datadog, creating a world-class foundation for clinical research and data innovation.
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The Client
Akrivia Health provides cutting-edge software and data platforms to accelerate clinical research and integrate disparate patient data sources for the healthcare and life sciences sector. The company’s technology is critical for advancing medical understanding and improving patient outcomes.
Name
Akrivia Health
Turnover
£3 million per annum
Location
United Kingdom
Challenges
- Compliance & Security: The need for a platform that meets stringent healthcare compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) for sensitive clinical data.
- Data Scalability: Building a scalable data lake and processing architecture to ingest and analyze massive volumes of patient data efficiently.
- Platform Modernisation: Transitioning from an on-premise environment to a secure, cloud-native architecture capable of hosting microservices and high-performance computing workloads.
- Continuous Deployment: Establishing CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, compliant, and zero-downtime updates to the research platform.
Solutions
- Secure Data Lake on AWS
Implemented a secure and scalable S3-based Data Lake solution using AWS Lake Formation, enforcing fine-grained access control for clinical data.
- Container Platform on EKS
Deployed a fully automated microservices platform using Terraform and Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for high availability and elastic scalability.
- Security Posture
Strengthened security with a dedicated AWS WAF deployment and integrated HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management.
- Full-Stack Observability
Implemented Datadog for end-to-end monitoring, covering application performance, infrastructure health, and security event correlation.
Results
Speed to innovations is vastly reduced by delivering a modern migration to AWS.
Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques.
Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.
Enhance Observability with Datadog – increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.
Tools Used
- AWS
- EKS
- S3
- LAKE
- PACKER
- FORMATION
- WAF
- DATADOG
- TERRAFORM
- TERRAGRUNT
- VAULT
- GITHUB
- PYTHON
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