Customer Overview

SimpleTPA is a third-party administrator specializing in managing health insurance claims and employee benefits. With a growing customer base and the need to process millions of transactions monthly, SimpleTPA sought a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution for cloud data storage and management.

Business Challenge

Working closely with SimpleTPA, we identified several key challenges that needed to be addressed to ensure a seamless transition and long-term operational efficiency:

• Infrastructure Scalability: Managing infrastructure with growing complexity while being lean and efficient

• Data Scalability: Rapid data growth due to expanding operations demanded a storage solution that could scale dynamically.

• Compliance and Security: As a company handling sensitive personal data, SimpleTPA needed a robust solution meeting stringent compliance standards.

• Disaster Recovery and Infrastructure Resilience: The existing storage infrastructure lacked sufficient redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities, posing risks of data loss and prolonged downtime in the event of failures or disasters.

AWS Solution

Materia Logic partnered with SimpleTPA to design and implement a scalable and compliant storage solution leveraging AWS services. The architecture included:

• Amazon EKS: Using fully managed Kubernetes service to run their applications and ease of management.

• Amazon S3: Used as the primary storage for structured and unstructured data, ensuring scalability and durability.

• AWS Backup: Automated and centralized backup processes across services to ensure data integrity and recoverability.

• AWS Key Management Service (KMS): Provided encryption and key management to secure sensitive data.

• Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication: Enabled disaster recovery by replicating data to a secondary AWS region, ensuring business continuity in case of outages.

Implementation Details

To ensure a smooth and efficient transition to the cloud, Materia Logic executed the project in three strategic phases. This approach encompassed a thorough assessment and design, a carefully managed migration, and the implementation of automation to enhance long-term reliability and compliance:

• Assessment and Design: Materia Logic conducted a detailed assessment of SimpleTPA’s data requirements and regulatory obligations. A hybrid architecture was designed to seamlessly migrate existing workloads to AWS.

• Migration: Materia Logic worked closely with SimpleTPA's infrastructure team to migrate and integrate their data with the cloud infrastructure.

• Operations and Automation: In partnership with SimpleTPA, Materia Logic has streamlined automation by implementing lifecycle policies, S3 compliance, and routine reviews to maintain 24/7 infrastructure reliability

Results and Benefits

The successful implementation of Materia Logic’s cloud strategy enabled SimpleTPA to enhance scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency. By optimizing infrastructure and automation, SimpleTPA now seamlessly manages growing data demands while maintaining high availability and reducing manual IT overhead.

• Scalability: Seamless handling of 50% annual data growth without performance degradation.

• Enhanced Resilience: Achieved a 99.99% SLA for data availability and implemented robust disaster recovery with cross-region replication.

• Operational Efficiency: Eliminated manual storage management, freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.

Conclusion

SimpleTPA’s migration to AWS storage solutions has revolutionized its data management practices. By leveraging AWS services and Materia Logic’s expertise, SimpleTPA is now better equipped to scale, secure its data, and ensure uninterrupted operations even in adverse scenarios.