Customer Overview

The Aberdeen Marina Club (AMC), established in 1984, is an exclusive, invitation-only private club in Hong Kong renowned for its luxury facilities and exceptional member experience. Catering to discerning members and their families, AMC offers a wide range of amenities including fine dining, swimming pools, tennis courts, a modern fitness center, and elegant venues for banquets and private events.

As a premier lifestyle destination, AMC is committed to delivering seamless and high-quality service experiences across all its operations — from event management to member engagement — supported by reliable and efficient IT infrastructure.

Business Challenge

AMC’s on-premise infrastructure had become increasingly difficult to maintain as service demands and digital workloads expanded. The environment lacked the scalability, resilience, and centralized visibility required to support continuous operations and data-driven management.

Key challenges included:

• Aging infrastructure that limited scalability and introduced performance bottlenecks during peak usage periods.

• Inefficient backup and recovery processes that increased operational risk.

• Security and access control gaps due to limited role-based management capabilities.

• Lack of centralized monitoring, resulting in reactive rather than proactive system management.

AMC sought to modernize its IT environment by migrating to the AWS Cloud to ensure high availability, operational efficiency, and long-term scalability.

AWS Solution

Materia Logic designed and implemented a comprehensive end-to-end AWS migration and modernization strategy tailored to AMC’s business and operational requirements.

The new architecture leveraged AWS-native services to deliver a highly available, secure, and cost-efficient environment:

• Compute: Amazon EC2 instances for reliable and scalable compute workloads.

• Storage: Amazon S3, EFS and Glacier

• Database: Amazon RDS for managed database hosting with automated backups.

• Security Implementation: Encryption and role-based controls

• Monitoring and Operations: Amazon CloudWatch for centralized monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility.

This AWS architecture was designed around performance, resilience, and compliance, ensuring that AMC’s systems could scale to meet future service demands.

Implementation Details

• Comprehensive Architecture Design - Conducted a full assessment of AMC’s on-premise infrastructure and designed a scalable, high-availability AWS architecture using EC2, RDS, and S3 to meet operational and performance requirements.

• End-to-End Infrastructure Migration - Executed a seamless migration of workloads, databases, and storage systems to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime, validated data integrity, and optimized system performance.

• Data Protection and Backup Strategy - Implemented automated RDS backups to Amazon S3, verified data recovery through simulated restoration, and introduced S3 Glacier for cost-effective long-term archival.

• Security and Access Control Implementation - Enforced IAM-based role-based access control (RBAC) and enabled KMS-managed encryption to strengthen identity security, compliance, and data confidentiality.

• Monitoring, Optimization, and Scalability Planning - Configured centralized CloudWatch dashboards for real-time visibility, established proactive alerting mechanisms, conducted billing and capacity analysis, and implemented lifecycle policies to optimize resource efficiency and future scalability.

Results and Benefits

The collaboration between Materia Logic and The Aberdeen Marina Club (AMC) successfully modernized AMC’s IT infrastructure by migrating from a legacy on-premise setup to a secure, scalable, and cloud-native environment on AWS. This transformation ensures AMC can continue to deliver exceptional member experiences with confidence and operational excellence.

• Scalable and Reliable Operations: Reduce IT infrastructure management cost overhead by 30%.

• Enhanced Resilience: Achieved a 99.99% SLA for data availability and implemented robust disaster recovery strategies and automated backup workflows.

• Operation and Cost Efficiency: Eliminated manual infrastructure and cost management tasks through AWS-native tools and improving IT team productivity while optimizing overall cloud spend.