How Telglobal’s Managed Services Team helped streamline operations and cut costs for an NBFC client.

The Client

A leading Non Banking Finance Company (NBFC) specializing in providing business loans for companies across India. The company has built a robust reputation as a tech-driven lending company specializing in providing unsecured loans to smaller businesses located in most of India’s metro cities, such as Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. The client uses technologies that combine new payment datasets, traditional scoring, dynamic repayment and automated collections to identify creditworthy businesses. The loans are mostly repaid through future card receivables, e-commerce sales, etc. Almost 50% of the loans are below INR one million each and more than three quarters of all loans are provided to proprietorship and partnership companies.

 

The Need:

The client runs its TPA production workloads in two discrete environments, comprising a) its on-premises infrastructure, which consists of a combination of Linux and Windows environments, and b) AWS cloud.

They needed to access and manage their infrastructure landscape with respect to application efficiency, scalability, maintenance, and cost. And enable on-demand scaling without need for manual efforts.

 

The Solution:

Managed Services offering covering the following

Deployments, rollbacks and database replications of apps

Continuous cost optimization on the basis of cost optimization reports

Optimizing their hybrid model by connecting AWS to on-premises infrastructure using site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Regular backups using AWS lifecycle manager and AWS Backup to take Amazon Management of RDS instances, including provision of Multi AZ options and data dumps to ensure no data loss

Machine Images (AMI) and Snapshots with a retention period of 15 days and seven days, respectively

Security certifications—ACP and GoDaddy, with timely renewal of certificates

Continuous data replication and disaster recovery using Cloud Endure

Patch management for database instances

Monitoring of all URLs

Regular fortnightly infrastructure reports showing improvements undertaken to ensure health of AWS accounts

Identity & Access Management (IAM) in line with AWS best practices

Application of classic and application load balancer—as per requirement

 

AWS Services Stack

ALB	EBS	NAT Gateway
Amplify.	EC2	RDS
API Gateway	ECS Clusters	Redshift
AWS Backup	ElastiCache	Route53
Cloud Map	FSx	S3
CloudFront	Guard Duty	Secret Manager
CloudTrail	IAM	Security Groups
CloudWatch	Key Management Service	Site-to-Site VPN
CloudWatch Events	Kinesis FireHose	SNS
Code Pipeline	Lambda	VPC
		WAF

 

Outcomes

Teleglobal’s cost optimization solutions enables savings of up to USD5,000/-

Performance boost in applications through use of patch management

Improved infrastructure management with AWS operating model

Avoidance of data loss through Cloud Endure, which provided continuous data replication and DR.