2-Tier Architecture Deployment

Profeeds

Enterprise Workload Cloud Migration

Zimbabwe's premier integrated agri-business achieves 35% cost savings and accelerated time-to-market through AWS transformation.

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Cost Savings
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Profeeds

Executive Summary

Industry:
Manufacturing
Solution:
2-Tier AWS Architecture

Profeeds was founded in 2007 as a stock feed manufacturing plant, initially producing 150MT of chicken feed per month for a few commercial poultry farmers. Fast-forward to 2023, they are Zimbabwe's best integrated agri-business.

Over the last 15 years, Profeeds have dedicated its focus towards empowering small-scale farmers. With continued research and development, regular state-of-the-art plant upgrades, modern technology and expertise, its acclaimed stock feeding programs are sought after by farmers and commercial growers nationwide.

Agriculture Manufacturing

Problem Statement

Reduce the cost of running Enterprise Workload whilst accelerating the product's time to market

Excessive Operating Costs

High overhead costs of maintaining and operating persistent data centres were impacting profitability and resource allocation.

Long Time-to-Market

Slow product development cycles hindered competitive advantage and ability to meet customer expectations promptly.

Why AWS and Standard Telephones & Cables

AWS provides highly available, scalable, agile and low-cost infrastructure with flexible pricing models that allow quick launch of production, staging and testing environments.

2-Tier Architecture

2-Tier Web Architecture Solution

Application-Database Separation

Windows-based web application separated from SQL database for high resilience.

Auto-Scaling Groups

Dynamic resource scaling based on demand using AWS elastic compute instances.

AWS RDS for SQL

Easy setup, operation and scaling of SQL database without upfront hardware investment.

AWS Backup Service

Fully managed backup targeting all production services via resource groups.

Product Innovation Focus

Business can focus more efforts on product innovation

35% Cost Savings

Huge cost savings through managed services partnership

99.99% Uptime

Highly available systems with little to no downtime

The Results

Teaming with STC, Profeeds now has modern infrastructure with exceptional performance and significant business benefits.

99.99% Uptime

Modern infrastructure delivering maximum reliability and business continuity.

No Infrastructure Management

Eliminated worries about managing infrastructure and Microsoft licenses.

Pay-Only-What-You-Use

Cost-effective AWS pricing models allowing payment only for consumed resources.

Enhanced Scalability & Agility

Improved operational agility and modernization path for increased innovation.

Accelerated Time-to-Market

Met time-to-market requirements by considerable margin, exceeding customer expectations.

3-Month Backup Retention

AWS Backup enabled compliance with backup retention period requirements.