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AWS Cloud Optimization & Security Enhancement
Healthcare Tech Company Cuts AWS Costs 52% While Achieving SOC 2 Compliance
Cloud Security & Compliance Implementation
E-Commerce Company Achieves PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliance and Prevents $500K+ in Fines
DevOps Transformation & Automation
FinTech Startup Achieves 1,200% Increase in Deployment Frequency with Zero-Downtime Releases
!The Challenge
A rapidly growing healthcare technology company faced escalating AWS costs (180% YoY increase to $45K/month), failed SOC 2 Type II audit with 127 critical security vulnerabilities, poor application performance (8+ second response times), and risk of HIPAA violations with PHI data. They were at risk of losing major enterprise clients and facing substantial compliance fines.
+Our Solution
We conducted an AWS Well-Architected Review and implemented strategic optimization: eliminated unused resources, migrated to serverless architecture (EC2 to ECS Fargate), implemented S3 lifecycle policies, purchased Reserved Instances, enabled security monitoring (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config), deployed multi-AZ architecture with network segmentation, and established IAM least-privilege access with MFA enforcement.
✓The Results
Monthly AWS costs reduced from $45,000 to $21,400 (52% reduction). Critical security findings resolved from 127 to 0. Application response time improved from 8.2 seconds to 1.2 seconds (85% faster). System uptime increased from 97.3% to 99.95%. Successfully achieved SOC 2 Type II certification.
Key Metrics
Business Impact
Our AWS infrastructure was out of control. Costs spiraling, security issues mounting, and our SOC 2 audit failing. The team fixed our immediate problems and changed how we think about cloud infrastructure. We're now compliant, our costs are half what they were, and response times dropped from 8 seconds to 1.2 seconds. This engagement paid for itself in the first month.
CTO, Healthcare Technology Company
!The Challenge
A rapidly growing e-commerce company ($180M annual transactions) failed their PCI-DSS compliance audit with 793 security findings (89 critical, 158 high-risk), including publicly accessible S3 buckets with customer data, unencrypted databases storing cardholder information, data breach incident, no network segmentation, and blocked $8M in enterprise sales requiring SOC 2 certification. They faced potential fines of $500K+ and risk of losing their merchant account.
+Our Solution
We implemented a full security overhaul: disabled root account access and enforced MFA, secured all S3 buckets and enabled encryption, implemented AWS Organizations with multi-account strategy, deployed AWS SSO with RBAC, created separate PCI-compliant CDE, implemented network segmentation with 3-tier architecture, deployed AWS WAF, Network Firewall, and GuardDuty, implemented KMS encryption with customer-managed keys, deployed tokenization for payment data, and passed QSA audit for PCI-DSS Level 1.
✓The Results
Achieved full PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance. Security findings reduced from 793 to 0 critical findings. Successfully passed SOC 2 Type II audit. Prevented $500K+ in potential fines. Unblocked $8M in enterprise sales. Eliminated data breach risk through comprehensive security controls.
Key Metrics
Business Impact
We were days away from losing our ability to process credit cards. The security transformation saved our business and positioned us for enterprise growth. We went from failing audits to passing with zero critical findings. The $8M in enterprise deals we can now pursue will change our trajectory.
CEO, E-Commerce Company
!The Challenge
A fast-growing fintech startup faced slow software delivery with 4+ hour manual deployments requiring 3 engineers at 2 AM, 40% failure rate, only 2 deployments per week possible, 12 production incidents per month (6.2-hour average resolution), and 40% developer turnover (2x industry average). Developers spent 40% of their time on operations instead of features.
+Our Solution
We implemented comprehensive DevOps transformation: migrated to Git with protected branches, built automated CI pipeline with testing and security scanning, implemented blue-green deployment for zero-downtime releases, converted all infrastructure to Terraform, enabled environment provisioning in 15 minutes vs 2-3 days, implemented Datadog APM for full tracing, set up automated alerting and incident response, and trained team on modern CI/CD workflows.
✓The Results
Deployment duration reduced from 4 hours to 8 minutes (97% faster). Deployment frequency increased from 2/week to 25/week (1,150% increase). Deployment success rate improved from 60% to 98%. Production incidents reduced from 12/month to 0.7/month (94% reduction). Mean time to resolution improved from 6.2 hours to 22 minutes (94% faster). Developer turnover dropped from 40% to 8% (80% reduction).
Key Metrics
Business Impact
Before this transformation, our engineering team was drowning in manual work and firefighting production issues. Deployments were terrifying 4-hour ordeals at 2 AM. Now, we deploy 25 times a week with confidence. Our developers build features instead of babysitting infrastructure. We ship faster than competitors twice our size. Developer turnover dropped from 40% to 8%.
CTO, FinTech Startup
!The Challenge
A fast-growing tech startup hit GitHub Actions artifact storage quota limits. All builds halted for 24 hours. The team's temporary workaround stored build artifacts in GitHub Releases. This violated best practices, risked data loss, and could not scale. They needed a production-grade solution that maintained CI/CD reliability without breaking the bank.
+Our Solution
We spent 4 weeks understanding their business goals, growth trajectory, and infrastructure needs. We migrated artifact storage from GitHub Actions to Cloudflare R2, built custom GitHub Actions for seamless integration, and provisioned infrastructure using Terraform. The result: a production-grade foundation built for scale at $0/month.
✓The Results
Eliminated CI/CD downtime from 24 hours to zero. Reduced monthly artifact costs from quota-blocked to $0 (free tier). Artifact storage limits increased from shared org quota to 10GB per project with unlimited projects. Bandwidth costs reduced to $0 with unlimited egress. Deployment reliability improved from quota-blocked to 99.9% uptime. Time to recovery improved from 24+ hours to under 5 minutes (99% faster).
Key Metrics
Business Impact
We were dead in the water when GitHub quota limits hit us. Almost a full day without deployments. The team was desperate, so we hacked together a solution using GitHub Releases to keep moving. We knew it was terrible, but we had no choice. What impressed us about ZSoftly was they didn't slap on a band-aid fix. They took the time to understand our business goals, our growth trajectory, and where we wanted to be in 12 months. Over 4 weeks, they transformed our CI/CD from a liability into a competitive advantage. Now we have unlimited artifact storage, it costs us nothing, our pipeline is faster and more reliable than ever, and everything is infrastructure-as-code. They set us up with production-grade best practices from day one. That's the kind of foundation a startup needs.
Engineering Lead, Tech Startup
!The Challenge
A growing SaaS company faced a security and operational crisis. They managed 23 bastion hosts across 15 AWS accounts, each requiring constant patching and monitoring. Over 70 servers used SSH key-based access scattered across developer laptops. Worse, 12 internal sites (dev, staging, tools) were publicly accessible with no authentication. Their SOC 2 audit identified 24 security findings, blocking enterprise sales. Monthly bastion costs hit $1,400. The engineering team spent 10+ hours weekly on access management instead of building product.
+Our Solution
Over 14 weeks, we replaced their bastion host architecture with JumpCloud for identity and device trust, AWS IAM Identity Center for federation, SSM Session Manager for server access, and Cloudflare Zero Trust to protect 12 exposed internal applications. We deployed ZTiAWS, our open-source CLI toolkit, to give engineers instant SSO access across all 15 AWS accounts. The result: zero bastion hosts, zero SSH keys, all internal sites protected, and 96% fewer SOC 2 findings.
✓The Results
Reduced bastion infrastructure costs by 91% from ~$1,400/month to ~$120/month. Achieved ~$15,000 annual savings. Eliminated all 23 bastion hosts across 15 AWS accounts and 70+ SSH keys. Protected 12 exposed internal applications with Cloudflare Zero Trust. Reduced SOC 2 security findings by 96% from 24 to 1. Freed 10+ engineering hours weekly from access management. Deployed ZTiAWS for instant SSO access across all AWS accounts.
Key Metrics
Business Impact
We were burning engineering time managing bastion hosts and drowning in SSH keys nobody could track. We had staging sites and internal tools sitting on public subdomains with no authentication. Our SOC 2 audit came back with 24 findings. We were stuck. ZSoftly transformed our entire security model. They replaced 23 bastion hosts across 15 AWS accounts with Zero Trust architecture. They eliminated every SSH key. They put all our exposed internal sites behind Cloudflare Zero Trust. The ZTiAWS tool they deployed changed how our engineers work. No more copy-pasting credentials between accounts. One command and they are authenticated to any of our 15 AWS accounts. We passed SOC 2 with only 1 minor documentation finding. This was not an incremental improvement. This was a complete transformation of how we think about security.
CTO, Enterprise SaaS Company
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