Overview
Saudi Gulf Airlines (SGA) has grown to be one of the leading global carriers since it began its operations in 2016. The airlines boast offices across Asia, Africa, and Europe, headquartered in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
As a prominent player in the market and with an increasing customer base, SGA was looking to build and improve its application to offer seamless communication, a user-friendly interface, and more convenient processes.
Client: Saudi Gulf Airlines (SGA)
Industry: Tourism
Services: Cloud Computing
Website: saudigulfairlines.com
Challenges
SGA team had the challenge of installing and configuring a datacenter on the cloud to improve their website performance and create development, staging, and production environments to tailor the SGA application.
If they had to update any existing technology, they had to first check the compatibility with existing on-premises infrastructure and also make upfront payments for upgrades without testing effectivity of the system. They were looking for a scalable and flexible solution that would enable them to run updates and utilize computing resources whenever needed.
Solution
Alnafitha’s experienced technical team went on to establish the details of building an end-to-end production-grade architecture on AWS. The vendor had recently opened a cluster of datacenters in the Middle East located in Bahrain, allowing regional organizations to easily meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. By leveraging these regional AWS datacenters, the solutions provider could now build a highly available and scalable application without any hassle for SGA.
Moamen Hany, Alnafitha’s Technical Consultant, said, “We explained to the customer why opting for a 3-tier architecture was ideal for their situation. It offers several advantages for production and development environments as elements such as user interfaces, data storage and business logic can be worked on in separate modules. This offers developers more flexibility as they can now work on a particular area of an application in isolation, without affecting other layers. The best part is that all tiers are located in the same datacenter and has security embedded, even though the environments are isolated.”
The Results We Achieved Together
SGA was impressed with the benefits that AWS offered. They were particularly pleased with the scalability and flexibility features. With AWS, they could invest on-demand as their requirements grow without disrupting their regular operations. They also had the option to stop using a feature if they wished and further reduce on costs without affecting any other benefits.
When COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to go under a lockdown, SGA was able to temporarily shut the application and resumed it effortlessly once regular operations restarted without any financial loss.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Alnafitha IT was able to help Saudi Gulf Airlines overcome the challenges they faced with their on-premises infrastructure by building a scalable and flexible solution on AWS. By leveraging regional AWS datacenters, SGA was able to achieve a highly available and scalable application without any hassle.
The 3-tier architecture allowed developers to work on a particular area of an application in isolation, without affecting other layers. SGA was impressed with the scalability and flexibility features of AWS and could invest on-demand as their requirements grew without disrupting their regular operations.
The cloud architecture offered the freedom that was incomparable to anything experienced with on-premises infrastructure. Overall, the successful partnership between Alnafitha IT and SGA showcases the benefits of cloud computing and how it can help organizations scale and meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
