The company has been operating for over 30 years and currently has an online booking system for guests at all locations.
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Center Parcs - AWS PrivateLink
Nasstar designed and configured an AWS PrivateLink solution, which is a way of securely connecting AWS resources in two organisations’ AWS environments.
CLIENT
Center Parcs
INDUSTRY
Leisure & hospitality
SERVICE
Cloud
PARTNER
aws
The client
CenterParcsUKandIrelandoffersshortbreaksforfamiliesatsixforestlocations.
The challenges
NasstarhasbeensupportingCenterParcswiththeirAWS-deployedEnterpriseServicesLayer(ESL)solutionforanumberofyears.
ESL supports online web sales, administration, and accommodation bookings, while also enabling Center Parcs to seamlessly connect to third parties.
Thus far, one of these third parties – Adobe – has been using over-the-internet connections from resources within their own AWS environments to communicate with Center Parcs’ ESL.
Center Parcs approached Nasstar and requested that these connections be established over a private network so that they no longer traverse the internet, thus improving security and simplifying network connectivity.
Our goal
HelpCenterParcsadoptAWSPrivateLinkforsecure&privateconnectivity.
The outcome
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Security
AWS PrivateLink enables a secure and private network connection between specific resources deployed across the Center Parcs ESL and Adobe AWS accounts. The network traffic traverses AWS’s own private network infrastructure rather than the public internet, reducing its exposure to threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Performance
Using AWS PrivateLink for connectivity, instead of the internet, means that the private, highly scalable AWS-managed connection between Adobe and Center Parcs’ ESL is more performant and reliable.
Reduced complexity
The AWS PrivateLink solution has enabled Adobe connectivity into Center Parcs’ ESL without the need for managing complex network connectivity infrastructure, such as route tables and firewall rules.
Observability
CloudWatch, an AWS native tool for monitoring and observing customer solutions, provided metrics against each of the deployed resources. This enabled a high degree of end-to-end infrastructure observability, real-time alerting and feedback.
Our solution
Nasstar worked closely with Center Parcs and Adobe to ensure a smooth move to the new AWS PrivateLink service, setting up all needed resources and establishing seamless connectivity.
Mitchell Caunt
IT Infrastructure Lead
, Center Parcs
Prior to the implementation of AWS PrivateLink between our services layer and the web front end, application traffic traversed the internet via IPsec tunnels. Nasstar were able to introduce a more robust, secure, and simpler solution that has had a direct positive impact on Center Parcs. All architectures implemented are to best practice, all documentation provided was to a good standard, and Nasstar engineers proved professional and knowledgeable at every point.
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The work began as Nasstar deployed a REST API via a temporary Amazon API Gateway. This served as a secure bridge for transferring user data to Center Parcs' Auth0 account. Nasstar also developed and deployed a separate long-term solution to handle ongoing user events from Auth0.
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