As part of its digital services strategy and cloud adoption journey, Center Parcs reached out to Nasstar to leverage the benefits of serverless AWS technologies.
CLIENT
Center Parcs
INDUSTRY
Leisure & hospitality
SERVICE
Cloud
PARTNER
aws
The client
The business was facing challenges in the delivery of its digital services strategy and the execution of its cloud adoption journey. Center Parcs needed to enhance its online capabilities to provide a better experience for customers accessing its website and mobile app.
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The challenges
It wanted to ensure that user data and interactions were secure across its digital platforms.
Its applications also needed to offer a consistent and high-quality experience, even as traffic levels fluctuate during holiday periods. This needed to be achieved without manual intervention or the over-provisioning of resources.
As part of its digital services strategy and cloud adoption journey, Center Parcs reached out to Nasstar to leverage the benefits of serverless AWS technologies. While traditional cloud services often involve paying for idle resources, serverless technology costs are calculated by actual usage, eliminating unnecessary expenses.
Nasstar has been working with Center Parcs to design and deploy a secure, agile, and cost-effective solution which integrates with the organisation’s existing backend Enterprise Service Layer REST services.
Our goal
The outcome
Security has been built into every layer of the solution and uses security-related AWS services and capabilities such as the AWS Web Application Firewall and Lambda Authorizers deployed as part of the API Gateway and AppSync resources.
Using serverless technologies such as API Gateway and AppSync, cloud costs are based on actual resource usage rather than relying on long-running resources which may sit idle during periods of low traffic.
By scaling up and down to meet demand, the use of serverless technologies is contributing to a more energy-efficient and sustainable IT environment.
CloudWatch, an AWS native tool for monitoring and observing customer solutions, now provides metrics against each of the deployed resources. This enables a high degree of end-to-end infrastructure observability, real-time alerting, and feedback.
With Nasstar's expert implementation of Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync, and AWS Lambda, Center Parcs was able to deliver a seamless digital experience for its customers while achieving significant cost savings and improved scalability.
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Nasstar designed a solution that directly addressed the specific needs of Center Parcs's website users as well as mobile app users. To provide business value as quickly as possible, Nasstar’s Delivery Team made their technical decisions based on three main categories:
Performance: Ensure that all digital services provided by Center Parcs are responsive and offer an excellent user experience.
Scalability: All services must have the ability to handle varying levels of user traffic without the over-provisioning of resources.
Security: Services must be secure by design and protect sensitive user data from unauthorised access.
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