Cal Housing Finance Agency Preserves Mortgage Data in the Cloud

About the Company
The Vision and Challenge
CalHFA had an on-premises platform and the lease for their datacenter was reaching completion. In addition to this, CalHFA was looking to reduce their carbon footprint and affordably and efficiently preserve their clients’ mortgage application data. Ultimately, CalHFA was reducing the size of its physical operation and staffing levels.
Project Requirements:
- Needed to design and build best practices AWS environment, including server landing zone and virtual desktop (WorkSpaces) to replace desktops
- Needed to migrate applications and data to AWS to reduce carbon footprint and replace expiring, on-premise datacenter lease
- Needed to maintain and secure access to confidential mortgage application data
The Outcome
- Cloud services project management
- Assessment of the current IT environment and infrastructure
- New AWS architecture recommendations
- Architecture and design implementation of AWS Landing Zone and Virtual Desktop environment (WorkSpaces)
- Security evaluation, design, and recommendations
- Development, implementation and support of AWS Landing Zone
- Migration of applications into AWS Landing Zone and desktops to AWS WorkSpaces
- Assessment and configuration of storage and DR solutions
- DevOps application support
- SysOps monitoring and alerts
The Cloud Services practice also assessed and configured the cloud solution to enable data recovery and retention compliance. The goal was to ensure ongoing support for CalHFAs evolving needs. The project went to production in August 2018 and they selected our co-managed CMLA service plan.
As a result of the engagement, InterVision successfully implemented all the above bullet points and exceeded the client’s requirements. We provided them with a detailed AWS target architecture, and an efficient and executable project management schedule, which allowed CalHFA to improve visual customization / monitoring alerts using AWS SES, providing an improved solution vs. their original design doc.
AWS Services Utilized:
- WorkSpaces
- EBS
- S3
- Glacier
- Storage Gateway
- Directory Services
- WorkDocs
- SES
- VPC
- DaaS
- AWS Microsoft AD
- EC2
- EC2 dedicated hosts
- EC2 reserved instances
- AMI
- CloudTrail
Third-Party Applications or Solutions Used:
- Cloud Ranger
- Cloud Berry
InterVision’s Virtual Desktop Service
InterVision’s AWS Cloud Services