About the Customer
With a legacy of more than 60 years, Ashapura is a leading multi-mineral solutions provider with a global footprint, having a wide network of operations in several states within India and in other countries.
Their captive mineral resources, state-of-the-art manufacturing base, cutting edge research capabilities, logistical prowess and 2,800 dynamic, progressive, result oriented employees accord us global leadership in several segments. Their consistent quality and their ability to customize mineral solutions make them a preferred supplier to multi-nationals in more than 70 countries across the continents.
Ashapura means “Fulfilling Aspirations”; they believe that sustainable growth occurs only when they fulfil aspirations of all their stakeholders such as customers, employees, shareholders, the environment and the society as a whole.
Customer Challenges
With rapid business expansion, Ashapura faced significant barriers maintaining and scaling their CRM and Employee Portal platforms, which are critical for customer management, HR workflows, and employee engagement.
Business Challenges
- Siloed Legacy Applications: CRM and Employee Portal ran on fragmented, on-premises infrastructure, resulting in duplicated data and inconsistent workflows.
- Manual Processes: Deployments and environment changes required hands-on intervention, leading to delays, higher error rates, and reduced productivity.
- Global Access Demand: As a multinational, Ashapura required secure, reliable 24/7 application availability for employees and partners worldwide.
- Data Security & Compliance: Handling sensitive customer and HR data meant increased demands on security, auditability, and regulatory alignment.
Technical Challenges
- Environment Consistency: Manual provisioning and configuration led to inconsistent infrastructure setups, increasing the risk of deployment failures and outages.
- Monitoring & Recovery: Insufficient centralized monitoring and lack of automated backups hindered rapid issue detection, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.
- Scalability Bottlenecks: Legacy infrastructure lacked flexibility to dynamically scale resources, making it difficult to efficiently handle growth and varying workloads.
Risks and Impact if the Challenge Were Not Addressed
Failure to modernize and optimize Ashapura’s logistics operations would have led to significant business and technical setbacks, affecting scalability, profitability, and customer experience.
- Downtime: Increases the risk of business interruption impacting customer service and employee productivity.
- Data Breach/Compliance Issues: Potential exposure of sensitive data due to inconsistent security measures.
- Inefficiency: Prolonged manual operations would limit digital transformation and competitiveness.
About the Partner
AeonX Digital is an AWS Managed Service Partner renowned for its expertise in cloud transformation projects across manufacturing, mining, and industrial sectors. AeonX delivers secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions—leveraging AWS CloudFormation and native AWS services for automation, compliance, and long-term agility.
Solution Provided
AeonX Digital architected and delivered a modern, secure AWS environment for the CRM and Employee Portal, leveraging:
- AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code for consistent, repeatable provisioning of networks, compute, databases, security, and monitoring.
- AWS-Native CI/CD Pipeline: Automated software delivery with GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
- Security Controls: Strict IAM practices, KMS-driven encryption, private/public subnet isolation, and application protection using AWS WAF and CloudFront.
- Data Management: Amazon RDS for managed, encrypted database services and S3 for scalable storage.
- Observability & Recovery: Amazon CloudWatch and CloudTrail for monitoring and audit, AWS Backup for automated backups.
Results and Benefits
| Area | Achievement |
| Deployment Speed | Automated builds and environment provisioning cut release cycles by over 50%. |
| Scalability & Availability | Modular architecture with ALB and auto scaling supports seamless business growth and high uptime. |
| Security & Compliance | End-to-end encryption, private networking, and audit logging reduced risk and supported regulatory needs. |
| Operational Efficiency | IaC reduced manual work, speed onboarding, and improved error detection/resolution. |
| Business Continuity | Centralized monitoring and automated backups ensured rapid disaster recovery and resilience. |
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