ATG: A global online auction marketplace

Auction Technology Group is a digital marketplace that allows bidders from various countries to access a selection of goods curated by trusted auctioneer experts. Auction Technology Group has expanded across the UK and US markets through numerous marketplace acquisitions.

• Developing a comprehensive control of databases, APIs, and environments across systems
• Needed a unified data repository for their platform
• Ensure configuration uniformity across AWS accounts
• Enable custom notification for each configuration change in the system
• Required an infrastructure to handle increased traffic, transactions, and users at scale.  

• Leveraged AWS Control Tower to develop a centralized governance and management hub for comprehensive control.
• Used AWS Control Tower CF StackSets to record config changes for all accounts.
• Used a centralized approach coupled with reporting capabilities of AWS Control Tower to build a unified resource.
• Configured multiple AWS accounts to enforce policies standardizing configurations chances using AWS Config.
• Cloudwatch Rule is configured to forward notifications from local SNS Topic to Security Topic using AWS Control Tower Baseline templates.
• Used AWS RDS, Autoscaling, AWS EKS, and AWS Lambda functions to create a scalable infrastructure.

• Reduced 30% of efforts required to onboard newer AWS accounts
• Reduced 45% of manual lookups through a centralized single dashboard
• Created a unified repository for all the data integrations, reducing database costs by 30%
• Enhanced configuration management and enforced uniform policies. 

• AWS Config – Used AWS Config to keep track of resource configuration history, monitor changes, and ensure compliance auditing.
• AWS Cloudwatch Rules –Used CloudWatch rules to monitor Config Compliance Change events, IAM Key Age, and Auto Scaling events.
• AWS Control Tower – Used Control Tower for Security and Compliance, Resource Visibility, and Simplified Onboarding and Account Management.
• AWS Simple Notification Service(SNS) – Used SNS for real-time notifications for any alerts triggered
• AWS Simple Queue Service – Used SQS to decouple microservice to interchange data between 2 services
• AWS Cloudformation – Used Cloudformation to provision resources in the AWS account via IaaC
• AWS EKS – Used EKS to host the product on managed Kubernetes service which scales, shrinks, applications based on demand and requirements