Scaling and Securing Woofily’s Pet Services Platform with Amazon RDS

Team IHA helped Woofily scale securely using Amazon RDS, enabling high availability, automated backups, disaster recovery, and improved performance for a reliable, always-on pet services platform.

About the Customer

Woofily is a pet services platform connecting pet owners with trusted, verified hosts, providing safe and comfortable care for pets. The company’s business relies on managing customer, booking, and host data efficiently and securely.

Customer Challenge

Woofily wanted a fully managed, scalable, and highly available database solution to host all application data in the cloud. Their prior setup could not handle growing traffic and lacked automated failover, backups, and disaster recovery. Without a robust RDS solution, risks included application downtime, data loss, and compromised user experience.

Partner Solution

Team IHA INC, a Select Tier AWS Partner, implemented Amazon RDS as the core of Woofily’s database infrastructure. Key elements included:

  • Multi-AZ RDS deployments for high availability and automatic failover.
  • Automated RDS backups and snapshots with defined retention policies to meet RPO of 12 hours.
  • Encrypted storage using AWS KMS to protect sensitive customer and host data at rest, and SSL/TLS for data in transit.
  • Read replicas to support read-heavy workloads and improve application performance.
  • Integration with CloudWatch and SNS for monitoring CPU, memory, storage, and database health, triggering alerts on anomalies.
  • Automation for scaling storage and compute based on usage patterns, ensuring cost-efficient performance.

We also provided documented DR procedures, including database restoration steps, failover testing, and ongoing monthly audits to ensure data security and compliance.

Results and Benefits

Woofily now runs on a secure, highly available, and scalable RDS architecture, achieving 99.9% uptime and eliminating manual database management overhead. Automated backups and Multi-AZ deployments ensured fast recovery (RTO 1 hour, RPO 12 hours). Application performance improved by 50%, and database monitoring reduced operational risk, allowing the team to focus on customer experience.

About the Partner

Team IHA INC is a Select Tier AWS Partner specializing in secure, scalable cloud-native solutions. We help businesses design, deploy, and manage RDS-powered applications with best practices in high availability, backups, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring.

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