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Ryval-X achieves AWS CloudFormation
Service Delivery Designation

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We’re thrilled to announce that we have achieved the AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery designation, recognizing our expertise in delivering infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using AWS CloudFormation. This achievement underscores our commitment to helping customers automate, manage, and scale their AWS environments efficiently.

What this achievement means for our Customers

As an AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery Partner, we bring:

Proven Expertise

  • AWS has validated our deep knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing CloudFormation stacks. This ensures that our customers receive best-practice-driven solutions that align with AWS standards.

Faster Deployments & Reduced Errors

  • By leveraging CloudFormation templates, we help organizations automate infrastructure provisioning, minimizing human errors and ensuring consistent deployments across multiple environments

Scalable & Secure Architectures

  • With CloudFormation’s infrastructure-as-code approach, we enable businesses to scale seamlessly while maintaining compliance with security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, and resource monitoring.

Cost Optimization

  • We design reusable and modular templates that promote efficiency, reducing redundant configurations and optimizing resource utilization—helping you save time and costs in managing cloud infrastructure.

Seamless Integration with AWS Services

  • Our expertise extends beyond CloudFormation—we help customers integrate their infrastructure with AWS services like AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon ECS, and more, ensuring a fully automated cloud ecosystem.

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that allows users to model, provision, and manage AWS resources in an automated and consistent manner. By using CloudFormation templates, organizations can define their cloud infrastructure in a declarative way, ensuring efficient and repeatable deployments.

Key Features of AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • CloudFormation enables users to describe their infrastructure using YAML or JSON templates, eliminating the need for manual configurations.

Automated and Consistent Deployments

  • With CloudFormation, infrastructure deployment is automated, version-controlled, and repeatable, reducing human error and ensuring consistency across environments.

Drift Detection

  • CloudFormation provides drift detection, helping users identify any unintended changes in their deployed resources compared to the template specifications

Stack Management

  • Users can deploy and manage groups of related AWS resources as stacks, making it easier to scale, modify, or delete entire infrastructures.

Change Sets

  • Before applying updates, CloudFormation allows users to preview the impact of changes through Change Sets, ensuring safe modifications.

Seamless Integration with AWS Services

  • CloudFormation integrates with services like AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon RDS, AWS Auto Scaling, and AWS IAM, allowing for advanced automation and security.

Some of Ryval-X Use cases of AWS CloudFormation implementation

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS CloudFront across various use cases, including:

Automating Infrastructure Deployment

Scenario: A software development company needs to provision and manage multi-tier applications across development, testing, and production environments.

Solution: Using AWS CloudFormation, they create a single template that defines:

  • Amazon EC2 instances for the application
  • Amazon RDS for the database
  • Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for traffic distribution
  • AWS Auto Scaling for handling variable loads

Benefit: This automation ensures consistent deployments, reduces errors, and speeds up provisioning across multiple environments.

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Scenario: A DevOps team wants to automate infrastructure provisioning as part of their CI/CD pipeline.

Solution: CloudFormation integrates with AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy to automate:

  • Deployment of new infrastructure versions
  • Rolling updates for application releases
  • Automatic rollback in case of failures
Benefit: Ensures fast, repeatable, and reliable software releases without manual intervention.

Multi-Account and Multi-Region Management

Scenario: A global enterprise needs to maintain identical AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions for regulatory compliance.
Solution: CloudFormation StackSets allow administrators to:
  • Deploy the same infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions
  • pply updates uniformly without logging into each account separately
  • Enforce security and compliance policies centrally

Benefit: Reduces complexity and ensures consistency in cloud governance across different teams and locations.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Scenario: A financial services company requires a disaster recovery (DR) strategy with rapid infrastructure restoration.
Solution: CloudFormation templates define:
  • A backup infrastructure in a secondary AWS region
  • Automated recovery using AWS Backup and Amazon S3 replication
  • Quick redeployment of services using predefined templates
Benefit: Ensures minimal downtime and fast recovery in case of failures, improving business continuity.

Serverless Application Deployment

Scenario:A startup wants to build a fully serverless application with minimal operational overhead.
Solution: Using CloudFormation, they define:
  • AWS Lambda functions for backend logic
  • Amazon API Gateway for API management
  • Amazon DynamoDB for a serverless database
  • AWS Step Functions for workflow automation
Benefit: Scalable, cost-effective, and fully managed infrastructure with minimal maintenance.

Security & Compliance Automation

Scenario: A healthcare company needs to enforce security best practices and compliance with HIPAA regulations.
Solution:
  • CloudFormation templates enforce IAM roles & security policies
  • AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail are automatically configured for compliance tracking
  • VPCs, security groups, and encryption settings are predefined to meet security standards
Benefit: Guarantees that every deployment follows security and compliance requirements without manual configuration.

What customer achieved:

Faster Time-to-Market
Result: Reduced infrastructure deployment time from weeks to hours by automating resource provisioning with CloudFormation.
Impact: Enabled faster feature rollouts, improving customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.
Cost Savings through Infrastructure Optimization
Result: Achieved 40% cost savings by implementing CloudFormation templates that optimize AWS resource allocation.
Impact: Eliminated unnecessary resource provisioning and improved budget efficiency.
Seamless Multi-Region Expansion
Result: Used CloudFormation StackSets to deploy identical environments in five AWS regions within hours.
Impact: Enabled quick scaling and ensured compliance with regional regulations.
Improved Security & Compliance
Result: Automated enforcement of security best practices (IAM roles, encryption, network controls) using CloudFormation templates.

Impact: Reduced manual security misconfigurations, ensuring 100% compliance with industry standards.

Reliable Disaster Recovery
Result: Implemented an automated disaster recovery plan using CloudFormation, reducing recovery time from 8 hours to 30 minutes.

Impact: Ensured business continuity with minimal downtime and faster system restoration.

Scalable Serverless Applications
Result: Used CloudFormation to deploy and manage a fully serverless backend with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
Impact: Reduced operational overhead and scaled seamlessly to handle user growth.

Key Learnings:

Automation is the Key to Efficiency
Lesson: Manual infrastructure provisioning leads to inconsistencies and errors.
Learning: CloudFormation enables fully automated, repeatable deployments, reducing operational overhead and improving reliability.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Enhances Consistency
Lesson: Managing cloud infrastructure through manual configurations can lead to drift and unexpected behavior.
Learning: Defining infrastructure in YAML or JSON ensures consistency across environments, making deployments predictable and maintainable.
Change Management is Crucial
Lesson: Infrastructure updates can introduce breaking changes if not tested properly.
Learning: Using Change Sets before applying updates helps visualize and mitigate risks, ensuring smooth infrastructure modifications.
Security & Compliance Should Be Built-In
Lesson: Security misconfigurations can expose sensitive data and compromise applications.
Learning: Implementing IAM policies, encryption, and security group configurations within CloudFormation templates enforces best practices and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
Scalability is Best Achieved Through Modularity
Lesson: Monolithic CloudFormation templates can become complex and difficult to manage.
Learning: Breaking templates into modular stacks improves maintainability, allowing teams to scale infrastructure easily using nested stacks and StackSets.
Multi-Region & Multi-Account Deployments Require Planning
Lesson: Expanding to new regions or AWS accounts can be time-consuming without a standardized approach.
Learning: CloudFormation StackSets enable centralized deployments, ensuring uniformity and reducing operational complexity across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
Disaster Recovery is Faster with Infrastructure as Code
Lesson: Traditional disaster recovery plans involve lengthy manual configurations.
Learning: With CloudFormation, teams can restore infrastructure quickly using predefined templates, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Monitoring & Drift Detection Improves Governance
Lesson: Over time, manual changes to resources can cause discrepancies between the actual state and the intended configuration.
Learning: Drift Detection helps identify unintended changes, allowing teams to revert or correct misconfigurations proactively.

Conclusion:

By leveraging AWS CloudFormation, our customers have achieved faster deployments, cost efficiency, security compliance, scalability, and resilience. Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise, CloudFormation helps drive automation, consistency, and business growth.

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AWS CloudFront

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS CloudFront

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We are thrilled to announce that Ryval-X has achieved the AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS CloudFront. This significant milestone was earned after passing a rigorous technical validation conducted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, who are experts in AWS CloudFront. They thoroughly tested our case studies and architecture models, ensuring that all best practices were meticulously implemented.

Achieving the AWS CloudFront Service Delivery designation means that Ryval-X has demonstrated deep expertise in Amazon CloudFront and has met AWS’s rigorous technical validation and customer success criteria.

What our AWS CloudFront Service Delivery Achievement means for our Customers

Our recent AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS CloudFront brings several benefits to our customers:

Proven Expertise & Reliability

Customers can trust that the Ryval-X team has the technical skills and experience to design, implement, and optimize CloudFront solutions efficiently. This minimizes risks and ensures high-performance content delivery.

Optimized Performance & Security

With this designation, Ryval-X team has shown expertise in improving content delivery performance while securing applications using CloudFront’s features, such as:

  • DDoS protection via AWS Shield
  • Secure access through signed URLs/cookies
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration
  • Edge functions like Lambda@Edge for custom processing

Cost Optimization & Efficiency

Our customers benefit from cost-effective caching strategies and optimized configurations that reduce latency and bandwidth costs while improving user experience.

Faster Deployments & Best Practices

We follow AWS best practices, so customers can expect faster, well-architected deployments tailored to their business needs.

Access to AWS Funding & Support

AWS often provides incentives, promotional credits, and co-selling opportunities for AWS-certified partners. This can translate into potential cost savings and additional resources for your customers.

Customer Confidence

The AWS CloudFront Service Delivery Achievement assures to our customers that:

  • Ryval-X follows AWS best practices in our implementations.
  • Ryval-X has a proven track record of success with real-world use cases.
  • Customers can trust Ryval-X to deliver reliable and scalable AWS CloudFront solutions tailored to their needs.

AWS CloudFront - An Overview:

Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable and secure content delivery network (CDN) that speeds up the distribution of web content, APIs, videos, and other assets to users worldwide. It leverages a global network of edge locations to cache content closer to end users, reducing latency and improving performance.

Global Content Delivery with Low Latency

CloudFront has a vast network of edge locations and regional edge caches that store copies of content closer to users, significantly reducing load times.

High Performance & Scalability

Our designation means we can help customers integrate AWS Config with:

  • Delivers static & dynamic content, live streaming, and APIs with low latency.
  • Supports customizable caching and compression to optimize performance.
  • Integrates with AWS Global Accelerator for enhanced routing.

Advanced Security & Compliance

  • DDoS Protection with AWS Shield Standard (built-in).
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration to prevent common threats.
  • SSL/TLS Encryption and custom security policies.
  • Signed URLs & Cookies for access control to premium content.

Cost Efficiency & Pay-as-You-Go Model

  • No upfront costs—you pay only for what you use.
  • Data transfer savings with edge caching and AWS Origin Shield.
  • AWS Free Tier allows up to 1 TB of data transfer free each month.

Seamless Integration with AWS Services

CloudFront works seamlessly with:
  • S3 (for static content hosting)
  • EC2 & ALB (for dynamic content & APIs)
  • AWS Lambda@Edge (for edge computing & customization)
  • Amazon QuickSight (for embedding dashboards with low latency)

Seamless Integration with AWS Services

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS CloudFront across various use cases, including:

  • Website & Application Acceleration – Improve page load speeds for websites & SaaS applications.
  • Live & On-Demand Streaming – Deliver high-quality video streaming via HLS, DASH, and RTMP.
  • API Acceleration – Optimize API traffic with caching and global distribution.
  • Security & Access Control – Protect against attacks and enforce access restrictions.
  • Software Distribution – Efficiently deliver updates, patches, and binaries.

What customer achieved:

Reduced Latency by 60%

After implementing CloudFront, global users experienced a significant reduction in latency. The average page load time for users outside the U.S. dropped by 60%, leading to improved user experience and higher engagement rates.

Cost Efficiency

By offloading traffic to CloudFront’s edge locations, the customer reduced the load on its origin servers, leading to a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs. They no longer needed overprovisioning the infra resources for traffic spikes.

Improved Scalability

CloudFront’s auto-scaling features allowed the customer to seamlessly handle high-traffic periods during surveys without downtime or slowdowns. The platform successfully managed a 300% spike in traffic without any performance issues.

Enhanced Security

AWS Shield and AWS WAF, combined with CloudFront, drastically reduced the impact of DDoS attacks and blocked thousands of malicious requests daily. The customer saw a 95% decrease in the volume of successful attacks.

Faster Content Delivery

Caching product images, CSS, and JavaScript files at CloudFront’s edge locations sped up the load times for all static content. Video buffering was minimized, improving user retention and reducing cart abandonment.

Key Learnings:

  • Optimize Cache Invalidation: Efficient cache invalidation strategies were critical for ensuring that users received up-to-date content without increasing the load on the origin servers.
  • Leverage Lambda@Edge: Personalizing content at the edge using Lambda@Edge allowed the company to improve user experience without having to significantly increase backend complexity.
  • Integrate WAF Early: Enabling AWS WAF from the start was crucial in preventing malicious requests and protecting the platform from web-based exploits.

Conclusion:

By implementing AWS CloudFront, Ryval-X significantly improved the performance and security of its customer survey platform. The company was able to provide a better user experience through faster content delivery, enhance site security, and reduce costs by offloading traffic to edge locations and reducing the load on the origin infrastructure.

This implementation allowed the customer to scale efficiently with growing user demand, maintain high availability during traffic surges, and protect itself from security threats.

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS Config

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We are thrilled to announce that Ryval-X has achieved the AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS Config. This significant milestone was earned after passing a rigorous technical validation conducted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, who are experts in AWS Config. They thoroughly tested our case studies and architecture models, ensuring that all best practices were meticulously implemented.

Our team demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in helping organizations implement and manage AWS Config to monitor and assess resource compliance and configurations across their environments.

What our AWS Config Service Delivery Achievement means for our Customers

Our recent AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS Config brings several benefits to our customers:

1. Trusted Expertise in AWS Config

Ryval-X achievement ensures customers can rely on our deep technical knowledge of AWS Config. We are equipped to:

  • Help customers implement AWS Config efficiently.
  • Customize solutions to meet their unique compliance, security, and operational requirements.
  • Deliver actionable insights into their AWS environments.

2. Streamlined Compliance and Governance

Our Customers benefit from:

  • Automated Compliance: Set up rules and remediation processes to meet regulatory standards such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HIPAA.
  • Audit-Ready Systems: Simplified, automated reporting and historical tracking of configurations ensure smoother audits.
  • Consistent Governance: ssistance in governing multi-account, multi-region setups using AWS Config Aggregators.

3. Improved Security and Risk Management

Our AWS Config expertise enables customers to:

  • Detect and remediate misconfigurations that could lead to security vulnerabilities.
  • Monitor and enforce best practices for secure cloud environments (e.g., proper IAM permissions, S3 bucket configurations, and network security).

4. Cost and Operational Efficiency

With Ryval-X guidance:

  • Customers can minimize downtime and operational risks by detecting and resolving configuration drifts quickly.
  • Gain a clearer understanding of their resource inventory and relationships, leading to better resource utilization and cost management.

5. Integration with Broader AWS Ecosystem

Our designation means we can help customers integrate AWS Config with:

  • AWS Security Hub: Ryval-X AWS WAF expertise allows customers to achieve faster deployment, improved configuration accuracy, and reduced downtime.
  • AWS Organizations: For consistent policy enforcement across accounts.
  • Custom Workflows: Leveraging third-party or in-house tools for advanced compliance and monitoring solutions.

6. Customer Confidence

The AWS Config Service Delivery Achievement assures to our customers that:

  • Ryval-X follows AWS best practices in our implementations.
  • Ryval-X has a proven track record of success with real-world use cases.
  • Customers can trust Ryval-X to deliver reliable and scalable AWS Config solutions tailored to their needs.

AWS Config - An Overview:

AWS Config is a service that enables organizations to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources. It provides a detailed view of configuration history, resource relationships, and compliance with specified policies, helping businesses maintain governance, security, and operational efficiency.

1. Configuration Recording:

  • Tracks changes to AWS resource configurations over time.
  • Provides a historical view of configuration states.

2. Compliance Management:

  • Allows users to define and enforce custom or prebuilt compliance rules.
  • Automates assessments of resource configurations against these rules.

3. Resource Inventory:

  • Automatically discovers resources within an AWS account.
  • Builds an inventory complete with metadata, relationships, and configuration history.

4. Change Management:

  • Enables detection of configuration changes that might affect compliance or operations.
  • Facilitates tracking and rollback to desired states.

5. Integration with Other Services:

  • Works seamlessly with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Organizations, and Amazon CloudWatch.
  • Supports third-party and custom integrations for enhanced governance.

Some of Ryval-X Use cases of AWS Config implementation

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS Config across various use cases, including:

Regulatory Compliance:

  • Meet compliance frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.
  • Automate compliance reporting and remediation actions.

Security Management:

  • Monitor misconfigurations that might pose security risks.
  • Enforce security best practices for resources such as IAM roles, S3 buckets, and security groups.

Operational Efficiency:

  • Simplify troubleshooting by pinpointing changes causing issues.
  • Maintain consistent configurations across environments.

Multi-Account Governance:

  • Centralize governance in multi-account setups using AWS Config Aggregator.
  • Enforce global policies across AWS Organizations.

Cloud Resource Optimization:

  • Track and validate changes to prevent unapproved resource deployments.
  • Use cost-effective strategies for managing configurations.

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AWS WAF

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS WAF

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We are thrilled to announce that Ryval-X has achieved the AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS WAF. This significant milestone was earned after passing a rigorous technical validation conducted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, who are experts in AWS WAF. They thoroughly tested our case studies and architecture models, ensuring that all best practices were meticulously implemented.

Our team demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in helping organizations implement and manage AWS WAF to monitor and assess resource compliance and configurations across their environments.

What our AWS WAF Service Delivery Achievement means for our Customers

Our recent AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS WAF brings several benefits to our customers:

1. Demonstrated Expertise

  • This recognition showcases Ryval-X proven ability to design, implement, and manage AWS WAF for a variety of use cases, including protecting web applications from common threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and DDoS attacks.
  • Customers can trust Ryval-X in leveraging AWS WAF to provide robust application security.

2. Enhanced Security Posture

  • Customers benefited from tailored Ryval-X WAF configurations that meet their specific needs, whether they’re securing APIs, e-commerce platforms, or other web applications.
  • Ryval-X helped customers stay ahead of emerging threats by delivering fine-grained controls and ongoing rule optimization.

3. Validated Performance

  • Achieving this status means Ryval-X has consistently met AWS’s rigorous technical and operational requirements, assuring customers of high-quality service delivery.
  • It demonstrates a track record of successful WAF deployments, including mitigating threats in real-time.

4. Streamlined Compliance

  • Many organizations face strict compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR). With Ryval-X proven WAF expertise, we helped customers implement rules and logging strategies that align with these standards.
  • Customers gain confidence that their web applications are protected in compliance with global security regulations.

5. Operational Efficiency

  • Ryval-X AWS WAF expertise allows customers to achieve faster deployment, improved configuration accuracy, and reduced downtime.
  • It minimizes the time and resources customers need to spend on managing application security, freeing them to focus on core business activities.

6. Access to Proven Solutions

  • Customers benefit from pre-built or custom rule sets that address specific attack vectors and business needs, ensuring they get the best protection without unnecessary complexity.
  • Customers can expect and benefit from modern, forward-thinking strategies for managing web application security from Ryval-X.

7. Commitment to Innovation

  • Being an AWS Partner with the WAF Service Delivery Achievement signals Ryval-X’s commitment to staying updated on AWS advancements and continuously improving the solutions you deliver.
  • Customers can expect and benefit from modern, forward-thinking strategies for managing web application security from Ryval-X.

AWS WAF- An Overview:

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a security service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to protect web applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities. A specialization in AWS WAF involves understanding its configuration, deployment, and best practices for securing web applications hosted on AWS. Here’s a breakdown of key areas of AWS WAF specialization:

1. Core Concepts of AWS WAF:

  • Web ACLs (Access Control Lists): The core component of AWS WAF. Web ACLs allow you to define rules that filter HTTP(S) requests based on criteria like IP addresses, string matches, geographic location, and request size.
  • Rules and Rule Groups: AWS WAF allows users to create custom rules or use pre-configured managed rule groups that filter traffic based on specific patterns (e.g., SQL injections, cross-site scripting).
  • Managed Rules:AWS Marketplace offers managed rules from AWS and third-party vendors for common threats.
  • Rate-Based Rules:These rules help mitigate DDoS attacks by limiting requests based on rates (e.g., number of requests from an IP over a specific period).
  • Rate-Based Rules:Each rule consists of conditions that include IP matching, header matching, string matching, or geographic location.

2. Deployment and Integration:

  • Global vs. Regional Scope:AWS WAF can be deployed globally with Amazon CloudFront (CDN) or regionally with services like Application Load Balancer (ALB) and API Gateway.
  • ECloudFront Integration:AWS WAF can be integrated with CloudFront to provide security to web applications and APIs distributed across the globe.
  • API Gateway and ALB Integration:AWS WAF works regionally with ALB and API Gateway to protect internal and external services.
  • AWS Firewall Manager:Helps manage AWS WAF across multiple accounts and applications using AWS Organizations, enforcing security rules at scale.

3. Rule Creation and Management:

  • Custom Rule Creation:Writing custom rules that target specific application vulnerabilities, such as certain SQL injection patterns or abnormal traffic behavior.
  • Use of Regular Expressions: AWS WAF supports regular expressions (regex) to create more sophisticated rules.
  • Rule Grouping: Grouping similar rules for better management and performance.

4. Security Best Practices:

  • Blocking Common Web Exploits:Using managed rules or custom rules to prevent common web attacks, such as OWASP Top 10 threats (SQL injection, cross-site scripting, etc.).
  • Rate Limiting: Implement rate-limiting to protect against DDoS attacks by throttling the number of requests a user can make within a certain time window.
  • Logging and Monitoring: AWS WAF logs can be sent to Amazon S3, CloudWatch, or Kinesis Data Firehose for monitoring, auditing, and alerting. Monitoring traffic patterns and alerting on unusual activity is crucial for detecting potential threats early..
  • Automation via AWS Lambda: Integrating AWS WAF with Lambda to automatically adjust rules based on traffic patterns or threats.

5. Cost Optimization:

  • AWS WAF Pricing:AWS WAF charges based on the number of Web ACLs, rules, and the amount of traffic processed. Understanding the cost structure is crucial for building efficient, cost-effective security setups.
  • Usage of Managed Rules:Managed rules are often cheaper and easier to maintain, but in some cases, creating custom rules might be more cost-effective.

6. Advanced Features:

  • Bot Control:AWS WAF now provides bot control to mitigate threats from automated traffic like scrapers or malicious bots.
  • WAFv2:AWS WAF’s new version (WAFv2) provides an updated API and new features such as JSON body inspection, CAPTCHA, and more precise logging capabilities.

7. Troubleshooting and Optimization:

  • Analyzing Logs:AWS WAF logs can be analyzed for insights into blocked requests, reasons for block actions, and general traffic trends.
  • Rule Optimization:Ensure that rules are efficient by avoiding unnecessary complexity and regularly reviewing rule effectiveness.

Some of Ryval-X Use cases of AWS WAF implementation

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS WAF across various use cases, including:

1. Protection Against Common Web Attacks

  • Use Case: Prevented SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Leveraged managed rule sets or custom rules to block malicious requests targeting known application vulnerabilities.

2. Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

  • Use Case: Protected web applications and APIs from volumetric attacks that overwhelm resources. 
  • How Ryval-X helped: Combined AWS WAF with AWS Shield Advanced for rate-based rules to throttle suspicious IPs or block excessive traffic patterns.

3. API Security

  • Use Case: Secured APIs from unauthorized access, abuse, and injection attacks.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Configured rules to filter requests based on headers, query parameters, or specific paths to ensure only valid traffic reaches the API.

4. Bot Mitigation

  • Use Case: Blocked or managed bots performing scraping, account takeovers, or other automated activities.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Used AWS Managed Rules for bot control to block malicious bots and allow beneficial bots like search engines.

5. Geo-Restriction

  • Use Case: Restricted access to your web application or APIs based on geographic locations.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Implemented geo-match conditions to block or allow traffic from specific countries or regions.

6. Rate Limiting

  • Use Case: Prevented abuse of your application by limiting the rate of incoming requests (e.g., API rate-limiting or login attempts).
  • How Ryval-X helped: Used rate-based rules to automatically block or throttle clients exceeding a specified request threshold.

7. Custom Rule Implementation for Business Logic

  • Use Case: Prevented specific attacks related to your unique application behavior (e.g., logic flaws, excessive data extraction).
  • How Ryval-X helped: Defined custom rules using conditions like string matches, regular expressions, and IP address filtering.

8. Content Scraping Prevention

  • Use Case: Protected intellectual property by preventing web scraping of your content.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Blocked requests that match scraping behavior patterns (e.g., excessive GET requests or specific user-agent strings).

9. Improved Compliance and Auditing

  • Use Case: Ensured your application meets compliance standards like PCI DSS or HIPAA.
  • How Ryval-X helped: BCreated detailed logs of all web requests for auditing purposes and used WAF rules to ensure only secure connections and valid traffic are allowed.

10. Zero-Day Threat Mitigation

  • Use Case: EResponding to newly discovered vulnerabilities before patches are available.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Quickly deploy temporary custom rules or use Managed Rules for emerging threats to block attacks targeting zero-day vulnerabilities.

11. Integration with CDN for Enhanced Security

  • Use Case: Secured traffic to your global content distribution network.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Integrated WAF with AWS CloudFront to enforce security policies close to users and reduce latency for legitimate traffic.

12. Fine-Grained Access Control

  • Use Case: SImplemented restrictions based on IP addresses, headers, or query strings for specific parts of your application.
  • How Ryval-X helped: Defined granular rules to allow or block access for particular use cases, such as admin panels or testing environments.

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS Systems Manager

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We are thrilled to announce that Ryval-X has achieved the AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS Systems Manager. This significant milestone was earned after passing a rigorous technical validation conducted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, who are experts in AWS Lambda. They thoroughly tested our case studies and architecture models, ensuring that all best practices were meticulously implemented.

Our team is dedicated to helping organizations of any size redesign their legacy applications or release new ones by leveraging AWS Systems Manager and other serverless services. By doing so, we make applications easier to scale and faster to develop, fostering innovation.

What our AWS Systems Manager Service Delivery Achievement means for our Customers

Our recent AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS Systems Manager brings several benefits to our customers:

1. Expertise and Reliability

  • High Standards of Service: Earning the AWS Systems Manager Service Delivery Achievement demonstrates that Ryval-X has met the rigorous technical and customer satisfaction standards set by AWS. This gives our customers confidence that they are working with a partner who has proven expertise in AWS Systems Manager.
  • Consistent and Reliable Delivery:Our customers trust that the solutions and services provided by Ryval-X that are consistently delivered to high standards, ensuring reliability and efficiency in managing and automating their AWS infrastructure.

2.Optimized Operations

  • Efficient Infrastructure Management: With AWS Systems Manager, we help our customers to automate routine tasks, streamline operations, and manage their infrastructure more effectively. This leads to reduced operational overhead and improved performance.
  • Enhanced Security and Compliance:AWS Systems Manager provides tools for managing system configurations, patching, and enforcing compliance policies. Our achievement assures customers that their environments are being managed securely and in accordance with best practices.

3.Tailored Solutions

  • Customized Management Solutions:This achievement highlights our ability to deliver customized solutions that leverage AWS Systems Manager’s capabilities, tailored to meet the unique needs of each customer. This ensures that our customers get the most value from their AWS investments.
  • Scalable Solutions:Customers will benefit from scalable solutions that grow with their business. AWS Systems Manager allows for flexible management across various environments, making it easier to scale operations without compromising on control or visibility.

4.Cost Efficiency

  • Optimized Resource Utilization:Our expertise in AWS Systems Manager enables customers to optimize resource utilization, leading to potential cost savings. Automated processes reduce the need for manual intervention, minimizing the risk of human error and unnecessary expenses.
  • Cost-effective Solutions:The ability to efficiently manage AWS resources means that customers can focus on innovation and business growth, knowing that their operational costs are under control.

5. Innovative Edge

  • Continuous Improvement:Achieving this recognition positions Ryval-X as an innovator in cloud management services. Our customers can expect continuous improvement and access to the latest AWS innovations through your partnership.
  • Competitive Advantage:As a customer, working with a partner like Ryval-X who holds this achievement provides a competitive advantage. They can leverage advanced AWS tools and services to stay ahead in their respective industries.

What is AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager is a comprehensive management service that enables customers to view and control the infrastructure on AWS. It provides a unified user interface to manage your AWS resources, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, and more, across different AWS regions and accounts. Here’s a more detailed overview of what AWS Systems Manager offers:

1. Centralized Resource Management

  • Resource Groups: AWS Systems Manager allows you to organize and manage resources by grouping them together. This is particularly useful for managing resources that share a common lifecycle or that are part of a specific application.

2. Operational Insights

  • Dashboard:The service provides a centralized dashboard that gives you visibility into operational data across your AWS environment. This includes real-time information on resource health, compliance, and configuration.
  • Explorer:AWS Systems Manager Explorer offers a customizable operations dashboard that helps you understand and resolve operational issues.

3. Automation and Task Management

  • Run Command:You can automate the execution of commands on your instances at scale, without the need for SSH or RDP. This is useful for tasks like patch management, software updates, and other maintenance activities.
  • Automation: This feature allows you to automate complex operational tasks such as creating backups, cleaning up unused resources, or restarting services across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
  • State Manager: You can define and enforce configuration states on your instances. For example, you can ensure that specific software is always installed and running.

4. Patch and Compliance Management

  • Patch Manager:This helps you automate the process of patching your managed instances with security updates. You can define patch baselines, schedule patches, and monitor compliance.
  • Compliance: AWS Systems Manager provides detailed compliance reports for your managed instances, ensuring that they adhere to your desired state configurations.

5. Inventory and Resource Discovery

  • Inventory:AWS Systems Manager collects metadata from your managed instances, such as installed applications, configuration details, and system information. This data can be used for reporting and auditing purposes.
  • AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager:This feature allows you to manage and interact with your instances from a centralized location, making it easier to perform tasks like file management and troubleshooting.

6. Parameter Store

  • Secrets and Configuration Management:AWS Systems Manager includes a Parameter Store that allows you to store configuration data and secrets (e.g., passwords, database connection strings) securely. These can be referenced in your applications without hardcoding sensitive information.

7. Session Manager

  • Secure Access to Instances:Session Manager allows you to securely access and manage your EC2 instances without needing to open inbound ports, manage SSH keys, or use bastion hosts. It provides an auditable way to interact with instances directly from the AWS Management Console.

8. Cost Management

  • Automation of Cost-related Tasks:By automating operational tasks and managing resources effectively, AWS Systems Manager helps reduce operational costs and improves the cost-efficiency of your cloud environment.

9. Integration with Other AWS Services

  • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config:AWS Systems Manager integrates with other AWS services like CloudWatch for monitoring, CloudTrail for auditing, and AWS Config for tracking configuration changes. This integration provides a seamless management experience.

Ryval-X Expertise with AWS Systems Manager

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS Systems Manager across various use cases, including:

  • Infrastructure Automation:: Automate common operational tasks like patch management, backups, and software deployments.
  • Compliance and Security: Ensure your resources comply with security policies and best practices.
  • Configuration Management: Maintain consistency across your AWS resources by enforcing desired configurations.
  • Troubleshooting and Remediation: Quickly identify and fix issues across your infrastructure using a combination of automation and real-time insights.

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AWS Service Delivery – Lambda

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS Lambda

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We are thrilled to announce that Ryval-X has achieved the AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS Lambda. This significant milestone was earned after passing a rigorous technical validation conducted by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, who are experts in AWS Lambda. They thoroughly tested our case studies and architecture models, ensuring that all best practices were meticulously implemented.

Our team is dedicated to helping organizations of any size redesign their legacy applications or release new ones by leveraging AWS Lambda and other serverless services. By doing so, we make applications easier to scale and faster to develop, fostering innovation.

What our AWS Lambda Service Delivery Achievement means for our Customers

As an AWS Lambda Partner, our recent AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS Lambda brings several benefits to our customers:
  • Expertise and Assurance: Our designation signifies that we have met AWS’s high standards and have been validated by AWS Partner Solutions Architects. This assurance of quality gives our customers confidence in our ability to deliver top-notch serverless solutions.
  • Advanced Services and Tools: We provide our customers with advanced services and tools to help build or migrate their solutions to a microservices architecture using serverless computing. This means that customers can focus on developing their applications without worrying about provisioning or managing servers.
  • Scalability and Efficiency: Leveraging AWS Lambda allows applications to automatically scale in response to incoming requests. This ensures that our customers’ applications can handle varying levels of demand efficiently, providing a seamless user experience.
  • Faster Development Cycles: By adopting serverless architecture with AWS Lambda, our customers can benefit from shorter development cycles. This enables faster time-to-market for new features and applications, fostering innovation and keeping them ahead of the competition.
  • Cost Optimization: AWS Lambda’s pay-as-you-go pricing model ensures that customers only pay for the compute time they consume. This can significantly reduce infrastructure costs compared to traditional server-based models, providing better cost efficiency.
  • Focus on Core Business: With serverless computing, our customers can offload the management of infrastructure to us, allowing them to focus more on their core business functions and strategic initiatives.

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to run code without the need to provision or manage servers. Here’s what makes AWS Lambda stand out:

  • Serverless Execution: Execute code in response to events such as changes in data, shifts in system state, or user actions, without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.
  • Cost Efficiency: Pay only for the compute time you consume, with no charges incurred when your code is not running. This pay-as-you-go model can lead to significant cost savings compared to traditional server-based solutions.
  • Faster Time to Market: Eliminate the need for server provisioning and management, AWS Lambda allows for quicker deployment of applications, enabling faster innovation and time to market.

Ryval-X Expertise with AWS Lambda

Our team has extensive experience and a proven track record in implementing AWS Lambda across various use cases, including:

Data Processing:

  • File Processing: Automated the processing of files uploaded to Amazon S3, such as generating thumbnails from images, transcoding videos, or extracting metadata.
  • Stream Processing: Processed real-time streaming data from sources like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka to analyze data, generate alerts, or store results.

Web and Mobile Backends:

  • API Gateway: Created robust, scalable backends for web and mobile applications using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda, handling API requests, performing business logic, and interacting with databases.
  • Authentication and Authorization: Implemented user authentication and authorization mechanisms, including token validation and user session management.

Event-Driven Computing:

  • Event Processing: Triggered AWS Lambda functions in response to events from other AWS services like Amazon S3, DynamoDB, or CloudWatch, enabling seamless event-driven workflows.
  • Notification Services: Send notifications through services like Amazon SNS or Amazon SES based on specific triggers or conditions in your application.

Scheduled Tasks:

  • Cron Jobs: Used AWS Lambda in combination with Amazon CloudWatch Events to run scheduled tasks such as cleanup scripts, data synchronization, or periodic reporting.

Real-Time Data Transformation:

  • Data Transformation: Transform and filter real-time data streams, enriching data before storing it in a database or data warehouse, ensuring the data is ready for analysis and reporting.

Serverless Web Applications:

  • Single-Page Applications: Built and deployed serverless web applications that interact with AWS Lambda functions via API Gateway, eliminating the need for traditional server hosting.
  • Static Website Hosting: Hosted static websites on Amazon S3 and use AWS Lambda for dynamic content generation and backend logic.

Security Automation:

  • Security Compliance: Automated security compliance checks and remediation actions in response to specific triggers, helping to maintain a secure and compliant environment.
  • Monitoring and Alerts: Monitored security events and trigger alerts or automated responses to potential security incidents.

Backup and Recovery:

  • Automated Backups: Created automated backup processes for databases and file systems, ensuring reliable and consistent data protection.
  • Disaster Recovery: Implemented disaster recovery workflows to automatically restore data and services in the event of a failure.

Machine Learning and AI:

  • Inference and Prediction: Used AWS Lambda to run machine learning inference and prediction models in response to data changes or user inputs, enabling real-time AI capabilities.

Our expertise ensures that we can help organizations of any size leverage AWS Lambda to transform their IT infrastructure, achieve greater scalability, and accelerate their development cycles.

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AWS Advanced Tier Services

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Ryval-X achieves AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status

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We are proud to announce that AWS recognized Ryval-X as an Advanced Tier Partner.

The AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status is a valuable accreditation granted to APN members with established expertise in AWS ecosystem technologies, a strong team of trained and certified technical professionals, and an outstanding proven record of developing cloud-native applications and managing the cloud infrastructure to deliver end-to-end solutions.

At Ryval-X we see AWS as our strategic partner and most of our customers rely on AWS Cloud to run mission-critical production workloads to serve a global audience and customer base. Ryval-X team of AWS-certified professionals trained within the Ryval-X Cloud Academy design, deploy and operate applications and infrastructure on AWS for global clients. They guide clients in streamlining their AWS environment and leveraging the latest AWS features and services.

Our goal is to provide customers with the best in class cloud consulting by bringing our expertise and best practices, whether for Migration, Optimization, or Management to fully leverage the robust AWS Cloud platform. Achieving an Advanced Tier partnership with AWS proves our extensive experience and knowledge of AWS.

  • Our Cloud engineers has extensive experience working with AWS technologies and we offer our clients expert advice and solutions on:
  • Cost reductions and streamlined resource usage through optimized cloud infrastructure
  • Enhanced application performance and improved user experience
  • Increased business agility with rapid deployment and seamless integrations
  • Robust security measures, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks
  • Competitive advantage in the digital landscape, driving growth and success
  • By becoming an AWS Advanced Tier Partner we will be able to provide these benefits to our customers,
  • Help customers on funding programs that AWS offers
  • Provide tools to make the cloud journey hassle-free
  • Direct access to AWS support and resolve the issues quickly

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