Global Food Systems PlatformMission-Critical Cloud Infrastructure

Architected and deployed resilient, multi-region AWS infrastructure for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. This mission-critical platform tracks global food security data and requires 99.999% availability, strong security controls, and the ability to withstand unpredictable traffic spikes during global crises.

IndustryHumanitarian & Development
Duration3 Months
Primary TechnologyAWS & Terraform

The Challenge

Security & Compliance

The platform handles sensitive diplomatic data, requiring strict network isolation, end-to-end encryption, and adherence to UN data sovereignty/security standards.

Fragile Legacy Monoliths

Previous on-premise infrastructure suffered from frequent downtime during high-traffic reports, risking the timely delivery of critical aid data.

Global Latency

Field workers in remote regions experienced unusable load times, hampering their ability to upload field data in real-time.

Our Solution

01

Multi-Region Hub-Spoke

Designed a Transit Gateway network topology connecting multiple VPCs. This isolates production, staging, and management environments while allowing secure, peering-based communication.

02

Containerized Microservices

Migrated monolithic apps to Docker containers running on Amazon ECS Fargate. Implemented AWS App Mesh for observability and traffic shaping.

03

Immutable Infrastructure

Codified the entire environment using Terraform. This enables "Disaster Recovery as Code", allowing a full region rebuild in under 45 minutes.

System Architecture

Cloud Infrastructure Overlay

Public Ingress

Secure Edge
WAF & ALB

Protection & Balancing

CloudFront

CDN

App Layer

Container Compute
ECS Fargate

Microservices

App Mesh

Service Mesh

Data Tier

Persistence
Aurora Postgres

Primary DB

Technologies & Services

Infrastructure

AWS VPC
Transit Gateway
Route53

Compute

Amazon ECS Fargate
ALB

IaC & CI/CD

Terraform
GitHub Actions
AWS CodePipeline

Database

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
ElastiCache

Key Outcomes

99.999% Uptime

Multi-AZ architecture with auto-healing capabilities ensured zero unplanned downtime during the first year of operation.

15-Min RTO

Drastically improved Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from 24 hours to 15 minutes using automated failover strategies.

Global Access

CloudFront edge caching reduced latency by 70% for users in remote field locations in Africa and Asia.

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