In this case study: A prominent Southeast Asian tech company, offering ride-hailing, food delivery, and financial services, serves millions of users across multiple countries. With an ever-expanding user base, the company needed a robust solution to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements while maintaining control over vast amounts of personal user data.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Company: Leading Southeast Asian Ride-Sharing Platform
Industry: Ride-hailing, Food Delivery, and Financial Services
Challenge: Ensure compliance with Decree 53, a law which requires Vietnamese customer data to be stored locally.
Solution: Cloudian HyperStore licensed via AWS Marketplace, deployed on six servers at a local Cloudian service provider in Vietnam.
Key Benefits:
- S3 Compatibility: Seamless integration with the company’s existing tools and cloud infrastructure.
- Data Sovereignty: Compliant with Decree 53, ensuring Vietnamese customer data remains stored within the country.
- Scalability: Effortless expansion from an initial 600TB to 1.2PB, accommodating future data growth.
- Cloud-Like Infrastructure: Delivered a flexible, cloud-like experience in an on-premises environment.
- Ease of Procurement: Purchased directly via AWS Marketplace for streamlined procurement.
- Security: Military-grade encryption and security protocols protect sensitive customer data.
CASE STUDY
Challenge: Achieving Compliance and Data Sovereignty
As part of its commitment to local data laws, the company faced the challenge of ensuring its user data was stored in compliance with Vietnam’s Decree 53, which mandates that personal data of Vietnamese citizens must be stored within the country. This presented a need for an infrastructure that delivered cloud-like benefits, yet ensured sovereign control over customer data, all while maintaining scalability and operational efficiency.
Solution: Cloudian HyperStore via AWS Marketplace
With the help of AWS, the company evaluated potential solutions and ultimately selected Cloudian HyperStore to address its storage and compliance needs. Cloudian software was deployed on six servers located in Vietnam at a local Cloudian service provider, ensuring data sovereignty for their Vietnamese customers. The software was licensed through the AWS Marketplace, providing the customer with a scalable, cloud-like storage infrastructure, designed to handle future growth. Initial capacity is set at 600TB, with an expected expansion to 1.2PB.
Why Cloudian Won:
- AWS Alignment: Cloudian’s close partnership with AWS provided seamless integration and ease of procurement via AWS Marketplace.
- S3 Compatibility: The company needed a solution compatible with the S3 API for ease of integration with existing tools.
- Sovereignty and Compliance: Cloudian HyperStore allowed for the placement of a sovereign S3 endpoint within Vietnam, ensuring compliance with Decree 53.
- Security: Cloudian’s military-grade security features ensured the safety of sensitive customer data.
- Multi-Tenancy & QoS Billing: Cloudian’s multi-tenancy and billing system enabled efficient management of multiple tenants and their associated workloads.
Results: Seamless Compliance and Future Scalability
By deploying Cloudian HyperStore, the ride-sharing platform achieved compliance with Decree 53, ensuring that all Vietnamese customer data is stored locally. The company also gained a scalable and flexible storage solution that can easily expand as data demands grow. The seamless AWS Marketplace integration made the procurement process simple and cost-effective.
Future Expansion
This deployment serves as the foundation for similar expansions in other countries where the platform operates. Over the next year, Cloudian expects to replicate this success across the company’s operations in five additional countries, further solidifying its data compliance and storage strategy.
Conclusion
With Cloudian HyperStore, this ride-sharing giant now operates a compliant, scalable, and secure private cloud for its Vietnamese user data, positioning the company for growth across Southeast Asia while maintaining strict adherence to local regulations. Cloudian’s flexible, cloud-like infrastructure and alignment with AWS ensure the company is well-prepared to meet its future data storage needs.
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