Mission Category: Citizen Services

Business Challenge

EWA needed to modernize and future-proof its GIS platform. Challenges included:

• Aging on-premises infrastructure
• Limited scalability for spatial workloads
• Lack of structured DR and resilience
• Need to align with Bahrain’s data residency requirements

AWS-Based Solution (Phase 1 – Discovery & Design)

ACME delivered:

• Full application & infra assessment
• Cloud readiness evaluation
• Gap analysis
• Target AWS architecture design using AWS WAF
• Migration roadmap for GIS workloads

Proposed Architecture

• Amazon EC2 → Scalable GIS compute
• Amazon RDS → Managed database
• Amazon EFS → Shared storage for GIS layers
• Multi-AZ for availability
• Standardized SMB access
• IAM, KMS, CloudTrail for security & governance

Outcomes

• Architecture approved and signed off
• Alignment with Bahrain regulatory requirements
• Clear roadmap for Phase 2 production migration
• Modern, resilient, scalable GIS design