Electoral Umpire: Building a Secure, Transparent, and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
Industry: Government / Public Sector
Challenge
The Electoral Umpire needed a secure, transparent, and highly available environment to host critical electoral systems, including voter registration, election results collation, and transparency dashboards.
Its on-premise infrastructure suffered from downtime, limited scalability, and security challenges, especially during high-traffic election periods.
Solution
Descasio designed and deployed a secure AWS environment using:
- AWS CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Amazon EC2 + Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for scalable compute
- Amazon S3 + KMS for secure data storage
- Amazon VPC with public/private subnets and NAT gateways for isolated workloads
- AWS CloudTrail & CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and auditing
- Amazon SNS & SQS for real-time messaging and workflow decoupling
Results
- 100% uptime during election periods
- 40% reduction in downtime vs. on-prem systems
- Real-time visibility and proactive monitoring
- Immutable audit trails increased transparency and trust
- 35% cost savings via pay-as-you-go model
Lessons Learned
Early planning for IAM and KMS policies is crucial to balancing strong security with operational flexibility in sensitive institutions.
