AWS Web App for the Real Estate Sector

About the client
Established in 2023, SeniorComps focuses on enhancing the quality and accessibility of data for senior housing and care properties. Their senior housing analytics platform empowers stakeholders to make quick and informed decisions through advanced market intelligence.
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Business Context
SeniorComps needed business intelligence software tailored to the senior housing industry that would provide quick access to property-level market data, or “comps.” It was expected to simplify the work for industry professionals, eliminating the need to gather data manually or purchase or exchange datasets. To obtain such a web app on AWS, the customer contacted Andersen as a professional Amazon AWS web app development vendor.
Challenges
From an Amazon AWS web application development perspective, the key challenges included:
- Transitioning a complex, newly built system from development into steady-state operation;
- Maintaining 24/7 availability and consistent performance;
- Implementing robust monitoring and incident response to minimize downtime risks;
- Ensuring ongoing compliance with healthcare data protection standards;
- Accommodating changing requirements and future feature enhancements;
- Performing ongoing bug fixes and handling minor change requests.
Project overview
With Andersen as their partner for AWS web app development for the real estate sector, SeniorComps obtained a crowdsourced data solution designed for B2B senior housing companies in the US that meets all the tech and business requirements in terms of analytics.
About the project
The project involved building a scalable, cloud-native web app on AWS, designed to ensure high availability, strong security, and consistent performance for end users. The solution leverages managed and serverless AWS services for traffic routing, content delivery, authentication, container orchestration, background processing, and reliable data storage. Comprehensive monitoring, automated scaling, secure access control, and integrated messaging enable operational stability, observability, and readiness for future growth.
App functionality
The major components delivered by Andersen include:
- Application Load Balancer for intelligent traffic routing, SSL termination, and high-availability access to app services;
- Amazon Cognito for secure user authentication, session management, and integration with identity providers;
- AWS Lambda for serverless background processing, automation tasks, and event-driven workflows;
- Amazon S3 for durable storage of app assets, static files, and media content;
- AWS Secrets Manager for encrypted storage and rotation of credentials, keys, and sensitive configuration parameters;
- Amazon CloudWatch for logging, metric collection, alerting, and end-to-end observability of the environment;
- Amazon CloudFront for global content delivery, optimized performance, and reduced latency for end users;
- Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR for managing containerized workloads with scalable, reliable deployments;
- Amazon RDS for managed, fault-tolerant relational databases with automated backups and monitoring;
- Amazon Route 53 for DNS management, domain routing, and health checks;
- Amazon SES and Amazon SNS for transactional emails, notifications, and event-based messaging across the app;
- AWS IAM for fine-grained access control, permission policies, and secure identity management within the AWS environment.
Solution
By leveraging Andersen’s AWS-based cloud architecture and managed services, the customer has achieved significant improvements in scalability, security, and operational efficiency:
- A highly resilient microservice infrastructure powered by Amazon ECS and ALB, ensuring stable performance under growing user load;
- Secure and compliant authentication through Amazon Cognito and AWS IAM, providing strong access control and protection of user data;
- Faster content delivery and reduced latency thanks to Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3, improving the end-user experience globally;
- Streamlined operations and faster troubleshooting through Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda automation, and event-driven notification flows built with Amazon SNS and Amazon SES;
- Enhanced platform security via AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager, ensuring encrypted communication and safe handling of sensitive credentials;
- Reliable data storage and high availability delivered by Amazon RDS with automated backups and monitoring.
These improvements together allow the customer to operate a stable, secure, and scalable cloud platform while relying on Andersen for efficient, continuous AWS-driven app operations and enhancements.
Project results
In the capacity of an Amazon AWS web app development vendor, Andersen has made it possible for the customer to achieve the following tangible and measurable results:
- 99.9% uptime of the platform, ensured by Amazon ECS-based containerization, ALB routing, and automated scaling;
- Significantly improved page load and content delivery speed through Amazon CloudFront caching and Amazon S3 optimization, resulting in a smoother user experience;
- Strengthened security posture, with Amazon Cognito authentication, AWS IAM roles, ACM certificates, and AWS Secrets Manager providing full compliance with modern security standards;
- Reduced operational overhead thanks to Amazon CloudWatch monitoring, automated alerts, and Lambda-driven maintenance tasks;
- Faster issue identification and troubleshooting, enabled by centralized logging and proactive event-based notifications via Amazon SNS and Amazon SES;
- Stable and reliable data storage with Amazon RDS, ensuring consistent app behavior during peak usage.
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