{"id":594133,"date":"2025-04-28T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/hidden-strength-launched-their-mental-health-app-with-aws\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:27:31","slug":"hidden-strength-launched-their-mental-health-app-with-aws","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-nl\/success-story\/hidden-strength-launched-their-mental-health-app-with-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Strength Launched Their Mental Health App with AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>About Hidden Strength<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hidden Strength<\/strong><\/a> is a unique mental health platform for young people aged 13-24, offering meaningful support, advice and guidance in a safe, anonymous environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support is both peer-to-peer, and in the form of fully-qualified therapists available on demand using secure virtual environments. The platform also provides holistic mental well-being tools allowing the community to access a range of online education and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are the first mental health portal to build an online community that serves its users in keeping with their digital lives. Content provided by mental health experts aims to give young people the tools to deal with life\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The app provides teenagers and young people with access to counselling from professionals, as well as self-help articles and videos from verified sources and social media influencers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had already started to develop the app using technologies within the AWS ecosystem, but with a high-profile launch event and addressable market of 9 million young people, they wanted to guarantee it could scale to meet potential demand and be reliable in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the sensitive nature of the data handled within the app, Hidden Strength also wanted to ensure they met and complied with all relevant data security legislation and best practice to ensure young peoples\u2019 information was protected. Hidden Strength engaged with Devoteam in April 2021 with a goal of delivering a secure and scalable production platform to ensure a successful launch event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following a review of Hidden Strength\u2019s existing AWS environment and app, Devoteam worked to design a Well-Architected AWS infrastructure that could be delivered in phases within a tight timescale, to provide the minimum viable product for their staggered launch events without compromising on security or reliability.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planning resulted in a set of initial designs and an approach to the project which delivered a functional platform to Hidden Strength in time for their initial launch event, as well as continuous knowledge transfer to the Hidden Strength team enabling them to continue to refine and develop their infrastructure in a Well-Architected manner as their app evolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delivery of the project was a joint team exercise with clear lines of responsibility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n