{"id":594234,"date":"2025-04-28T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/well-architected-review-of-umas-cloud-environment\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:51:23","slug":"well-architected-review-of-umas-cloud-environment","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-se\/success-story\/well-architected-review-of-umas-cloud-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-Architected Review of UMA\u2019s Cloud Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About UMA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMA (Unify, Manage, Assist) is a PropTech business founded in Halifax, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. They now have teams based in Belfast, London, Washington DC and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMA\u2019s mission focus was developed in response to the need for workplaces and campuses to innovate and digitally transform to improve user experiences, collaboration, reduce real estate costs and carbon footprint. Their open platform allows the connection of existing workplace technology such as audio-visual and video collaboration equipment and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to provide additional data sources such as Air Quality and energy management linked to occupancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubertasconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UMA-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-challenge\">The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMA\u2019s platform has been built from the ground-up to be Cloud-native, embracing Cloud best-practice design principals such as micro-service architecture, serverless technologies, CI\/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to develop a secure, resilient and scalable platform for their Customers. UMA engaged Ubertas Consulting, an Advanced AWS Consulting Partner and Well-Architected Framework Program Partner, because they wished to advance their platform even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following an initial Well-Architected Review of UMA\u2019s Cloud environment, Ubertas Consulting worked closely with UMA\u2019s DevOps Team to enable them to adopt more Cloud-native practices within their application; the two teams worked collaboratively to understand where the greatest benefit could be sought technically, whilst ensuring that all design decisions were cost optimised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubertasconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UMA-Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As a result of their engagement with Ubertas Consulting, UMA were able to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Migrate from PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora, a Cloud-native database engine, which provides higher like-for-like throughput, increased scalability, asynchronous crash recovery, improved fail- over times, and increased data durability \u2013 all improving the resilience of UMA\u2019s service further for their Customers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand how to adopt Cloud-native queueing systems within their application architecture, enabling them to improve resilience whilst reducing their queuing infrastructure costs by over 98%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhance their proactive response capabilities using real-time metrics and log data, whilst optimising their monthly expenditure in these areas for maximum cost efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubertasconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UMA-Hero.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were looking for a partner to work with to assist with best practices within our AWS Environment, Devoteam made the process simple from day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dean O\u2019Meara,Solutions Architect at UMA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xxx-large);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--large);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xxx-large);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--large)\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-main-background-color has-background-dim-70 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-7229 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Surfer-001-copy.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-ea3f966a wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d064aeaa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-your-success-starts-here\"><strong>Your Success Starts Here<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--wp--preset--color--base);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:2px;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-large);flex-basis:70%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9819b1f7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small)\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Partner with Devoteam to leverage award-winning tech expertise, agile execution, and a culture of continuous learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-se\/get-in-touch\/\">Get in touch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About UMA UMA (Unify, Manage, Assist) is a PropTech business founded in Halifax, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. 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