A healthcare SMB providing a cloud-based platform for vendor credentialing and surgical workflow management partnered with Dualboot Partners to modernize its legacy application on AWS.
The goal was to achieve HIPAA compliance, improve scalability and reliability, and reduce operational overhead while enhancing data security.

The platform enables hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to manage vendor access, credential verification, and compliance through secure, cloud-based workflows integrated with leading healthcare systems.

As the client’s network of hospitals expanded, its monolithic, on-premise-inspired architecture could no longer keep up with growing traffic or evolving security requirements.

The environment suffered from instability, costly manual scaling, and inconsistent encryption practices that posed risks to protected health information (PHI).

Key challenges included:

• Limited scalability: Manual EC2 management caused slowdowns during vendor-login surges.
• Operational instability: Unoptimized infrastructure led to downtime during credentialing peaks.
• Integration barriers: Manual workflows made interoperability with third-party systems difficult.
• Compliance gaps: Lack of standardized encryption and access-control policies increased HIPAA exposure.

The client needed a modern, compliant, and automated AWS environment to ensure sustained reliability and security.

Dualboot Partners re-engineered the platform as a HIPAA-compliant, containerized microservices architecture on AWS, emphasizing resilience, cost efficiency, and observability.

Architecture Highlights

• • Amazon ECS (Fargate): Orchestrates APIs, front-end services, and background jobs with autoscaling and zero EC2 management.
  • Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL Multi-AZ): Ensures high-availability transactional storage with encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Amazon ElastiCache (Redis): Delivers rapid caching and queuing for credential-validation tasks.
  • Amazon SQS: Provides fault-tolerant, ordered messaging for asynchronous vendor-verification workflows.
  • Amazon S3: Secure storage for credential and audit documents with AES-256 encryption and lifecycle policies.
  • AWS Security Stack (IAM, WAF, KMS, Parameter Store): Implements least-privilege access, intrusion prevention, and encrypted secret management.
  • Amazon CloudWatch + Terraform IaC: Enable continuous monitoring, autoscaling, and standardized, auditable deployments.

The result was a fully containerized, secure AWS environment designed to meet HIPAA requirements and deliver predictable performance under variable workloads.

The modernization transformed the client’s legacy SaaS product into a scalable, compliant, and secure AWS-native solution.
The company can now serve larger healthcare networks with greater uptime, improved performance, and reduced compliance risk—positioning it for sustained growth in the healthcare technology market.

Amazon ECS (Fargate) | Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL Multi-AZ) | Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) | Amazon SQS | Amazon S3 | AWS IAM | AWS WAF | AWS KMS | Systems Manager Parameter Store | Amazon CloudWatch | Terraform IaC | GitHub Actions CI/CD

Dualboot Partners is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner that helps small and medium-sized businesses modernize applications, implement secure architectures, and accelerate digital transformation on AWS.
With more than 400 engineers across North and South America, Dualboot delivers modernization, AI, and data solutions that enable clients to achieve measurable business outcomes in the cloud.