Case Study: H&R Block improves cloud performance and security with AVM Consulting and AWS

H&R Block cuts recovery objectives to under an hour with AVM Consulting

H&R Block faced challenges with its largely virtualized infrastructure, which contained legacy applications leading to suboptimal performance. A specific consumer group service was underperforming and lacked the elastic scalability needed for fluctuating demand. As a financial services company, H&R Block also required comprehensive data security for its cloud solution. They engaged AVM Consulting Inc to address these issues.

AVM Consulting Inc migrated the internal API Gateway and consumer group service to AWS using Terraform for infrastructure as code. The solution prioritized security by implementing the principle of least-privilege permissions and ensuring high-standard data encryption both in transit and at rest. This approach minimized the blast radius and successfully drove the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) to under an hour for H&R Block.

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