Case Study: Olive and Olive Achieves 99.7% Platform Availability and 52% Cost Reduction Through AWS Managed Services Migration

About the Company

Olive and Olive operates a digital business aggregation platform that facilitates real-time trade between Nigerian small and medium enterprises and international markets. The company works across multiple sectors including Information Technology, Power and Green Energy, eCommerce, food and hygiene distribution, medical services, and advisory consulting.

Customer Challenge

Olive and Olive's legacy on-premises infrastructure suffered from frequent downtime during peak trading periods, particularly during seasonal harvest cycles when transaction volumes spiked by up to 300%. Manual compliance reporting processes for multiple regulatory jurisdictions consumed substantial engineering resources and introduced delays in market entry for new trading partnerships.

The on-premises setup lacked the geographic distribution needed to provide consistent low-latency access across their multi-country operational footprint, impacting user experience and transaction completion rates. Fixed infrastructure costs were becoming prohibitive as the business grew, with significant capital expenditure required for capacity planning that often resulted in either over-provisioning during low-demand periods or performance degradation during peak usage.

Partner's Solution

Digitspot Solutions designed and implemented a comprehensive AWS managed services solution through a phased approach that minimised business disruption:

Multi-Region Architecture Implementation: Deployed the primary platform infrastructure in the eu-west-1 region with automated failover capabilities across three availability zones and cross-region backup strategies for disaster recovery.

Auto-Scaling Trade Processing Engine: Implemented Amazon ECS with Application Load Balancers to handle dynamic transaction volumes, automatically scaling compute resources based on real-time demand to accommodate seasonal spikes of up to 300% without manual intervention.

Automated Compliance and Reporting Framework: Built serverless compliance workflows using AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon S3 to automate regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions, generating real-time compliance dashboards and automated audit trails.

Managed Database and Analytics Platform: Migrated transaction data to Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ deployment for high availability, including automated backup strategies and point-in-time recovery capabilities.

Comprehensive Security and Monitoring: Deployed AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS CloudTrail for continuous security monitoring, with Amazon CloudWatch providing real-time operational metrics. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit using AWS Key Management Service.

Partner Support Services

• 24/7 monitoring and incident response with guaranteed 15-minute response time for critical alerts
• Automated patch management and security updates across all AWS resources
• Monthly cost optimisation reviews using AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor
• Quarterly disaster recovery testing and business continuity validation
• Continuous security posture management with weekly vulnerability assessments
• Performance tuning and capacity planning based on seasonal trade volume patterns
• Compliance reporting automation and regulatory change management
• Infrastructure as Code management using AWS CloudFormation for consistent deployments

Results and Benefits

• Achieved 99.7% platform availability over the 18-month engagement, including two full seasonal peak cycles with zero transaction-failure incidents
• Reduced mean time to recovery from 6 hours to 20 minutes through automated CloudWatch alarms and runbook automation
• Decreased infrastructure costs by 52% through rightsizing, reserved instances, and elimination of over-provisioned on-premises hardware
• Improved transaction processing speed by 60% with auto-scaling handling seasonal volume spikes without performance degradation
• Reduced compliance reporting time from 2 weeks per quarter to 4 hours through automated workflows
• Expanded active market coverage from 2 to 5 African countries within 6 months of completing the migration
• Achieved 99.99% data durability through automated backup strategies and cross-region replication

"The AWS managed services migration has transformed our ability to serve our customers across Africa. We've eliminated the infrastructure headaches that were holding us back and can now focus entirely on growing our trade facilitation business." — Chief Technology Officer, Olive and Olive

About the Partner

Digitspot Solutions is a leading AWS Managed Service Provider specialising in cloud migration and managed operations for enterprise clients across Africa. With deep expertise in AWS services and a proven track record of successful digital transformations, Digitspot Solutions delivers comprehensive managed services that enable businesses to achieve operational excellence, cost optimisation, and accelerated growth.