Los Cinco Soles is a Mexican company with more than thirty-five years in the retail market within the tourism sector.
The unique cultural experience that Los Cinco Soles offers includes a catalog featuring not only Mexican handicrafts such as Talavera pottery, alebrijes, and jewelry, but also other lines like “mexicatessen” (chocolates, sauces, sweets, etc.) and Mexican silver. Today, Los Cinco Soles operates 27 stores across the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
A few years ago, Los Cinco Soles recognized the need for an effective, immediate solution to the problem it was facing at the time: security. The company needed a simple, reliable, and easy-to-use tool that would allow it to back up its virtual machines against any disaster-recovery incident.
Considering these scenarios, the company began its search and ultimately chose Amazon Web Services as the most reliable alternative—one that gave it the control and confidence it needed to secure its virtual machines with maximum flexibility.
At Los Cinco Soles, the team was well aware of this reality and of the clear vulnerability in the security of their virtual machines.
The possibility of being affected by ransomware attacks through unauthorized access to the company's systems—or even contingencies caused by natural disasters in the Mexican Caribbean—were among the threats they needed to address with a security strategy that would give them a contingency and disaster-recovery plan.
“IVCISA has always been there for us to help solve this mission-critical problem. It has truly been a source of support that allows those of us in the systems area to sleep a little more soundly.”
IVCISA reviewed the AWS infrastructure to determine the best solution—one that would establish effective mechanisms and keep the company's environments from being compromised. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery proved to be the cost-effective and scalable solution that fit the business's needs, allowing the company to ensure business continuity and minimize data loss through continuous, automated replication.
Time has passed since they began searching for an alternative to meet their needs, but Los Cinco Soles sums up the results achieved with Amazon Web Services and IVCISA in two words: “very good.”
According to the company, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery was the cost-effective and scalable solution. It has given them the peace of mind of having a continuously updated backup of all their mission-critical virtual machines, along with IVCISA's support managing their cloud infrastructure.
Los Cinco Soles now has a disaster-recovery plan and strategy that gives it the peace of mind of permanently maintaining an up-to-date backup of all its mission-critical virtual machines.
