Challenges
- Enable free-trial users to setup server on cloud rather than setting it up on-premise
- Allocate the instances to users without any delay
- Build a process to stop the free-trial after 30-days
- Build pages on Zoho for this workflow and integrate with their existing flow
- Add security through email verification since users would now be creating servers on cloud
Solutions
- Created a process using DynamoDB and AWS Lambda functions to create reserved trial instances and allocate to users when they sign up for free trial
- Setup a process to verify email using OTP created by a Lambda function
- Built Zoho pages to check user preference for cloud-hosted vs on-premise, email validation and displaying the instance details
- Used AWS SES to send email from AWS
- Built Lambda function to terminate/stop instances after 30-days
Tools & Technologies
AWS, ZOHO, Python
Key benefits
- Client is able to provide additional option for their trial users to use the service hosted on cloud, rather than downloading and setting up the software on their local environment
- Always maintain a pool of instances that can be allocated to the users as soon as they sign up (<5 secs)
- Currently this process is done by their support team, this automation will drastically reduce the support team’s involvement by >50%
