Hosting

Commflo has built a Software-as-a-Service for community banks and commercial mortgage lending. The on-demand service is available as a shared subscription for little upfront cost and “pay as you go”. It’s like having your own IT department.

When constructing Commflo Cloud, the team considered legacy hosting providers such as RackSpace, and investigated the possibility of building our own server farm in one of the premier data centers such as Peak 10. But compared to the traditional options, we chose AWS. AWS services were the best match for us providing both on-demand compute power and on-demand storage.

We use Amazon EC2 compute instances to form our end to end system. This includes our load balancing systems, web delivery platforms, monitoring systems, and database systems. Our customers can easily grow their compute requirements with the click of a button. The complexities of servers, operating systems and clustering are a thing of the past.

We use Amazon S3 to provide near real time backups of our database servers as well as store our system images and application deployment packages.

Amazon Web Services have allowed Commflo to build a system that can take advantage of “on the fly” computing power to reduce the friction of scaling a web application in a nearly hands-free environment. We feel this is an advantage we could only gain through cloud computing.”

AWS provides Commflo with flexibility and speed. It allows us to think of new ways of providing our services that are not bounded by physical data centers or capital expense budgets.