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A Brazilian law firm specialized in Intellectual Property, with 14 partners and over 60 professionals supporting clients across advisory, prosecution, and litigation. The firm traces its roots to a pioneering IP practice with activities dating back to 1919, and has since grown into a structured, full-service IP operation.
A notable part of the firm's operating model is its investment in internal systems and continuity: the firm maintains and continuously improves its database and IT infrastructure, including an internally built system containing trademarks and patents filed and registered with the Brazilian PTO — enabling access even when public systems are unavailable.
For a law firm, cloud decisions translate directly into business risk and service continuity. The firm needed an AWS foundation that supported three priorities: stronger governance over how the environment is managed, tighter control over what is exposed to the internet, and ongoing cost discipline as data volumes grow.
As workloads expanded, the firm wanted clearer structure around identity and access, centralized audit visibility, and a network posture aligned with the expectations of a high-trust industry. In parallel, the firm needed operational patterns that reduce friction for change — so updates can happen predictably without creating avoidable downtime. Storage costs were also a concern, particularly for data that must be retained but is not accessed frequently, where a better tiering approach could reduce recurring spend.
Elevata implemented a governance and security baseline on AWS designed to make the firm's environment easier to manage, safer to operate, and more predictable over time.
The work started with governance using AWS Control Tower, establishing a structured baseline and guardrails for how the environment is organized. For access management, Elevata implemented IAM Identity Center, centralizing how user access is administered. Auditability was strengthened through AWS CloudTrail, improving visibility into account activity and supporting internal and external audit requirements.
At the network layer, Elevata reviewed and tightened security group rules, removed unused resources, and reduced broad public exposure patterns. A key architectural improvement was placing EC2 workloads that previously had direct public IP exposure behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). This creates a controlled entry point for traffic and reduces direct exposure of backend instances. It also improves operational flexibility: the firm can update or replace instances behind the load balancer without changing the service endpoint.
To increase resilience, Elevata configured this load balancer approach across multiple Availability Zones, reducing dependency on a single zone. Finally, Elevata implemented S3 lifecycle policies to align storage tiers with access patterns, reducing spend on data that must be retained but does not need "hot" storage.
This engagement strengthened the firm's ability to operate a cloud environment with the discipline expected in a legal practice — where continuity, control, and risk management matter as much as functionality.
From a business standpoint, the most direct outcome was reduced operational risk. Centralized governance and identity management improved how access is controlled and reviewed, while audit logging strengthened visibility for compliance and internal accountability. Network hardening and the move to a load balancer model reduced unnecessary exposure, supporting a safer posture for workloads that underpin internal systems and client-facing operations.
The changes also improved service continuity and change management. With a stable entry point in front of compute resources, the firm gained a deployment pattern that supports safer updates: backend instances can be rotated or replaced without changing the public endpoint, and scaling becomes possible without redesigning the front door. Multi-Availability Zone configuration increases resilience by reducing the likelihood that a localized infrastructure issue disrupts availability.
On cost discipline, storage lifecycle management introduced a more sustainable model for retention-heavy environments: data can be kept securely while reducing the recurring cost of storing infrequently accessed content in high-cost tiers. Over time, this supports better budgeting and a healthier run-rate as data volumes grow.
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