Infojini: Securing a High-Volume Government Platform
We implemented critical infrastructure-level protections and caching to rescue a US government contract platform from severe automated scraping attacks—reducing page response times from over 2 minutes to under 1 second in just 48 hours.
Visit Infojini WebsiteThe Challenge: Automated Scraping & Traffic Overload
A US government contract platform providing public vendor details and RFCs was experiencing severe downtime. During a targeted traffic surge, repeated automated requests to a heavily accessed page caused the application server to become completely overwhelmed.
- Automated scraping activity caused page responses to take over 2 minutes, leading to eventual server unavailability.
- The underlying API was inefficiently fetching an entire 6,000-record dataset in a single call despite frontend pagination.
- CloudFront caching was not enabled for the affected content, meaning all repeat requests directly hit the origin infrastructure.
- The client's strict governance policies dictated that the core AWS environment could not be replaced, requiring optimization of existing assets.
The Solution: Layered Edge Protection & Caching
Rather than simply throwing more server compute capacity at the problem, we developed a holistic edge-protection strategy to filter malicious traffic and drastically reduce origin load.
CloudFront Caching
Enabled edge caching so identical requests bypass the EC2 origin server entirely, virtually eliminating unnecessary database processing.
AWS WAF & Rate Limiting
Introduced application-layer protection and strict rate limits, alongside identifying and blocking problematic bot IP ranges.
API Optimization
Recommended and mapped out proper server-side API pagination to drastically reduce network transfer and memory consumption.
Before vs After: System Resilience
By treating the root cause rather than just the symptom, we delivered massive architectural improvements without inflating compute costs.
Page Response Time
Origin Server Load
Automated Bot Traffic
Business Impact Summary
Immediate Availability Restored platform stability within 2 days, ensuring the public could access vital government data without interruption.
Infrastructure Efficiency CloudFront caching and rate limiting effectively shielded the EC2 origin and MySQL database from heavy traffic spikes.
Enhanced Security AWS WAF and precise IP blocking neutralized the malicious scraping attacks and fortified the platform against future threats.
Cost-Effective Resolution Delivered a complete, highly resilient architecture without the need to artificially inflate AWS compute costs through forced auto-scaling.
Technology Stack
Platforms and tools utilized to secure and optimize the government infrastructure.
Cloud & Edge Delivery
Security & Control
Compute & Database
