Healthcare · HIPAA

rXperius runs a HIPAA-aligned healthcare platform on AWS, resilient from day one

  • 100%IaC-managed
  • Multi-AZproduction resilience
  • HIPAAaligned by design

rXperius provides strategic drug-development guidance to small and emerging pharma companies engaging the FDA, with first-in-class mobile apps that capture real-time patient feedback to inform product performance.

The challenge

rXperius needed to modernize and scale its infrastructure for a HIPAA-regulated workload that couldn't tolerate downtime. Patient feedback and drug-development insights flow through the platform in real time; an outage means missed data, broken workflows for pharma clients, and a compliance posture that has to defend itself in writing.

The constraint was building a foundation that was secure, resilient, and easy to operate, without trading speed for safety, and without leaving compliance as a "later" task.

Our approach

We designed the AWS foundation around the AWS Security Reference Architecture, with HIPAA-aligned controls and resilience patterns embedded from the first deployment rather than retrofitted.

  1. Multi-account AWS Organization with segmented control, plus AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO) federated with the customer's G-Suite identity provider for short-lived, audited access.
  2. Amazon ECS with AWS Application Load Balancer for scalable, content-routed deployment of containerized backend services, removing manual scaling cycles.
  3. Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless for resilient database services that scale with load and recover from incidents automatically.
  4. Amazon CloudFront for low-latency content delivery across geographies, paired with Amazon VPC to keep critical workloads in a private, isolated network.
  5. Centralized security and observability with AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon CloudWatch — continuous insight into performance and security posture, no manual log stitching.
  6. Encryption at rest and in transit, with automated failover and real-time data replication built into the architecture so recovery isn't a runbook step.

The outcome

The platform runs on a HIPAA-aligned AWS foundation that was secure and resilient on day one, not after a phase-two hardening pass.

High availability and quick recovery from incidents are built into the architecture — multi-AZ deployments, automated failover, and continuous replication — so a regional disruption never becomes a customer-facing outage.

rXperius can iterate on new product features and patient-feedback workflows without having to revisit the security or compliance baseline each time. The foundation absorbs the change.

Built with

  • Amazon ECS
  • Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS Application Load Balancer
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS GuardDuty
  • AWS Security Hub
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS IAM Identity Center

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