Protecting course content while cutting streaming costs

Sahaba Edu delivered interactive video lectures from a single server, creating high bandwidth costs, limited protection for course content, and material security gaps.

CloudVests aligned the platform to AWS best practices, moved media delivery to a global content-delivery network with secure access controls, adopted a managed database, and remediated the security findings identified during review.

Course media was separated from the application runtime and delivered from private Amazon S3 storage through CloudFront. Signed access controls and AWS WAF policies protected paid content and reduced direct exposure of the origin.

Amazon Aurora replaced the unmanaged database layer, with KMS-backed encryption and CloudWatch monitoring applied across the delivery path.

The platform now distributes video efficiently at the edge while controlling access to paid content and maintaining a stronger security baseline.

The edge architecture reduced bandwidth pressure on the core application while making content authorization, database availability, and security monitoring explicit platform responsibilities.