Infrastructure

All of our products run on top of Amazon’s AWS Infrastructure Resources. AWS operates the private cloud infrastructure that we use to provision a variety of basic computing resources such as processing and storage. The AWS infrastructure includes the facilities, network, and hardware as well as some operational software (e.g., host OS, virtualization software, etc.) that support the provisioning and use of these resources. The AWS infrastructure, as well as SASSIE and Athena, is designed and managed according to security best practices as well as a variety of security compliance standards. As an SurfMerchants customer, you can be assured that you’re building web architectures on top of some of the most secure computing infrastructure in the world.

The SASSIE and ATHENA systems are built using industry-standard open-source tools, including a Linux- based operating system, the Apache web server, MySQL and Postgres SQL database system, and PHP programming language. This combination helps to provide a stable and secure environment for our Application (and your data). We use a combination of Open, Federal and Amazon best practices as well as follow PCI compliance guidelines for our security procedures and policies, which are reviewed on a quarterly basis.