Use case
Strategic Resource Allocation and Cost Optimization on AWS Using Terraform
- Pruthviraj Rajput
About the Customer
Agrivon is a global technology company building the first financial super app tailored for Africa’s agriculture industry. The app serves as a one-stop solution for agribusinesses, offering tools for money management, digital payments, and access to financing. Agrivon uses advanced machine learning algorithms to provide personalized financial products, empowering agribusinesses to make informed financial decisions and unlock their potential.
Customer Challenge
The existing cloud infrastructure at Agrivon faced inefficiencies and inconsistencies:
- Load balancers were individually configured for each ECS service, leading to resource wastage and increased operational complexity.
- Deployment strategies varied across ECS services, with a mix of rolling updates and blue/green deployments, increasing risks during rollouts.
- ECS clusters were created on a per-service basis instead of being organized by environment, limiting scalability and complicating management.
- Resource management lacked standardization, resulting in inefficiencies and higher operational overhead.
Solution
IAMOPS implemented several infrastructure optimizations to address these challenges:
1) Consolidation of Load Balancers:
- A single load balancer was configured with host-based routing, significantly reducing the number of load balancers.
- This approach simplified management and enhanced resource efficiency
2) Standardization of Deployments:
- All ECS services were standardized to use blue/green deployments, ensuring consistent and reliable rollouts.
3) Environment-Based Clusters:
- The ECS cluster architecture was restructured to be environment-based rather than service-based, improving scalability and resource allocation.
4) Terraform Adoption:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices were implemented using Terraform, enabling automated, consistent, and efficient resource provisioning and management.
Results & Benefits
By implementing these optimizations in the dev environment, Agrivon observed significant improvements in resource management and cost savings. The solution enhanced operational efficiency, standardized deployments, and reduced resource wastage, resulting in measurable benefits:
- Simplified Infrastructure Management: Consolidating load balancers through host-based routing reduced complexity and improved efficiency, achieving an 80% reduction in the number of load balancers.
- Improved Deployment Consistency: Standardizing ECS services to use blue/green deployments enhanced reliability and facilitated seamless rollbacks. This automation improved deployment times by 40%, ensuring consistent and predictable rollouts.
- Enhanced Scalability: Restructuring clusters to be environment-based streamlined resource allocation and management, reducing cluster management efforts by 50%.
- Cost Savings: The adoption of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) eliminated redundant configurations and automated resource provisioning. These improvements resulted in a 30% reduction in resource costs.
About IAMOPS
IAMOPS is a full DevOps suite company that supports technology companies to achieve intense production readiness.
Our mission is to ensure that our clients’ infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are scalable, mitigate failure points, optimize performance, ensure uptime, and minimize costs.
Our DevOps suite includes DevOps Core, NOC 24/7, FinOps, QA Automation, and DevSecOps to accelerate overall exponential growth.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner and Reseller, we focus on two key pillars: Professionalism by adhering to best practices and utilizing advanced technologies, Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.
