Use case
Streamlined AWS Infrastructure Migration for Cost and Performance Gains
- Miloni Patel
About the Customer
Glomaxia is a global company that provides solutions for international business expansion. With a mission to assist companies in positioning themselves as industry leaders, Glomaxia helps its clients enter new markets and achieve significant global growth. Their services empower businesses to increase sales and improve the accessibility of their products, all while maintaining a high standard of service delivery.
Customer Challenge
Glomaxia was facing several operational issues due to its Azure-based infrastructure. The challenges included:
- High operational costs, which negatively impacted overall profitability.
- Limited flexibility in management and operational processes, making day-to-day operations inefficient.
- Scaling difficulties, which restricted the company’s ability to meet increasing demands as the business grew.
- Security concerns around maintaining compliance and safeguarding sensitive data.
- The lack of application containerization with the existing .NET framework posed a significant issue. The legacy application was running on Windows, restricting portability and scalability, thus preventing full utilization of modern cloud practices like dynamic scaling and simplified deployments.
Without addressing these issues, Glomaxia risked continuing inefficiencies, increased operational costs, and potential security vulnerabilities, all of which would hinder their ability to support future business expansion and meet customer demands.
Solution
IAMOPS proposed migrating Glomaxia’s infrastructure from Azure to AWS to overcome these challenges. The solution encompassed several key components:
1) Application Containerization and Platform Migration:
- Containerization: The existing legacy .NET application was converted to run on Docker containers on Linux, reducing dependency on Windows-based environments.
- Rebuilding the Application: The .NET application was updated to .NET Core to ensure compatibility with Linux environments.
Creating Docker Images: The updated .NET Core application was packaged into Docker images for flexible and efficient deployment.
2) Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Terraform was employed to automate the provisioning of AWS resources, ensuring consistency, scalability, and manageability of the infrastructure.
3) Security Enhancements:
- AWS security services such as GuardDuty, AWS WAF, CloudTrail, ACM, and Security Hub were integrated for enhanced threat detection, data protection, and regulatory compliance.
4) Performance Optimization:
- AWS services such as ECS with Fargate, RDS for MSSQL, and ElastiCache for Redis were leveraged to optimize resource allocation and improve performance.
5) Cost Optimization:
- AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer were utilized to right-size resources, monitor usage, and establish cost controls.
6) CI/CD Workflow:
- Bitbucket Actions were implemented for automated build, test, and deployment pipelines, streamlining the development process.
7) Enhanced Monitoring:
- Tools like New Relic and CloudWatch were integrated to provide real-time monitoring and ensure system reliability with proactive issue resolution.
Semantic Release Workflow
Results & Benefits
The migration to AWS delivered significant benefits to Glomaxia:
- Cost Reduction: Glomaxia achieved a 30% reduction in operational costs by right-sizing resources and leveraging AWS spot instances.
- Performance Improvement: Application responsiveness increased by 25% due to optimized resource allocation and caching using ElastiCache.
- Improved Availability: With multi-AZ deployments, Glomaxia attained 99.99% uptime, ensuring high availability.
- Deployment Efficiency: Deployment times were reduced by 40% thanks to the implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Security: Glomaxia’s infrastructure became more secure with multi-layered protection and centralized logging.
- Scalability: AWS auto-scaling and load balancing enabled the company to scale efficiently to meet increasing demands.
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.
