Use case

Seamless Migration from ECS to EKS for Improved Scalability and Control

About the Customer

Illuminate Tech is a leading provider of advanced data analytics solutions. Their platform supports businesses in turning raw data into actionable insights, helping companies make better decisions faster. With a global client base, SeemoreData’s infrastructure supports high availability, scalability, and performance to meet the demands of its data-centric applications.

Customer Challenge

Illuminate Tech’s backend application, built using NestJS, was running on Amazon ECS Fargate Spot instances. While the ECS setup provided cost savings through the use of Spot instances, it lacked the flexibility and control required for more complex deployments. The company faced challenges in managing its growing microservices architecture and required a more robust orchestration solution that could facilitate smoother scaling, provide better deployment control, and optimize overall application performance. If not addressed, these challenges could lead to inefficiencies in scaling, manual interventions during peak loads, and possible performance degradation, which would impact customer experience and operational costs.

Solution

To address these challenges, IAMOPS migrated Illuminate Tech’s application infrastructure from Amazon ECS to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The migration process included creating a custom Helm chart to efficiently deploy microservices within the EKS cluster, allowing for better control over deployments and scaling operations.

IAMOPS also implemented IAM roles integrated with Kubernetes service accounts for enhanced security, ensuring fine-grained access control in line with best practices. Additional AWS services, including GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), were leveraged to bolster the security framework.

For cost efficiency, the staging environment was deployed on Spot instances, balancing performance needs with cost savings. The application also benefited from Amazon’s Application Load Balancer (ALB) and CloudFront, which enhanced availability and performance by distributing traffic efficiently and improving content delivery to users worldwide.

Throughout the migration, IAMOPS provided ongoing support, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption. This included pre-migration assessments and post-migration monitoring to identify any potential issues and optimize the system for peak performance.

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Results & Benefits

The migration to Amazon EKS resulted in significant improvements in scalability, flexibility, and security:

  • Enhanced Flexibility: Kubernetes provided granular control over containerized applications, streamlining deployment and scaling processes.
  • Improved Scalability: EKS’s auto-scaling capabilities allowed Illuminate Tech’s platform to handle fluctuating workloads seamlessly without manual intervention.
  • Increased Availability: ALB and CloudFront improved both the availability and performance of Illuminate Tech’s applications, leading to a superior user experience.
  • Cost Efficiency: The use of Spot instances, especially in the staging environment, contributed to significant cost savings without compromising on performance.
  • Security: AWS services like Guard Duty, Security Hub, and WAF ensured comprehensive security monitoring and threat protection.

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, and Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.

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