Use case
NestJS Application Deployment on
ECS Fargate Spot
- Dhruv Bundheliya
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, Illuminate Tech’s infrastructure supports high availability, scalability, and performance to meet the demands of its data-centric applications.
Customer Challenge
The client required a robust, scalable, and cost-effective deployment solution for their NestJS application, which serves as the backend for their critical services.
The challenge was to ensure high availability, security, and compliance.
Additionally, the client needed distinct staging and production environments to support continuous development and reliable production operations.
Solution
We leveraged various AWS services to create an integrated and efficient deployment for the client application.
Key components of the solution included:
Amazon ECS with Fargate Spot: Deployed the NestJS application in containers using ECS, utilizing Fargate Spot instances to reduce compute costs.
Amazon S3 and CloudFront: Used for static asset storage and content delivery, ensuring fast and reliable static content distribution.
AWS IAM: Managed access and permissions securely across AWS services.
AWS WAF: Protected the application from common web exploits and vulnerabilities.
Application Load Balancer: Provided high availability and automatic scaling for the application.
Auto Scaling: Ensured the application could handle varying loads by automatically adjusting the number of running instances.
AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub: Implemented for threat detection and security monitoring, ensuring compliance with best security practices.
AWS Config: Used to monitor and record configuration changes to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
ECS Infrastructure
Results and Benefits
Cost Savings: Achieved approximately 70% savings on compute costs by using Fargate Spot instances compared to on-demand instances.
High Availability: Improved application availability with ALB and Auto Scaling, resulting in 99.99% uptime.
Enhanced Security: Strengthened security posture using AWS WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and IAM best practices.
Performance Improvement: Enhanced application performance and reduced latency through the use of CloudFront and optimized container orchestration.
Scalability: Enabled seamless scalability to handle traffic spikes without manual intervention, ensuring consistent user experience.
Optimization Opportunities: Using Fargate Spot instances presented substantial cost savings, though it required handling occasional instance terminations gracefully.
Security Integration: Proactively integrating security services like GuardDuty and WAF from the beginning is crucial for robust application security.
Scalability and Performance: Leveraging AWS services for auto-scaling and load balancing significantly improved the application’s ability to handle variable loads and maintain performance.
Automation and Monitoring: Automating deployment and monitoring with services like AWS Config and Auto Scaling reduced manual intervention and ensured consistent performance and compliance.
Continuous Improvement: Regularly reviewing and optimizing resource usage and security configurations can lead to further cost savings and performance improvements.
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.
