Amazon Web Services
Success Stories. A selection.
Start-Up: Book2Kite
Application Cloud Move & Cloud Ops
The challenge. The start-up „Book2Kite“, specialized in brokering kitesurfing trips, needed a reliable partner with expertise in operating high-availability software solutions for its go-live. The typical challenge of a start-up is also valid here: avoiding high initial IT investments, while still being able to scale up quickly as the number of users grows.
The solution. Like many applications, „Book2Kite“ is based on a 3-tier architecture consisting of a backend, frontend and a database. The initial setup is built upon a hand-picked selection of AWS services with cost optimizations in mind. Containers form the basic building blocks to implement a highly available and scalable architecture. Using our proven Terraform module „Terra3“, the first deployments to the „dev“ stage were achieved within a few days. Thanks to using infrastructure as code the go-live in the „prod“ stage was achieved shortly after.
TECHNOLOGIE-ECKPUNKTE.
Amazon RDS
GitLab
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Terraform
From the IBM to the AWS Cloud
Application Cloud Migration
The challenge. One of our corporate customers wants to further grow with its end-customer-oriented IOT solution. Due to increased operational disruptions and suboptimal architecture, the technical basis of the project is not sufficiently designed for the targeted growth. A re-platforming based on the AWS cloud promised to remedy the situation.
The solution. First, a migration plan was developed and a high-level design was created for a highly available multi-account setup. The implementation was done entirely with CloudFormation. A revised development workflow, including a customized branching model, allowed reliable and automatic deployments to seven environments. A CloudWatch-based dashboard provides visibility across support teams. The solution was migrated without disrupting the existing service and has ever since run stably in the AWS cloud. Downtimes caused by deployments and other operational disruptions are history. The customer is satisfied with the project execution “in time” and “in budget”.
TECHNOLOGIE-ECKPUNKTE.
Amazon Web Services
GitLab
Amazon Cognito
Amazon DocumentDB
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudFormation
AWS Lambda
SaaS Start-Up: ITO Translation Tool
Application Cloud Move & Cloud Ops
The challenge. The “ITO Translation Tool” is the first digital service of it-objects GmbH. It enables the management of translations as a self-service within the scope of software development projects. The goal was to ensure high availability and scalability of the service.
The solution. As a first step, a high-availability setup based on Kubernetes with Terraform and Helm was designed. Day 2 operations are ensured by a careful selection of tools. GitLab CI/CD pipelines ensure continuous deployment. The software has been in service since early 2021 and has since then met high availability and scalability requirements.
TECHNOLOGIE-ECKPUNKTE.
Amazon Web Services
GitLab
Helm
Terraform
AWS Fargate
Kubernetes
NewRelic
Rancher
From on-prem data center to AWS
Application Cloud Migration
The challenge. One of our corporate customers needed to modernize its application landscape, which was running in a data center with dedicated servers. This was maintained manually and was not designed to be highly available in all aspects. This led to regular deployment problems and outages. The service management decided to modernize the solution taking a cloud-native approach.
The solution. Containerization and end-to-end automation with pipelines made releases more predictable, faster and also more frequent. For the software development team, this meant less stress and more time to focus on the core features.
TECHNOLOGIE-ECKPUNKTE.
Amazon Web Services
GitLab
Amazon RDS
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
NewRelic
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