Beams Renovation
About the Customer:
Beams, a company in the renovation sector for homeowners and contractors, initially relied on Heroku as their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution for application deployment. While Heroku allowed for quick application deployment, it presented limitations in scalability, cost efficiency, and flexibility as Beams’ business grew. Recognizing these challenges, Beams transitioned to AWS to gain more control over their infrastructure, improve automation, and optimize costs. The migration to AWS, coupled with the adoption of DevOps practices, has empowered Beams to modernize their infrastructure and enhance their software development lifecycle.
Challenges with Heroku:
- Scalability Needs: With increasing user demand and traffic, Beams required a more scalable environment to maintain performance during peak usage.
- Infrastructure Control: As their architecture evolved, Beams needed more granular control over infrastructure provisioning, deployment processes, and integrations with internal systems.
- CI/CD Automation: To improve development velocity and reduce time-to-market, Beams aimed to implement automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Cost Optimization: Efficient use of infrastructure resources and long-term cost management became essential as their usage scaled.
- Operational Efficiency: The team wanted to reduce the operational overhead associated with managing environments, enabling them to focus more on innovation and product development.
- Ongoing Support: Beams sought expert long-term support to maintain high availability, ensure compliance, and continuously improve their platform.
Partner Solution:
- Strategic Migration Planning: Designed and executed a comprehensive migration strategy to transition Beams’ application environment to AWS.
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Leveraged AWS services to build a scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure tailored to Beams’ evolving business needs.
- Infrastructure as Code: Automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to improve consistency, repeatability, and speed of deployments.
- CI/CD Enablement: Implemented modern DevOps practices, including automated CI/CD pipelines, to accelerate software delivery and reduce manual intervention.
- Performance Optimization: Architected the solution to handle high-traffic workloads efficiently, ensuring consistent performance and availability.
- Ongoing Support and Optimization: Provided continuous support and optimization to align the AWS environment with Beams’ growth and compliance goals.
Key Components of the Solution
Infrastructure Modernization with AWS:
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): We migrated infrastructure provisioning to Terraform, enabling automated and consistent setup of AWS resources through AWS Control Tower. This provided consistent environments across Beams’ multiple stages (e.g., development, staging, production).
AWS Services Deployed:
- Amazon ECS with EC2: Applications were moved to ECS clusters, with Auto Scaling Groups used to dynamically adjust capacity based on demand, improving scalability and performance.
- Amazon RDS (Multi-AZ): Deployed a highly available, fault-tolerant database solution for secure data storage in private subnets.
- Amazon S3 & CloudFront: Used S3 to host static assets and the Next Js based admin portal, while CloudFront acted as a content delivery network (CDN) to optimize load times.
- Route 53: Integrated Route 53 for DNS management, ensuring high availability and low latency for beamsrenovation.com
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM): Secured SSL/TLS certificates for secure data transmission.
DevOps Practices for Agile Development:
- CI/CD Automation: We configured GitHub Actions to automate the build, test, and deployment processes, significantly reducing manual intervention and deployment errors.
- Monitoring and Logging: Integrated Amazon CloudWatch for real-time performance insights, and set up AWS CloudTrail to track account activity and infrastructure changes, improving incident resolution and security monitoring.
Business Transformation:
- Consolidated Beams’ web assets under beamsrenovation.com, streamlining access to endpoints like /project, /quiz, and /admin.
- By eliminating manual processes, Beams achieved operational efficiency, with faster feature delivery and more reliable customer-facing applications.
Managed Services
DevOps Consulting and Implementation:
Hybytes provided end-to-end DevOps consulting and implementation for Beams transforming their development, deployment, and infrastructure management processes. By migrating from Render to AWS, we introduced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, ensuring automated provisioning, version-controlled environments, and repeatable deployments.
Long-Term Support
- Beyond initial implementation: Hybytes ensures that Beams’ cloud environment remains optimized, secure, and continuously improving. Our managed services model includes:
- Regular Infrastructure Audits: Continuous improvement of Terraform-based infrastructure to optimize costs, security, and performance.
- AWS Best Practices Alignment: Ensuring Beams’ infrastructure meets AWS Well-Architected Framework standards for security, performance, and reliability.
- Automated Scaling & Performance Optimization: Leveraging AWS Auto Scaling to optimize ECS resources dynamically based on real-time demand.
- Proactive Monitoring & Issue Resolution: Utilizing Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS Config to detect issues early and implement corrective actions.
24×7 Incident Support
- Hybytes provides round-the-clock support for Beams: ensuring high availability, rapid issue resolution, and minimal downtime. Our incident response strategy includes:
- Proactive Alerting & Monitoring: Using AWS CloudWatch Alarms, AWS Config Rules, and Datadog APM, our team continuously tracks performance and system health.
- Automated Remediation: Leveraging AWS Auto Scaling and self-healing mechanisms to adjust resources based on demand and recover from failures automatically.
- Escalation & Resolution Workflow: Our support team follows industrial best practices to triage, diagnose, and resolve issues before they impact operations.
- Disaster Recovery & Failover Management: Implementing AWS Multi-AZ architectures for RDS, ECS, and other critical workloads to ensure resilience.
Cost and Account Governance
- Hybytes helps Beams: optimize cloud spending and maintain governance across multiple AWS accounts by leveraging AWS FinOps tools and best practices.
- AWS Cost Explorer & Compute Optimizer: Implemented to track spending patterns and recommend optimal computing resources for cost efficiency.
- AWS Control Tower & Multi-Account Governance: Managing centralized governance model for Beams’ AWS accounts (Development, Staging, Production).
- Billing Transparency & Budget Alerts: Using AWS Budgets and Cost Allocation Tags to ensure accurate cost tracking and forecasting.
Managing Security and Compliance
- AWS Security Hub & Compliance Monitoring.
- IAM Role-Based Access Control.
- AWS CloudTrail & Logging Audits.
- Automated Threat Detection.
- Incident Response & Forensics.
Customer Impact
Technical Benefits:
- Automation and Consistency: With Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, manual errors were eliminated, providing consistent environments across Beams’ development and production pipelines.
- Scalability and Reliability: ECS with Auto Scaling and RDS Multi-AZ allowed Beams to scale dynamically without compromising uptime or performance, ensuring high availability even during peak traffic periods.
- Enhanced Monitoring and Logging: By integrating CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Beams achieved deeper observability into their AWS environment, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents and enabling proactive issue resolution.
- Long Term Support: By engaging Hybytes as a Long term support partner, Beams ensure high availability, optimized cost and security.
Business Benefits:
- Accelerated Time to Market: The automation of the CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions reduced deployment cycles by over 50%, enabling faster delivery of new features and patches.
- Improved User Experience: CloudFront and Route 53 optimized content delivery, reducing latency and enhancing customer satisfaction through faster load times.
- Cost Optimization: The pay-as-you-go pricing model and dynamic scaling ensured that Beams only paid for the resources they used, resulting in reduced infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance.
- Future-Ready Foundation: With the adoption of AWS, Beams now has a scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure, providing a strong foundation to support future growth, innovation, and business expansion.
Results and Benefits:
Beams’ migration to AWS, delivered in partnership with Hybytes, resulted in substantial technical and business gains:
50% reduction in deployment cycles through CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, accelerating feature releases and updates.
Highly scalable and reliable architecture enabled by ECS with Auto Scaling and RDS Multi-AZ, ensuring performance and availability during peak loads.
Consistent and automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, eliminating manual errors and improving deployment reliability.
Enhanced observability and faster incident resolution through CloudWatch and CloudTrail integration, reducing MTTR and strengthening operational insights.
Optimized cloud costs via dynamic scaling and a pay-as-you-go model, delivering infrastructure efficiency without compromising performance.
Improved user experience and lower latency using CloudFront and Route 53, resulting in faster content delivery and higher customer satisfaction.
Future-ready cloud foundation with ongoing support from Hybytes, ensuring long-term scalability, security, and compliance alignment.
About the Partner:
Hybytes is a leading technology solutions provider with over a decade of experience delivering innovative, scalable, and efficient services. Our expertise spans product development, Big Data solutions, DevOps, network monitoring, and AWS consulting. We also specialize in cloud computing, web and mobile application development, and data warehousing, leveraging the latest technologies to drive business success. By adopting agile methodologies, we ensure cost-effective solutions tailored to meet our clients’ unique needs. At Hybytes, we are committed to empowering businesses with cutting-edge solutions that deliver measurable results and drive growth.