Executive Summary
Alasco GmbH is a Germany-based construction technology company that specializes in providing digital solutions for the construction industry. Alasco offers a platform that enables construction companies to manage their projects more efficiently by providing real-time insights and data-driven decision-making tools. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to analyze data from construction projects, such as scheduling, budgeting, and procurement, to help improve the overall performance of the project.
The company's goal is to transform the construction industry by using technology to optimize and streamline project management processes, reduce costs, and increase productivity. Alasco's clients include some of the largest construction companies in Germany, and the company has received several awards for its innovative solutions.
The Challenge
Alasco GmbH faced challenges while running their workloads on Elastic Beanstalk, such as limited control over the underlying infrastructure and difficulty in scaling and managing containers.
To address concerns regarding the management and security of their workloads as the company continues to expand, Alasco GmbH sought the assistance of Come to the Clouds Ltd., a reputable AWS service provider. Come to the Clouds proposed a solution to migrate Alasco's workloads to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster utilizing the Fargate launch type. The Fargate launch type eliminates the need for customers to manage the underlying EC2 instances, providing a serverless experience. This migration is expected to improve the management and scalability of Alasco's workloads while also enhancing their security and cost-effectiveness.
Why Come to the Clouds Ltd.
Come To The Clouds Ltd is a highly desirable partner that can offer numerous advantages for businesses seeking to migrate to the cloud or optimize their current cloud infrastructure.
Expertise: Come To The Clouds possesses a team of skilled cloud experts who can aid businesses in designing, deploying, and managing their cloud infrastructure. The team has extensive knowledge of AWS Cloud and modern software development and data engineering techniques and can provide personalized solutions to suit each business's unique requirements.
Cost Optimization: Come To The Clouds can assist businesses in optimizing their cloud infrastructure to decrease costs and enhance efficiency. The team can evaluate usage and spending patterns and offer advice on how to decrease expenses while still fulfilling business needs.
Security: Come To The Clouds can help businesses guarantee that their cloud infrastructure adheres to industry standards and regulations, ensuring security and compliance. The team can establish best practices for cloud security, including access control, network security, and data protection.
Scalability: Come To The Clouds can aid businesses in designing and implementing a scalable cloud infrastructure that can handle fluctuating business requirements and workload demands. The team can help businesses make use of cloud services such as auto-scaling, load balancing, and serverless computing to ensure their infrastructure can expand and adjust as needed.
Support: Come To The Clouds provides continuous support and management services to ensure that businesses' cloud infrastructure operates efficiently and without interruption. The team can offer support, monitoring, and troubleshooting to help businesses avoid downtime and minimize disruptions to their operations.
The Solution
The project was initiated through a series of workshops, where Alasco GmbH management conveyed their requirements to Come to the Clouds, an established AWS Service provider, enlisted to assist in the project. Based on these requirements, Come to the Clouds proposed a multi-account Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) setup to handle different environments, and subsequently developed secure, compliant, and scalable EKS Cluster templates together with Alasco's platform team.
After the initial deployment, Come to the Clouds migrated the current workloads from Elastic Beanstalk to the newly established EKS Cluster to address the concerns of scalability, security, and compliance. During the course of the project, Come to the Clouds made extensive use of several AWS services,including but not limited to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, ElasticBeanstalk, ECR, App Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, API Gateway, RDS, RDS Read Replica, VPC, and Transit Gateway.
Results and Benefits
Upon successful completion of the project with Come to the Clouds, Alasco GmbH has now acquired a new platform that is capable of accommodating an infinite number of container workloads and is well-positioned for future growth. This new infrastructure is equipped with the necessary scalability, security, and compliance features to ensure that the company can expand and onboard enterprise customers to its SaaS application with ease. By migrating to EKS, the new setup is now future-proofed and can efficiently meet the evolving requirements of a growing business.
Next Steps
Come to the Clouds will continue to optimize and modernize workloads to achieve maximal cloud agility.
