Case Study: BimPos Migrates To AWS Serverless With Elastic Beanstalk and RDS
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The Challenge
In the fast-paced world of software development, agility and efficiency in deployment are key to staying competitive. BimPos faced challenges in deploying their innovative solutions in a cost-effective, scalable, and efficient manner. As AWS Partners, Ghaim stepped in to provide a comprehensive, serverless solution leveraging the power and flexibility of AWS services, specifically focusing on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, and AWS CodePipeline.
BimPos’s primary challenge was deploying their E-menu application in a manner that could easily scale to meet demand peaks without incurring unnecessary costs. Moreover, BimPos required a deployment process that supported continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) to streamline their development workflow, enabling them to push updates and new features to their application seamlessly and without downtime.
Our Solution
To address these challenges, we crafted a tailored solution that harnessed the best of AWS’s serverless offerings and CI/CD tools. Our solution comprised the following components:
Secure Network (VPC): We started by preparing the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) that will host all the workloads in an extremely secure manner, where we isolated the databases and the applications each in their own private subnets.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment + Auto Scaling: By leveraging AWS Elastic Beanstalk, we have deployed BimPos’s main application in private subnets seamlessly, without the need to manage any underlying infrastructure, all while scaling up and down based on load to save costs and accommodate load during peak hours. We integrated an Application Load Balancer to distribute incoming application traffic efficiently across multiple targets in different Availability Zones. This ensured high availability and fault tolerance for their applications. With Auto Scaling, the solution automatically adjusted the number of running instances to meet the demand, optimizing costs and performance.
RDS for MySQL: Since the main application needs a MySQL Database to function, we have deployed an RDS MySQL Cluster of write and read instances across 2 availability zones in private subnets to guarantee high availability and security. Automated backups are also taken every 24 hours to guarantee no data is lost in case of an outage.
CI/CD Pipelines via AWS CodePipeline: Implemented AWS CodePipeline automated the entire release process from code update to deployment. This CI/CD pipeline allowed BimPos’s developers to focus on building and improving their application, knowing that any code pushed to their private Github repositories would trigger an automated process for testing, building, and deploying their application automatically on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code): Leveraged CloudFormation Stacks for Infrastructure as Code practices to deploy resources automatically.
Benefits of The Offered Solution
The deployment solution provided to BimPos came with multiple benefits:
- Scalability: The serverless architecture allowed for scaling based on demand, ensuring that the application could handle peak loads without any manual intervention or pre-provisioning of resources.
- Cost Optimization: By leveraging AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Auto Scaling, BimPos only paid for the compute and storage resources actually used, significantly reducing operational costs.
- Increased Development Velocity: The CI/CD pipelines streamlined the development process, enabling faster iterations and quicker time-to-market for new features and updates.
- High Availability and Reliability: The use of Application Load Balancer and deployment across multiple Availability Zones ensured that the application remained available and performant, even in the face of potential failures.
By partnering with Ghaim, BimPos successfully transformed their Emenu application deployment strategy. The serverless, scalable, and efficient solution provided not only addressed their immediate challenges but also positioned them for future growth and innovation. As AWS Partners, we are proud to have delivered a solution that exemplifies the power and flexibility of AWS services, driving forward the potential of cloud computing in the AI and software development sectors.