Improving and Simplifying IT Together
A strategic partnership between Teracloud and
Axiom Cloud launched in 2020 to make the world’s cooling systems sustainable.
With the use of software to automate and transform how the world’s cooling systems are powered, operated, and maintained, their goal is to generate significant climate and financial impact, all while broadening the possibility to integrate their experience at a cross-industry level.
They’ve developed software-based applications and cloud based-AI which serve as an exemplary demonstration of their drive in achieving their mission.
Once Teracloud started working with Axiom Cloud, their infrastructure’s security, performance, and reliability improved drastically.
About Axiom Cloud
Axiom Cloud’s team of refrigeration experts, data scientists, energy experts, and software developers solve retail grocery’s biggest energy and maintenance challenges. These are common not only to retail grocery shops but to cooling systems in general. Those are:
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Shortages of qualified technicians
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Tightening refrigerant regulations
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Rising energy costs Inadequate power grids
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Warming climates worldwide
To counter these, Axiom Cloud provides solutions that foresee equipment issues, provide power flexibility and energy storage, and curtails refrigerant leaks early. All of these combined make for valuable, more sustainable cooling systems.
With experience in commercial refrigeration systems at their core, they plan to leverage this accumulated knowledge and know-how across multiple industry categories to make the world’s cooling systems more sustainable.
Embracing such an enterprise comes under the clear vision that cooling today can mitigate, better yet, solve its most significant challenges using the proven playbook of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial intelligence (AI), and automation.
Axiom Cloud's Challenges
As a fast-growing company, Axiom Cloud was facing challenges related to their infrastructure’s general governance. They were looking for a partner who could help and support them on:
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Cloud Management
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DevOps
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Infrastructure Architecture and Design
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IaC
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CICD
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Security
Overall they were looking for a team that could add knowledge and expertise to the existing cloud infrastructure, while also working together on new technology adoption with elasticity capabilities.
Why AWS
Cloud computing is on the rise, and AWS is emerging as the clear winner. With more than 40% market share of the cloud service market, Amazon Web Services is the leader in the industry. It offers cloud-based storage, virtual storage, and 70 other services to enterprises for their digital needs.
COVID-19 has driven companies to explore cloud computing more than ever. Amazon cloud business solutions enable you to move your organization to virtual channels. AWS cloud consulting is becoming popular as enterprises look to analyze how going virtual with AWS will help them reap the benefits of digital technology.
AWS is designed to allow application providers, ISVs, and vendors to quickly and securely host your applications – whether an existing application or a new SaaS-based application. You can use the AWS Management Console or well-documented web services APIs to access AWS’s application hosting platform.
Using AWS tools, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing, your application can scale up or down based on demand. Backed by Amazon’s massive infrastructure, you have access to compute and storage resources when you need them.
Using AWS tools, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing, customer applications can scale up or down based on demand. Backed by Amazon’s massive infrastructure, customers have access to compute and storage resources whenever needed.
Why Teracloud
Teracloud’s expertise in the Cloud deployment, security, and hands-on experience in helping all kinds of companies scale their business in a healthy and efficient manner was crucial in their decision.
Teracloud’s Certified AWS Engineers conducted a comprehensive review of the organization’s existing AWS environment.
With this review, Teracloud produced a report that outlined the company’s current state in regards to the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and specific technical recommendations for improving their environments.
Teracloud’s team has vast experience in security compliances and good practices.
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APN Advanced partner with certified resources
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Proactive and leadership attitude team
Partner Solution
Based on the assessment we initially proposed to migrate their infrastructure code to Terraform, this was followed by the implementation of monitoring and alerting solutions for their main services, either due to issues with crashes, resource limits, or cost considerations. The focus was set on improving security as well as account management.
The solution includes the implementation of an EKS cluster and bost the platform elasticity leveraging Karpenter for Autoscaling automation, which takes care of both horizontal and vertical auto scaling of the instances that power up the cluster and the use of Fluent Bit to collect specific resource consumption metrics from the cluster.
All customer accounts are managed from within the AWS Organization, which provides a more convenient, efficient, and secure way to configure at the account level.
Following the AWS Well-Architected framework we designed and implemented a solution that included the five pillars. Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance, and Cost-effectiveness.
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Architecture based on containers under AWS EKS
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Continuous Integration and Delivery using CodeBuild and CodePipelines to automate
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Infrastructure as a Code using Terraform
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Secure data stores with AWS RDS deletion protection and encryption enabled.
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Monitoring and visibility enabled by CloudWatch and notifications via slack channel and email.
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Use of AWS Organization to allow management of multiple AWS accounts from a single console, enabling centralized management, cost control, security and compliance, resource sharing, and scalability.
Takeaways
As seen in the graph above, after implementing the most impactful changes over the last few months,
we observed a significant decrease in the monthly cost of all accounts, thus meeting compliance
with all AWS pillars.
Next Steps
The steps to follow when contacting the client are:
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Cleaning up unnecessary infrastructure.
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Correcting vulnerability recommendations provided by SecurityHub.
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Properly configuring the EKS cluster.
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Compliance with AWS best practices.
Our approach
Teracloud is a fast-growing AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner created by certified cloud experts, with seasoned experience in migrating and deploying startups, enterprises, and everything in between to the cloud. We've worked with companies from many industries such as airlines, healthcare, education, and e-commerce designing, implementing, and managing Cloud workloads with HA architecture under 99.9% uptime SLA and PCI/HIPAA compliance requirements.
Our expertise ranges from designing state-of-the-art cloud architecture to deploying and managing cloud environments through Managed Services including AWS Consulting, Architects, DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps, 24/7 Support, Automation, Disaster Recovery, and Security. We provide secure, scalable, and highly available solutions for our clients.
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