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Overview

A leading enterprise in Vietnam’s consumer goods manufacturing industry embarked on a strategic transformation to modernize its IT infrastructure by migrating its applications and data platforms to AWS. By collaborating with Renova Cloud and leveraging AWS’s powerful cloud solutions, the organization developed a flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient platform. This transformation enabled the company to efficiently manage diverse workloads while ensuring stable infrastructure performance, empowering it to continue delivering stellar products and services to consumers.

Key Challenges

The organization was in the process of digital infrastructure transformation, which required a strategic approach to modernization. However, the company was facing some significant challenges, one of which was managing fluctuating workloads during peak periods, as the existing infrastructure lacked the resources to automatically adapt to surges in traffic. Consequently, the lack of automation led to manual errors and slower delivery speeds, frequently impacting the ability to meet business requirements effectively.

On the other hand, the enterprise relied on multiple core applications to enhance customer experience and was increasingly integrating while progressively integrating advanced technologies such as Data Analytics and AI/ML, which required modern technology stacks. These key components generated valuable insights for the management team, informing future decision-making and creating added value for customers by analyzing shopping behaviors, supporting loyalty programs, and identifying trends across customer segments. However, they introduced data privacy concerns as well as integration compatibility issues with the existing system.

Solution

Renova Cloud implemented a comprehensive migration strategy, focusing on modernizing applications, enhancing the data platform, optimizing architecture, and strengthening security to address operational challenges and optimize technological infrastructure.

[High-level Infrastructure Diagram]
[High-level Infrastructure Diagram]

1. Modernizing the Application Ecosystem

To enhance performance and optimize infrastructure, Renova Cloud deployed Amazon EKS, ensuring seamless application orchestration and the development of a modern multi-application platform. This system effectively supported loyalty programs, internal mobile applications, and backend/frontend integrations. As a result, this enterprise could quickly scale workloads while ensuring stable and robust application performance.

Additionally, the adoption of Amazon RDS, a managed service, enhanced the ability to securely and reliably manage data by offering features such as scalable storage, point-in-time recovery, and seamless integration with AWS services, ensuring both scalability and robust security. Meanwhile, CloudFront was integrated to deliver content with low latency, particularly optimized for geographic regions in Vietnam.

2. Enhancing the Data Platform

Renova Cloud established a centralized data lake and data warehouse, consolidating both raw and processed data to lay the foundation for in-depth analytics. The company also implemented Amazon EC2 instances with NVIDIA GPUs, enabling advanced analytics and data modeling, empowering the organization to make strategic decisions based on precise data insights.

Furthermore, Karpenter was deployed to automatically scale Amazon EKS nodes, enhancing performance while significantly reducing operational costs.

3. Optimizing Architecture and Enhancing Security

Renova Cloud introduced CI/CD pipelines, streamlining application development and deployment processes, thereby fostering innovation across the organization entire technology system. On the security front, the integration of AWS WAF protected the system against potential threats, ensuring high availability and safety. Furthermore, AWS Shield Advanced was implemented to safeguard managed services from external risks, including DDoS attacks, volumetric bots, and vulnerability exploitation attempts, with continuous, round-the-clock support from the Shield Response Team.

The deployment strategy was executed in phases to minimize disruptions to business operations. Concurrently, Renova Cloud applied real-time monitoring tools from AWS, continuously optimizing performance and proactively resolving issues.

Key Technologies Used:

  • AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): A fully managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
  • CloudFront: A Content Delivery Network (CDN) optimized for low-latency content delivery in Vietnam.
  • AWS WAF: To safeguard application security and ensure high availability.
  • AWS Shield Advanced: managed service that protects applications against external threats, like DDoS attacks, volumetric bots, and vulnerability exploitation attempts with 24/7 support from Shield Response Team.
  • Data Lake and Data Warehouse: For centralized storage of raw and processed data, driving analytics.
  • Amazon EC2 with NVIDIA GPUs: For AI/ML integrations that support advanced analytics and modeling.
  • Karpenter: For efficient autoscaling of Kubernetes clusters, optimizing both cost and performance.

Benefits

Adoption of AWS infrastructure and advanced technologies has benefited the organization greatly in terms of cost efficiencies, improved ROI, enhanced scalability & stability for better business performance and decision-making. Details are as follows:

Financial Benefits

  • Cost Efficiency: Significant cost savings through Spot Instances and Amazon EKS dynamic resource management with Karpenter.
  • Improved ROI: Enhanced AI/ML capabilities boosted operational insights, translating into better business decisions.

Operational Benefits

  • Enhanced Scalability: Applications now scale effortlessly during peak usage.
  • Improved Stability: Reliable infrastructure ensures uninterrupted business operations.
  • Optimized Development: Automated CI/CD pipelines reduce development cycles.

Performance Improvements

  • Real-time Insights: AI/ML models provide actionable data for loyalty programs and retail analytics.
  • Faster Applications: CDN optimization with CloudFront ensures seamless user experiences across Vietnam.
  • Streamlined Analytics: Centralized data storage and processing improve decision-making speed and accuracy.

Conclusion

The partnership with Renova highlighted how the strategic adoption of AWS’s powerful solutions significantly transformed a leading organization’s IT infrastructure. AWS offers a flexible, scalable platform that seamlessly integrates AI/ML capabilities into applications, while optimizing infrastructure and reducing costs, enabling the company to effectively address its dynamic business requirements.