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A global top 20 pharmaceutical company needed more cost-effective, easier-to-manage infrastructure to develop, test, and publish hundreds of websites. Using automated migration capabilities customized in Lagoon, amazee.io helped the pharma efficiently move 3,000 Kubernetes environments from Red Hat OpenShift on AWS to Amazon EKS over two weekends, resulting in simpler maintenance and 60% cost savings.
The pharmaceutical company ran 800 promotional websites, using managed services from Lagoon (a web application delivery platform for Kubernetes) and Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) for infrastructure. The development team published dozens of new Laravel, Drupal, and Node.js websites each month, and deploying them on ROSA became too costly and difficult to maintain.
“Red Hat OpenShift on AWS is a nightmare to manage. It’s much harder and more cumbersome, even for something as easy as just setting up the appropriate permissions to access a cluster,” said Blaize Kaye, Developer Experience Engineer at amazee.io. “It drove our costs up because we have to do so much more outside of our normal day-to-day tasks to maintain a cluster.”
This complexity and extra maintenance were one of the reasons that the pharmaceutical company decided to make the switch to amazee.io, but it wasn't the only one. The company was using multiple technologies, programming languages, and frameworks, and each required its own hosting provider and processes, adding to the staff's workload. amazee.io supports a wide variety of technologies on the same infrastructure, so it was possible to move all of their workloads to a single provider. What's more, those workloads could be containerized, which was something that was becoming standard practice internally.
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The development team published dozens of new Laravel, Drupal, and Node.js websites each month, and deploying them on ROSA became too costly and difficult to maintain. “Red Hat OpenShift on AWS is a nightmare to manage. It’s much harder and more cumbersome, even for something as easy as just setting up the appropriate permissions to access a cluster,” said Blaize Kaye, Developer Experience Engineer at amazee.io. “It drove our costs up because we have to do so much more outside of our normal day-to-day tasks to maintain a cluster.” This complexity and extra maintenance were one of the reasons that the pharmaceutical company decided to make the switch to amazee.io, but it wasn't the only one. The company was using multiple technologies, programming languages, and frameworks, and each required its own hosting provider and processes, adding to the staff's workload. amazee.io supports a wide variety of technologies on the same infrastructure, so it was possible to move all of their workloads to a single provider. What's more, those workloads could be containerized, which was something that was becoming standard practice internally."}}},{"id":"41276012-2518-51e4-9618-7caca3b96b11","slice_type":"anchor_point","slice_label":null,"primary":{"anchor_id":null,"anchor_link":"#Technical-Demo-Form","anchor_link_text":"Book a free technical demo","anchor_link_target":"_self"}},{"id":"40757fc6-3d5d-5ef5-a213-8f851c762158","internal":{"type":"PrismicCaseStudyBody1BasicContent"},"slice_label":null,"slice_type":"basic_content","primary":{"content":{"html":"In addition, because amazee.io uses open source, the company wasn't locked in; at any time they can move their workloads to another provider, or to their own AWS account. amazee.io also made it possible to host applications in mainland China, which was important for the pharmaceutical company's global footprint.
amazee.io convinced the pharma to migrate directly to Amazon EKS, which would simplify infrastructure maintenance and dramatically lower application delivery costs to better support future expansion.
","raw":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition, because amazee.io uses open source, the company wasn't locked in; at any time they can move their workloads to another provider, or to their own AWS account. amazee.io also made it possible to host applications in mainland China, which was important for the pharmaceutical company's global footprint.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"amazee.io convinced the pharma to migrate directly to Amazon EKS, which would simplify infrastructure maintenance and dramatically lower application delivery costs to better support future expansion.","spans":[]}],"text":"In addition, because amazee.io uses open source, the company wasn't locked in; at any time they can move their workloads to another provider, or to their own AWS account. amazee.io also made it possible to host applications in mainland China, which was important for the pharmaceutical company's global footprint. amazee.io convinced the pharma to migrate directly to Amazon EKS, which would simplify infrastructure maintenance and dramatically lower application delivery costs to better support future expansion."}}},{"id":"df1d3fbb-c4c0-5ad9-9f38-ab9e142361c9","slice_type":"block_quote","slice_label":null,"primary":{"content":{"html":"“We showed the pharma how they could grow exponentially to their heart’s content on AWS EKS for less than half the cost they were paying for ROSA.” – Bobby Kindle, Technical Account Manager, amazee.io
","raw":[{"type":"paragraph","text":" “We showed the pharma how they could grow exponentially to their heart’s content on AWS EKS for less than half the cost they were paying for ROSA.” – Bobby Kindle, Technical Account Manager, amazee.io","spans":[{"start":151,"end":201,"type":"strong"}]}],"text":" “We showed the pharma how they could grow exponentially to their heart’s content on AWS EKS for less than half the cost they were paying for ROSA.” – Bobby Kindle, Technical Account Manager, amazee.io"}}},{"id":"63739d6e-ccc3-599a-b517-620b68bc9e20","internal":{"type":"PrismicCaseStudyBody1BasicContent"},"slice_label":null,"slice_type":"basic_content","primary":{"content":{"html":"Engineers at amazee.io made moving easy by creating a custom task in Lagoon to automate the migration process. “We wanted to figure out how to make this migration as simple as possible for the customer,” Kindle said. “Our goal was to develop something that allowed customers to migrate sites themselves, without relying on us.”
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Lagoon users can now launch a full migration with the click of a button, without having to worry about technical details like GraphQL, APIs, or Ansible, or integrate an external system to manage the migration, which is typically required. Using the custom task on the amazee.io dashboard, it took the Pharma company only one weekend to seamlessly migrate 2,100 developer environments from ROSA to EKS themselves. Months later, during the second migration phase, 900 production, staging, and QA environments were migrated to EKS, again, all over a single weekend. That’s just 48 hours.
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The ability to do these migrations themselves, with just a click of a button, was a game-changer for the pharma organization, because it meant they could do things on their own terms. Additionally, any user at the company can easily start a migration - not just someone with technical skills.
A few sites were not ready for migration, so amazee.io shared access to the custom task with the pharma’s IT staff, who could migrate the remaining sites on their own whenever they were ready.
“The fact that we can hand the custom task over to the customer to run their own migrations is awesome,” Kaye said. “Any support employee can now run something as technical as a cluster migration by just clicking a button on the dashboard, and the migration will happen seamlessly in the background.”
As a bonus, the custom task can be reconfigured and reused to migrate to other infrastructure, in case the pharma decides to later transfer environments away from EKS.
While amazee.io initially created the custom task feature in Lagoon for its own support team, the company wanted to also give customers the flexibility to optimize Lagoon for their own needs. amazee.io opened up the feature, and the pharma created its own custom tasks for database synching and dumping.
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Overall, migrating from ROSA to EKS has been a big win for both the pharma company and amazee.io. The pharma seamlessly migrated 3,000 environments, gained self-service capabilities for additional migrations, and saved 60% in application delivery costs. amazee.io benefited from simpler day-to-day maintenance for Kubernetes clusters, little to no labor required from amazee.io team members for the remaining migrations, and the satisfaction of seeing a customer thrive with Lagoon in new, creative ways.
Read another case study about a customer using Lagoon with Amazon EKS.
Interested in seeing results like these for your company? We can show you how it’s done, and what your results might look like for your team. Meet with our ZeroOps/Kubernetes experts today for a free technical demo, and we’ll show you how much time and money you could save with amazee.io. Book a technical demo with our team today.
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Vlaanderen.be is the hub for civic information in Flanders (Belgium) and was due for a radical refresh. With ambitious modernization goals, it relaunched in March 2019. Throughout development and post-launch, their technology team has worked with amazee.io to leverage a flexible, custom hosting solution built on amazee.io’s open source platform, Lagoon. The teams have partnered to achieve the scalability, maintainability, and flexibility necessary to host complex decoupled web applications relying heavily on microservices.
Build a robust, scalable hosting solution that meets all relevant government standards and expectations while being flexible enough to host a broad stack of the latest technologies.
Intending to effectively integrate and utilize the latest, most promising web technologies, Vlaanderen’s technology team has had a unique set of hosting requirements. They evaluated common hosting options, including well-known cloud providers, and did it in-house. Determining that the alternatives were too limiting, the team chose amazee.io’s dedicated Lagoon hosting solution.
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Through ongoing collaboration and continuous delivery, the teams work hand-in-hand as true partners. In addition to platform implementation, ongoing support, and server management, amazee.io provides Vlaanderen’s team with technical advice on architectural and technical implementation challenges.
Before working with amazee.io, the hosting was outdated and inflexible, and deployments were cumbersome and risky. With a microservice and API-first approach, git-based deployments, and containerization, the development process is streamlined, environments are fully congruent, and the system is flexible enough to run any application or service. Developers, content editors, and front-end users enjoy faster, smoother experiences with Vlaanderen.be.
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Career Year Academy is a skills-based education provider serving the Canadian and French markets. They aim to bridge the gap between high school, university, and the workplace. Launched in 2018, CYA has been hosting with amazee.io from the beginning. Working with amazee.io was easy for their technical leadership, who had prior experience with us when we started. CYA had evaluated other hosting providers but ultimately chose amazee.io for our ability to handle their DevOps needs, which allowed them to focus on building and maintaining their product.
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Patrick Delorme, Chief Information Officer at Career Year Academy
When COVID-19 disrupted and shut down most in-person scholastic activities worldwide, CYA wanted to double down on its commitment to helping students. With the cancellation of in-person university expos, CYA recognized a new unmet need: connecting high school students with higher education institutions. Thus, CYA decided to expand its offerings by building a pro-bono digital platform that would bring the college expo experience online.
To do our part, amazee.io also offered free web hosting to organizations pursuing initiatives to help with COVID-19 relief efforts. When CYA reached out to see if we would support them by hosting the project for free, we immediately agreed.
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– Patrick Delorme, Chief Information Officer at Career Year Academy
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Updated: 29. August, 2024
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amazee.io and Previon Plus, a leading Swiss digital agency, worked together to build a custom on-premises hosting solution for their client, SIX, the infrastructure operator for the Swiss financial center.
Create an open source container-based on-premises hosting solution that supports deployments from the cloud while maintaining the highest levels of security.
In an effort to modernize their intranet, which stores a vast amount of non-public information required to operate their business, SIX partnered with Previon Plus to move to agile DevOps, leverage better technologies, and redesign the employee digital experience. With Previon Plus’s expertise in digital platforms, they brought amazee.io on board to deliver a secure on-premise hosting solution in SIX’s data center that would support the open source technology being implemented for the new intranet. Moving their systems from SharePoint to Drupal required a high level of consulting services, including change management, training, and high coordination with Previon Plus and SIX’s Corporate Security, Network, Database, and Intranet teams.
Production, staging, and development environments are containerized and fully congruent, each running the exact same resources and services. Development leverages automatic deployment processes in amazee.io’s cloud hosting platform, Lagoon. Deployments from development are facilitated by custom scripting, secured via automated scans, and released into SIX’s internally managed OpenShift cluster.
Because security is of the utmost priority within highly regulated industries such as finance, SIX IT governance required the project to be hosted on their on-premises servers. amazee.io was tasked with not only enabling rapid deployments but also ensuring the highest levels of data protection. Our custom solution leverages Lagoon to provide a cloud-based server for ongoing development, from which staging and production releases are deployed directly into SIX’s data center after passing an automated security scan.
• Infrastructure cost reduction of 30%
• Development teams can make releases over 20 times more frequently than before
• SIX can leverage the latest technologies while maintaining security
This solution enables Previon Plus to ship weekly releases while meeting the strict requirements of stability and security. We were able to facilitate additional requirements, including personalized content, single sign-on, and advanced search with Solr, which could be tested locally because of the containerization, and ultimately launched the platform far ahead of SIX’s expectations — rather than requiring years, we delivered this complex solution in only two months.
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In an effort to modernize their intranet, which stores a vast amount of non-public information required to operate their business, SIX partnered with Previon Plus to move to agile DevOps, leverage better technologies, and redesign the employee digital experience. With Previon Plus’s expertise in digital platforms, they brought amazee.io on board to deliver a secure on-premise hosting solution in SIX’s data center that would support the open source technology being implemented for the new intranet. Moving their systems from SharePoint to Drupal required a high level of consulting services, including change management, training, and high coordination with Previon Plus and SIX’s Corporate Security, Network, Database, and Intranet teams. Solution Production, staging, and development environments are containerized and fully congruent, each running the exact same resources and services. Development leverages automatic deployment processes in amazee.io’s cloud hosting platform, Lagoon. Deployments from development are facilitated by custom scripting, secured via automated scans, and released into SIX’s internally managed OpenShift cluster. Because security is of the utmost priority within highly regulated industries such as finance, SIX IT governance required the project to be hosted on their on-premises servers. amazee.io was tasked with not only enabling rapid deployments but also ensuring the highest levels of data protection. Our custom solution leverages Lagoon to provide a cloud-based server for ongoing development, from which staging and production releases are deployed directly into SIX’s data center after passing an automated security scan. Results • Infrastructure cost reduction of 30% • Development teams can make releases over 20 times more frequently than before • SIX can leverage the latest technologies while maintaining security This solution enables Previon Plus to ship weekly releases while meeting the strict requirements of stability and security. We were able to facilitate additional requirements, including personalized content, single sign-on, and advanced search with Solr, which could be tested locally because of the containerization, and ultimately launched the platform far ahead of SIX’s expectations — rather than requiring years, we delivered this complex solution in only two months."}}}],"summary":"amazee.io and leading Swiss digital agency, Previon Plus worked together to build a custom on-premises hosting solution for their client, SIX, the operator of the infrastructure for the Swiss financial center.","canonical_url":null,"images":[{"path":"https://images.prismic.io/amazeeio/068be6dc-5965-4f49-b883-0652bafda736_Six-Previon.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat"}]}}]}}, "staticQueryHashes": ["1659250047","2244888832","3350517190"]}