Power Your Business ahead with an Amazon ECS Partner

In a significant stride toward cloud computing excellence, Simform proudly announces its achievement of the prestigious AWS ECS service delivery partnership. Simform is one of the first AWS ECS SDP partners to achieve this milestone. This achievement underscores Simform’s commitment to delivering top-tier AWS ECS services and solidifies its position as a trailblazer in the world of containerization.

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) has revolutionized how organizations deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. While realizing its full potential can be complex, Simform, your trusted AWS ECS service delivery partner, simplifies this journey. This recognition is a testament to our expertise in delivering efficient AWS ECS solutions. With exceptional capabilities in containerization and orchestration, we share our journey in this blog and demonstrate how collaborating with Simform, an AWS ECS service delivery partner, maximizes your cloud benefits.

Simform’s Amazon ECS Service Delivery Partnership is your gateway to unleashing the full potential of ECS for your business. With our certified AWS experts at your side, you can streamline container management, achieve seamless load balancing, and ensure secure container orchestration.

For example, a rapidly growing e-commerce platform can benefit from our efficient auto-scaling capabilities during peak seasons. This ensures your platform stays responsive and provides an uninterrupted shopping experience to the customers. Similarly, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider can leverage our ECS expertise to deliver on-demand scalability and meet diverse client demands.

Through our reliable Amazon ECS services, you can efficiently manage containerized applications, reduce operational complexities, and enhance overall productivity. We provide comprehensive support, ensuring a smooth transition to ECS and ongoing management for sustained success.

Simform is a product engineering company that helps businesses build innovative digital solutions. We have a team of experienced engineers who are experts in cloud services, particularly AWS.

As an AWS partner for various competencies, Simform is committed to following AWS best practices in all cloud solutions. This ensures we leverage the latest AWS services and features while adhering to stringent security and compliance guidelines. Plus, Simform has a deep understanding of containerization. With expertise in using Docker to create and manage containers, we specialize in deploying containers efficiently on AWS. Our expertise extends to Kubernetes, a powerful container orchestration platform, further enhancing our capabilities in delivering robust AWS solutions.

Central to our Amazon ECS delivery partnership are the customer success stories we proudly submitted. These stories exemplify how we empower businesses to achieve scalable and resilient application deployments with Amazon ECS. Let’s take a look at the customer success stories that helped us attain the Amazon ECS service delivery partnership.

A scalable parking and valet management system

Our client operates a centralized cloud-based parking management platform that helps organizations manage parking spaces, enhance user experiences, and maximize revenue generation.

Challenges

• Difficulty in managing parking and valet services without a proper systemand lack of real-time data visibility for diverse users.
• Manual record-keeping and scheduling, which may sometimes resultin inefficiencies and difficulties in allocating valet services on time.
• Challenges due to the absence ofreservations and delays in parking lot bookings.
• Inability to acquire meaningful insights into user behavior, hindering data-driven decision-making for business growth.
• Need for easy-to-manage and less error-prone infrastructure, along with common access and security management.
• Client’s requirement for a reliable and secure code implementation.
• Need fora highly available and cost-effective infrastructure solution.

Solutions

• We built a secure microservices-based architecturethat handled third-party integrations and user modules effectively.
• The containerized architecture of Amazon ECS enabled easy deployment and management, resulting in optimal performance and resource utilization.
• Amazon ECS allowed for a shared infrastructure approach, ensuring data isolation for each tenant with their dedicated containerized environment and database.
• Role-based access control (RBAC) between ECS tasks and RDS enhanced security and data segregation.
• Dashboards, reports, and visualizations empowered users with valuable insights and improved day-to-day activities.
• Our solution helped uncover insights like the best-selling time slot, enabling data-driven decisions for business optimization.

Key results

• A 20% increase in managed parking spaces for the client.
• 40% reduction in time required to find the available parking slot
• 99% reduction in downtime.
• 10X improvement in MTTR

A complete car and car accessories buying solution

Our client offers a complete one-stop solution for all car buying needs.

Challenges

• Building an efficient and secure multi-tenant solution with proper trade recommendation service for second-hand cars.
• Ensuring the database complies with data protection policies and regulatory requirements.
• Configuring AWS resources and environment to maintain compliance and promptly notify the security team of violations.
• Making infrastructure management less error-prone.

Solutions

• Our solution enabled the client to check eligible customers and generate deals efficiently by leveraging a combination of AWS Lambda functions and DynamoDB.
• We seamlessly integrated third-party tools like Iterable and Voile within the Amazon ECS infrastructure, ensuring effective marketing automation and lead nurturing processes.
• Displaying the best trades for vehicle upgrades became effortless with Offerlogix, a recommendation engine integrated with Amazon ECS, while Amazon RDS served as the reliable data storage service for trade-related data.
• Finance-related calculations were streamlined with AWS Lambda functions within the Amazon ECS environment, providing quick and accurate results to users.
• We crafted a robust and secure multi-tenant solution for CarSaver using Amazon ECS along with Amazon Aurora and AWS Backup to ensure compliance with data protection policies and data retention requirements.
• By employing the AWS CDK, we implemented infrastructure-as-code deployment, seamlessly integrated with Amazon ECS and CloudFormation. This enabled consistent and efficient resource deployment.
• To manage common access and security requirements, we designed a Hub and Spoke networking model utilizing AWS native networking tools and IAM roles, ensuring centralized management and robust security measures.

Key results

• 40-50% reduction in development and staging costs.
• Faster provisioning with infrastructure as code.
• Granular IAM-based access control enforced for all AWS services within ECS, enhancing security and minimizing unauthorized access.

Simform is an Amazon ECS Partner with a deep understanding of containerization. We help businesses harness the scalability and reliability of Amazon ECS to deploy and manage containerized applications.

Our team of certified AWS professionals will work with you to understand your needs and develop a containerization solution that meets your specific requirements. We will help you transition existing applications to containers or build new applications from the ground up.

With Simform’s help, you can:

• Deploy containerized applications quickly and easily
• Ensure optimal performance and scalability
• Integrate your containerized applications with other AWS services
• Simplify your container management

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with your containerization needs.