In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare technology, our client, a leading healthcare network, faced significant operational hurdles. These challenges ranged from skill set deficiencies in managing complex cloud infrastructure to performance bottlenecks impacting their reputation. The journey to overcome these obstacles led them to Ignitec, whose innovative solutions have transformed their operations, yielding impressive results.
- Skill Set Deficiency: The healthcare network struggled to efficiently manage and operate their complex cloud infrastructure, lacking the necessary expertise.
- Performance Bottlenecks: Application performance issues led to a decline in reputation and recognition, affecting their overall service delivery.
- Backup and Recovery: A critical need was to design a reliable backup recovery solution to quickly recover from failures.
- Kubernetes Management: The initial in-house tools used for Kubernetes adoption posed significant operational challenges, with high management loads and problematic version upgrades.
Ignitec's Strategic Solutions:
Ignitec implemented a comprehensive suite of solutions to address Leading Healthcare Network's specific needs:
- EKS Workload Provisioning and Migration: Ignitec provisioned new EKS workloads with version upgrades, migrating all public worker nodes to private subnets, ensuring enhanced security and performance.
- Multi-AZ Aurora Cluster: A Multi-AZ Aurora Cluster was set up with primary and replica nodes spread across availability zones, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Efficient Resource Utilization: Consolidating Nginx Ingress controllers with Network Load Balancers led to efficient resource utilization.
- Advanced Encryption: Data at rest was secured with 2048-bit encryption under KMS compliance, while data in transit was encrypted via Mutual TLS Encryption using AWS Private CA.
- CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: A new Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline was established, enabling faster and more efficient deployments.
- Failover Solutions: Multi-AZ Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) and RDS Aurora were employed for hassle-free failovers.
- Scalability and Reliability: Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter were set up for massive scalability and reliability.
- Service Mesh Implementation: ISTIO distributed network service mesh was implemented for microservice communication offloading, enhancing network management.
Ignitec's solutions delivered a transformative impact on Leading Healthcare Network's cloud infrastructure:
- Operational Cost Reduction: The healthcare network saw a 70% reduction in operational costs.
- Efficient Management: The solution managed VMs, databases, Kubernetes, cache, and more, streamlining operations.
- Cost Savings: Intelligent capacity provisioning saved up to 40% in infrastructure costs by avoiding underutilization or overprovisioning of EC2 instances.
- Productivity Boost: CI/CD pipelines accelerated time-to-market and boosted productivity by 95%, allowing the development team to focus on innovation.
- Automated Load Balancing: With Istio and AWS NLB, automated load balancing for all microservices traffic was achieved, featuring advanced capabilities like canary rollouts.
- Rapid Failovers: The time required for performing failovers during release issues was cut by 95%.
- Enhanced Recovery Objectives: The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) was met as low as an hour, and the mean time to recover improved by 30%.
Ignitec's tailored solutions have not only resolved the pressing issues faced by the leading healthcare network but also set a new benchmark in operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The healthcare network is now better equipped to deliver superior services, ensuring their continued growth and success in the healthcare industry.
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