nClouds Client StoryLYT

Why AWS and nClouds

LYT was introduced to nClouds by the AWS account team. nClouds is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with AWS-certified expertise in DevOps, SaaS, Migration, Well-Architected, and other areas that were relevant to LYT. nClouds conducted an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) powered by nOps. The Review identified several high-priority remediation items, encompassing the security, cost optimization, and reliability pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices. LYT’s SaaS platform is on AWS, and the company wanted to partner with nClouds to build out a modern, containerized application architecture to enhance high availability (HA), scalability, and fault tolerance for its function protocols.

LYT leverages several Amazon Web Services:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - A web service that provides LYT with secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) - A fully managed Docker container registry integrated with Amazon ECS that makes it easy for LYT to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - A highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and enables LYT to run and scale containerized applications on AWS easily.
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis - An in-memory data structure service to enhance the ease-of-use and power of Redis, and improve availability, reliability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service - A fully managed service that makes it easy for LYT to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch at scale with zero downtime.
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) - Enables LYT to provision a logically isolated section on AWS where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
• AWS Application Load Balancer (AWS ALB) - To support content-based routing and applications that run in containers.
• AWS Auto Scaling - Monitors LYT’s applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.
• AWS CloudFormation (CloudFormation) - Allows LYT to treat its infrastructure as code, automate operations, and bring up new environments.
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - To control users' access to AWS services.
• AWS Secrets Manager - Enables LYT to protect secrets needed to access its applications, services, and IT resources.

LYT’s solution stack also includes additional, essential third-party tools:

• Atlassian Bitbucket - A Git-based source code repository hosting service.
• Datadog - A monitoring and analytics tool to determine performance metrics and event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases, and tools.
• Docker - An open-source container platform to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
• ELK Stack - Gives LYT the ability to aggregate logs from all systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application and infrastructure monitoring, faster troubleshooting, security analytics, and more.
• Jenkins - An open-source automation server written in Java to support CI/CD.