“While they’re an international company, they have a strong local team in the region, providing a comprehensive portfolio of quality infrastructure and DevOps services. They’re incredibly responsive and quick to address any question or concern, making sound recommendations for increased efficiencies and reduced costs.”
— Manager of Digital Projects at a luxury automobile dealership in UAE
The dealership listed specific business and technical requirements for the new mobile application to ensure they retained customer focus while increasing competitive differentiation. With a focus on agility and flexibility, the dealership wanted a modern architecture enabling them to:
While a third-party developer built the mobile app, the dealership turned to their preferred IT partner, Bespin MEA, to provide the required infrastructure and DevOps services. Based on a long and successful partnership, Bespin already managed all of the company’s hosted AWS solutions.
In collaboration with the app developer, Bespin developed an architecture to meet the dealership’s DevOps requirements. While all of the company’s other solutions run on virtual machines hosted on AWS, Bespin designed a modern, pay-per-use AWS architecture using containers and microservices. Bespin’s team provided end-to-end services for the engagement, including root cause analysis, data gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, automation testing, and documentation.
This solution runs three (one public and private) cross-functional micro-services using Docker containers on AWS Fargate with different staging and production areas. Abstracting complex cluster setup and management, AWS Fargate automatically scales as you grow. It eliminates the operational overhead of managing, patching, scaling, and securing servers to achieve fault tolerance, workload isolation, and enhanced security.
To minimize the overhead of operating container repositories and scaling the underlying infrastructure, Bespin used Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). ECR is a fully-managed Docker container registry, simplifying the storage, management, and deployment of Docker container images. The integration of AWS ECR with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides resource-level control of each repository. Complementing Amazon ECR, Bespin used Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to streamline the development-to-production workflow. Verification of new containers’ health and functionality takes place before draining old container instances, ensuring zero downtime.
Container images are stored in and retrieved from AWS CodeCommit, compiled using AWS CodeBuild, and deployed using AWS CodeDeploy. A fully managed continuous integration service, AWS CodeBuild compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready to deploy software packages. A fully managed deployment service eliminating error-prone manual operations, AWS CodeDeploy automates the deployment of Docker containers to AWS Fargate. Also, each microservice has its own AWS CodePipeline to quickly and reliably automate and orchestrate services’ deployment.
The sub-domain used to serve the application is hosted on Amazon Route 53. Traffic is redirected via AWS CloudFront using custom SSL certificates provisioned using AWS Certificate Manager. Amazon CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Amazon Route 53 work seamlessly to create a flexible, layered security perimeter. The combination of capabilities protects against multiple types of attacks, including network and application layer DDoS attacks. Co-residing at the AWS edge, these services provide a high-performance, reliable, and scalable security perimeter for the application. The entire AWS environment is monitored via AWS CloudTrail, simplifying operational analysis, and troubleshooting.
With 2,000 downloads before launching the app through a focused marketing campaign, the dealership has already seen the benefits of the AWS architecture designed, built, and deployed by Bespin. Reducing TCO and improving ROI, the microservices architecture allows them to scale each service up or down independently, reducing AWS costs by up to 50%. And with an integrated continuous delivery and testing process, microservices are easier to debug, test, and maintain, delivering error-free applications for accelerated deployment.
And the partnership with Bespin?
According to the company, one of the key benefits of working with Bespin is their natural ability to take ownership—even when working with third parties. “You just have to mention something to Bespin, and it’s as good as done. It doesn’t matter what it is or who’s involved; you don’t have to worry about it. You know Bespin will look after it. Everything runs smoothly.”
“Bespin is the first number we call for anything IT,” states the Manager of Digital Projects. ”While they’re an international company, they have a strong local team in the region providing, a comprehensive portfolio of quality infrastructure and DevOps services. They’re incredibly responsive and quick to address any question or concern, making sound recommendations to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Their indepth knowledge and excellent service are the primary reasons they’re our infrastructure partner.”
“You just have to mention something to Bespin, and it’s as good as done. It doesn’t matter what it is or who’s involved; you don’t have to worry about it. You know Bespin will look after it. Everything runs smoothly.”
“Bespin is the first number we call for anything IT. Their indepth knowledge and excellent service are the primary reasons they’re our infrastructure partner.”
“While they’re an international company, they have a strong local team in the region, providing a comprehensive portfolio of quality infrastructure and DevOps services. They’re incredibly responsive and quick to address any question or concern, making sound recommendations for increased efficiencies and reduced costs.”
Manager of Digital Projects at a luxury automobile dealership in UAE
An AWS Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Partner, BESPIN GLOBAL is a leading provider of automated cloud solutions and consulting services including cloud strategy, migration, implementation, DevOps, and Big Data. Positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Bespin offers the industry’s most automated, end-to-end cloud management platform. Bespin OpsNow enables customers to consolidate, visualize, and manage distributed, multi-cloud assets within a single solution, optimizing resources and reducing cost by 30% or more.
