Fintech purchasing platform maximizes velocity and security through full automation with Terraform and AWS ECS on AWS Fargate

Solution

A Caylent engineering pod was engaged to provide Order with the flexibility and range of AWS skill sets required. Caylent began improving their legacy infrastructure provisioning process by implementing Terraform Cloud and building Terraform CI/CD pipelines unique to Order’s needs. This greatly reduced the number of manual tasks and the time needed to manage, monitor and deploy, adding velocity to future builds.

An area where Order particularly desired support with identifying and implementing best practices, was around security and observability. Caylent and Order’s teams worked closely together and Caylent identified several best practices and policies to improve upon their existing AWS multi-account structure. Caylent also leveraged AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch to create log tracking for their AWS environment and Terraform pipelines, enabling Order to have observability and clear understanding of their infrastructure’s operations and performance.

Order’s infrastructure has been transitioning to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate but had some legacy uses on Amazon ECS on Amazon EC2 which limited security robustness and created unnecessary patching and management work. Caylent quickly identified a route to remediate the blockers and transitioned across the board to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. This shift made access sharing significantly easier and more secure across the organization, simplified enabling scalability and removed unnecessary management work by fully leveraging AWS Fargate’s serverless feature set.

Outcome

This close partnership between our teams has allowed Order to leverage best practices and remediate known gaps in the environment while allowing the organization to continue working at the velocity needed to support their growth. By working with Caylent to create necessary background processes and procedures, as well as offloading core DevOps work, Order’s infrastructure is in a great position to effectively scale without complications.

In addition to implementing fully automated CI/CD pipelines with the latest version of Terraform, Order are now fully leveraging Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate, and have improved security policies.

The next phase of the partnership includes recreating the data architecture critical to their platform, leveraging AWS native tools, completing and remediating a Well-Architected Review, and continued DevOps support and strategy.