Migrating from Heroku to AWS EKS
| nmb@konfitech.com
Challenge: Migrating from Heroku to AWS EKS can be a complex process.
A software development company (confidential) experienced limitations and rising costs with their existing platform hosted on Heroku. As their traffic increased, Heroku's limitations became apparent, impacting their ability to scale effectively. Moving from Heroku to AWS EKS, they sought a solution that offered:
- Scalability: Accommodate growing user traffic without performance issues. Migrating Heroku to AWS EKS addressed this.
- Cost Optimization: Reduce overall cloud infrastructure costs.
- Improved Efficiency: Streamline web application management.
Solution:
Konfitech, a leading IT company specializing in cloud solutions, partnered with the company to migrate their Ruby on Rails (RoR) application with backend Sidekiq workers from Heroku to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This Heroku to AWS EKS migration enabled them to leverage AWS's capabilities.
Benefits:
- Successful Migration: The application was successfully migrated to a new, scalable, and cost-optimized infrastructure on AWS.
- Enhanced Scalability: The company gained the flexibility to scale up or down resources seamlessly based on real-time needs after moving from Heroku to AWS EKS.
- High Availability: By deploying the application across diverse Availability Zones (AZs) within AWS, the company achieved high fault tolerance and reduced downtime risks.
- Cost Transparency: Detailed cost analysis through AWS tools provided valuable insights for accurate financial forecasting and optimization.
- Improved Performance: The new cloud setup offered enhanced performance for the web application.
- Increased Efficiency: The company streamlined its web app environment management, allowing developers to focus on core development tasks.
This case study demonstrates Konfitech's expertise in leveraging AWS solutions to empower businesses with efficient and scalable cloud infrastructure, enabling them to focus on core business activities.
Key Solution Used:
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for migrating from Heroku to AWS EKS.
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