Migrating to a Secure and Scalable Future: How Vontech Group is Empowering Adhome Solutions with AWS
CarAid is an innovative startup reshaping how car owners receive emergency support—offering on-the-spot battery replacements, tyre swaps, jumpstarts, and more, all through a responsive mobile platform. To scale its services and deliver smarter, faster support to users, CarAid partnered with Vontech Group to rearchitect its infrastructure using AWS.
The Challenge
Adhome Solutions faced the following challenges with their existing infrastructure:
- Distributed Infrastructure: Adhome Solutions had a distributed infrastructure with components hosted across multiple providers, including DigitalOcean, Koyeb, Render, and Cloudflare. This added complexity to management, monitoring, and scalability. Specifically, they had:
- MySQL database and Redis cache on DigitalOcean.
- Node.js backend on Koyeb.
- React applications on AWS (SSR) and Render (static sites).
- Amazon SES integrated into their Node.js backend for email sending.
- Cloudinary for image storage.
- Cloudflare for web app monitoring and DNS management.
- Lack of Centralization: The lack of a centralized platform made it difficult to maintain consistency, enforce security policies, and optimize costs.
- Scalability Concerns: Their existing infrastructure may have presented challenges in scaling resources efficiently to meet growing user demands.
- Migration to AWS: Adhome Solutions needed to migrate their entire infrastructure from its current state to AWS.
The Solution
- Centralized AWS Infrastructure: The solution consolidates Adhome Solutions’ infrastructure onto AWS, providing a centralized platform for management and operations.
- Scalable Architecture: The architecture is designed to scale, enabling Adhome Solutions to handle increased traffic and user growth. Key components include:
- Compute: Amazon EC2 instances within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to automatically adjust capacity.
- Database: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to manage data using database engines like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Caching: Amazon ElastiCache for in-memory data storage to improve application performance.
- Storage: Amazon S3 for scalable and cost-effective object storage.
- Networking:
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to logically isolate resources.
- Availability Zones (AZs) in the EU (Ireland) region for fault tolerance and high availability.
- Internet Gateway to enable communication between the VPC and the internet.
- Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute application workloads across multiple instances.
- NAT Gateway to allow instances in private subnets to connect to external services.
- Amazon Route 53 for DNS routing and domain registration.
- Security:
- Security Groups to control inbound and outbound traffic.
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to create and manage SSL/TLS certificates.
- Migration Plan: Vontech Group developed a detailed migration plan, including:
- Project Overview: Defining the scope, goals, and key stakeholders.
- Timeline: Estimating the duration and resources required for each step.
- Security and Compliance: Implementing measures like data encryption, access control, and network security.
- Cost Optimization: Identifying opportunities to minimize expenses.
- Communication and Change Management: Keeping stakeholders informed and providing necessary training.
- Testing and Validation: Ensuring successful migration through rigorous testing.
- Post-Migration Support: Providing ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.
- Handoff and Documentation: Delivering comprehensive documentation for managing the new environment.
Result
- Successfully migrated to AWS with $5,000 startup credit support.
- Reduced response latency for mobile users across regions.
- Improved application security and authentication workflows.
- Set the foundation for AI-enabled customer support and logistics.
- Achieved high availability and scalability without added infrastructure costs
Final Thoughts
By migrating to AWS and leveraging a serverless, modular design, CarAid is now primed for the future. The architecture supports both current service delivery and planned AI enhancements, all while improving performance, reducing costs, and enhancing user experience.
Looking to modernize your business like CarAid? Partner with Vontech Group today to unleash the power of AWS.
