Digital media·SimplerMedia Group
Containerising CMSWire and Reworked on AWS Fargate
Re-engineering a legacy EC2 setup into containers on Fargate, cutting operational costs by 20% and halving deployment times.
- Lower operational cost
- 20%Lower operational cost
- Faster deployments
- 50%Faster deployments
- NAT-gateway cost spike resolved
- 30%NAT-gateway cost spike resolved
For SimplerMedia’s CMSWire and Reworked sites, we re-engineered their legacy EC2 setup into Docker containers on AWS Fargate, cutting operational costs by 20%.
We introduced automated budget alerts and drilled into CloudWatch metrics to catch a 30% NAT-gateway cost spike caused by a failing ECS task. After tracing excessive API calls via CloudWatch Logs, we collaborated with AWS support to resolve the root cause.
Our team then codified the entire pipeline with Jenkins and Terraform modules, reducing deployment times by half. This project cemented a low-touch, cost-controlled architecture that scales on demand.
