Cost-Effective & Scalable AWS Infrastructure for a Trading Platform Share: Greg Solutions Score Awaiting client review n/a Date Published 20 October 2020 Reading Time 3-Minute Read Implementing AWS Infrastructure with the main focus on scalability and cost-efficiency. About the Client MyBotGarage is an innovative cloud-based, high-frequency trading platform for digital assets. It is a simple, profitable and efficient way to trade on the world’s fastest-growing crypto market called Binance Futures. The Challenge The client was looking for DevOps engineers familiar with the specifics of Blockchain, cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges. Greg Solutions, as a company working with both DevOps and Blockchain, was a natural fit. Our engineers provided their expertise with cloud infrastructure design, the creation of managed Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD integration and security testing with DevSecOps. We built a scalable, cost-efficient and fault-tolerant trading platform, which can be integrated with various crypto marketplaces such as Binance. Goals Build a reliable, scalable and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for the сryptocurrency trading platform. Enable all the necessary disaster recovery procedures for both the app and its infrastructure. Develop and integrate the systems with CI/CD. Ensure the system scalability. Strengthen system security from the infrastructure side. Integrate Infrastructure as a Code into the Agile application development process. Results Designed and implemented an AWS infrastructure Using Terraform for the Infrastructure as a Code approach. Decreased infrastructure costs by 82% In comparison with standard infrastructure design and regular infrastructure costs. Deployed AWS Elastic Kubernetes clusters For the unified application hosting with advanced monitoring and scaling. Deployed scalable proxy services on top of Elastic Container Service To distribute the workload for the interaction with external services and have a cost-effective pool of external IP addresses. Designed a scaling process Using application metrics, Prometheus and bespoke scale components. Implemented & Configured CI/CD pipelines Implemented and configured Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines for multiple applications. Configured centralized monitoring Configured monitoring for the underlying AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters and platform applications Logging: Implemented logging procedures Implemented logging procedures for the infrastructure & applications. Conducted a penetration analysis Conducted a penetration analysis of the infrastructure using DevSecOps practices. Increased infrastructure disaster recovery potential Using Terraform and the Infrastructure as a Code approach. Client’s Feedback “The Greg Solutions team really knows what they are doing. We were struggling with some architecture issues and thought that there was no way to fix them in a way that’s both easy and scalable, but after just a few meetings with the experts at Greg Solutions they came up with elegant, easy and scalable solutions. Moreover, we’ve already got a POC solution that fulfills our needs. As a Product Owner, I truly enjoyed working with Greg Solutions, these guys catch everything on the go and there is no reason to worry about timing and quality. During our cooperation we received numerous ideas, proposals and hints about how to improve our cloud platform solution. They are genuine pros with a high level of investigation and problem-solving skills.” Andriy Rohalya CEO @ MyBotGarage Technology Stack AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Docker, Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service), AWS KMS, Amazon ECR, Amazon SQS, AWS RDS, Jenkins, AWS WorkMail, Prometheus, Grafana, Let’s Encrypt, GoCD, Atlassian BitBucket.