The customer:
L1ght is a technology company that specializes in online safety solutions and digital well-being. Their mission is to create a safer and more positive digital environment by addressing the challenges posed by harmful content, cyberbullying, and online toxicity.
As an organization, L1ght is dedicated to developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, to detect and prevent harmful online behaviour. They leverage their expertise in data analysis, natural language processing, and image recognition to provide real-time monitoring and protection against harmful content across various digital platforms.
L1ght’s solutions are designed to assist social media platforms, online gaming communities, messaging apps, and other digital platforms in maintaining a safe and inclusive online experience for their users.
The goal:
Migration of L1ght’s current on-premises workload to AWS. The migration involves deploying an architecture that initially replicates the on-premises design and later transitions to an AWS serverless architecture.
Because on premises environments are limited in their ability to scale–up and out in an agile way L1ght would like the new AWS based architecture to enable it to scale fast and automatically but use the pay as you grow method and not pay up front and wait for new compute resources.
The environment must be hybrid and connect to data sources on the on-premises environment, it must be extra secured and cost optimized.
The Plan – solution:
MidLink has conducted a deep assessment process in which it fully mapped the customer assets, and understood which of these will be migrated to AWS. Then, MidLink designed a new AWS based architecture according to the AWS 7Rs principles, seven common migration strategies (7 Rs). These strategies are refactor, replatform, repurchase, rehost, relocate, retain and retire. The architecture takes into consideration all the customer goals, including:
- Easy automated scaling
- Resilient
- Secured
- Cost effectiveness
Since the environment we designed is hybrid (Cloud, On premises), we built a secure strategy to connect the on premises stack to AWS by configuring S2S VPN connection between the workloads.
The implementation:
MidLink developed a full IaC (Terraform base) coverage to deploy the AWS-based infrastructure that allows L1ght‘s workload to be hosted both on the AWS cloud and connected to an on-premises database.
By leveraging AWS services and features, such as DMS, RDS and EC2 auto scaling groups L1ght managed to reduce the cost and still serve their customers with no need for over provisioning of compute resources.
More than that by using AWS services like: AWS WAF/Shield, ALBs and multi-AZ deployments, MidLink ensured improved infrastructure agility and security for Seenity. This enables Seenity to scale resources dynamically and respond quickly to changing business demands.
