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Building Multi-Region Resilience for a Leading B2B Travel Platform with AWS Control Tower and Amazon EKS
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Building Multi-Region Resilience for a Leading B2B Travel Platform with AWS Control Tower and Amazon EKS
A leading B2B travel platform partnered with Aivar to migrate their application environments from GCP to a highly available, multi-region AWS architecture, leveraging AWS Control Tower, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL), and AWS DMS. The cloud-native container and serverless architecture successfully transitioned critical workloads and a large-scale database, delivering zero-downtime database migration, utmost performance and scalability, and a robust security posture through a comprehensive AWS Landing Zone.
KPI Definition
Importance
Customer Challenge

A B2B platform serving a global network of travel agents previously hosted their core application workloads and databases on GCP. To maintain rapid business growth and address scaling and performance bottlenecks in their existing environment, the client required a move to a new cloud platform. The primary challenges were:

  • The need to transition their complex application environments and Kubernetes clusters to AWS to achieve utmost performance and scalability.
  • The mandate to implement a multi-region architecture for high redundancy, disaster recovery, and enhanced business continuity.
  • The critical requirement for a zero-downtime migration of their high-volume PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS, minimizing disruption for travel agents globally.
Solution

Aivar partnered with the client to execute an Infrastructure/Workload Migration (IWMigrate) project, creating a production-ready, highly resilient, and secure AWS environment. The solution focused on a foundation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and a secure Multi-Account Landing Zone using AWS Control Tower.

The implemented platform streamlines operations, ensures high availability, and enforces compliance at scale by:

  • Establishing a secure, compliant, and scalable foundation using AWS Control Tower with mandatory guardrails and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
  • Deploying core application workloads into managed, multi-AZ Amazon EKS Clusters and utilizing AWS Lambda for serverless components.
  • Migrating the PostgreSQL database to a highly available, encrypted Amazon RDS instance using AWS DMS for continuous replication and a seamless cutover.
  • Implementing a comprehensive security layer using AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) and continuous monitoring with AWS Security Hub (enforcing standards like NIST and FSBP).
Architecture

he solution uses a combination of AWS foundational, container, data, and security services to ensure high availability, compliance, and enterprise-grade security for the client's platform:

  • AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations establish the secure Multi-Account Landing Zone, providing automated governance and enforcing compliance across the entire environment.
  • Amazon EKS Clusters and AWS Lambda serve as the core compute layer, hosting the application in private subnets and ensuring high scalability for containerized and serverless workloads.
  • Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL), with multi-AZ and read replica configuration, provides a highly available and encrypted relational data store.
  • AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) ensures continuous, zero-downtime replication from the legacy GCP database to the new Amazon RDS instance.
  • AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, and AWS WAF deliver centralized security monitoring, threat detection for data services (RDS, S3, EBS, EKS), and protection against common web exploits.
  • Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail provide centralized logging, monitoring, and auditing of all API calls and operational metrics for complete oversight and transparency.
Key Outcomes
  • Zero Downtime Migration: The production database cutover was successfully executed within the agreed maintenance window using AWS DMS, ensuring uninterrupted service for travel agents.
  • Utmost Scalability and Performance: The transition to a resilient, redundant, and multi-region architecture was completed, ready to handle current and future surges in B2B travel operations.
  • Robust Security Posture: A full Control Tower Landing Zone with stringent guardrails was deployed, ensuring all workloads operate under a strict security and compliance framework (NIST & FSBP standards).
  • Operational Excellence: The project delivered a fully documented and automated environment, confirming operational readiness and control for all migrated workloads.
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