Eric Byron, Director, Client ServicesÂ
As we learned last week, cloud adoption is reaching ubiquity (click here to read full article). Let’s recap why companies use cloud:
Why Use Cloud?
The reasons for using cloud will vary depending on how you intend to use it, but here are some of the top reasons:
- Access Freedom – Employees, clients, end customers all can access the applications remotely in the office and on the go, from any device of their choice.
- Flexible & Scalable – Choose the configuration, mix and match software, and run the business applications within minutes and derive metrics to select the one that suits your needs best.
- Cost Reduction – Highly efficient use of resources to shadow the capacity eliminates the exorbitant cost of in-house hardware and subsequent administration. With cloud you pay only for what you use.
- Automatic Updates – Maintenance free to a large extent the provider takes the responsibility of updating and upgrading the software.Â
Switching from in-house to Cloud: a Real World Example of Using Cloud to Your Advantage
Recently Dextrys was building a native mobile app (for iOS and Android) for a well-known provider of products and services that promote healthy lifestyle. After a successful roll-out in North America, our client wanted to establish their presence in South America. During the development process, they faced a challenge:
- New product required a reliable infrastructure to support the emerging market.
- Corporate informed the client that it would take 6 months at a prohibitive price to set up the infrastructure in-house, which would undermine product launch.
Once again, the client came to us and in addition to building their product and supporting it during development, testing and launch, Dextrys set up exactly the system they wanted, built from the ground up, including cloud infrastructure design for development, QA and production environments. In addition our team guided the client through setup and procurement process with AWS.
Benefits:Â
- Flexibility: we were able to setup separate environments for Dev, QA and Production quickly and easily, — and we were able to set them up as we were ready to start populating production data prior to launch.
- Security: we leveraged the security capabilities and features provided by Amazon including:
- Secure access
- Built-in firewalls
- Unique users
- Private Subnets
- Trusted Advisor (Provided through Premium support)
We established multiple security groups (ELB, App, Cache, and RDS) for tight control of each component of the environment.
- Cost: the costs during development and testing phases were almost ridiculously low, less than $2,000 for the first 2 months. With the addition of the production environment the cost goes up incrementally, not dramatically, and their costs will only rise based on demand, so as their user base and revenue grows they can scale the infrastructure as needed. They will only pay for what they need, when they need it.  Overall cost savings of choosing cloud over in-house is several hundred  thousand dollars.
- Reliability: we have been able to establish comprehensive application performance testing with JMeter to monitor any changes in systems performance and are leveraging AWS hosting environments dashboards to monitor the infrastructure for any performance or stability issues. Throughout development the environments have been stable and consistent.
Cloud Computing with Dextrys
Dextrys is a US-based software outsourcing company that provides solutions using cloud computing to clients worldwide. Our expertise in solving complex business problems such as distributed Agile development in the cloud, large deployment and testing via simulating real time environments have significantly reduced costs and time for our clients.
Click here to find out more about Dextrys cloud services.
