Modernizing SaaS Delivery with AWS DevOps

A leading provider of technology spend intelligence and sourcing advisory services operates a SaaS platform that helps enterprises analyze software, cloud, telecom, hardware and services spending through benchmarking, contract intelligence and spend visibility. As platform adoption grew and AI-powered capabilities and partner integrations expanded, the organization needed to improve deployment efficiency, operational reliability, security and governance while supporting continued product development.

Accion Labs partnered with the organization to modernize its AWS DevOps environment through deployment automation, Infrastructure as Code, centralized observability and security governance.

Key Improvements

• Automated application deployments using blue/green deployment strategies with Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate and AWS CodeDeploy.
• Reduced deployment duration from approximately 30 minutes to approximately five minutes through automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Amazon ECR.
• Standardized release promotion across Development, QA, UAT and Production, with isolated Sandbox environments for experimentation.
• Improved release recovery through automated rollback capabilities, reducing recovery time from approximately 50 minutes to less than two minutes.
• Strengthened security and governance through IAM Identity Center, OIDC-based authentication, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS KMS and multi-account AWS governance.
• Centralized monitoring, logging, distributed tracing and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Standardized infrastructure provisioning with reusable Terraform configurations and infrastructure drift detection.
• Reduced reliance on after-hours releases and routine manual deployment activities.
• Established a foundation for continued development of AI-powered capabilities, partner integrations and API-based services.

Technology Stack

Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Key Services and Tools: Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate, AWS CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, Amazon ECR, Terraform, AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS KMS, AWS Organizations, Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry.

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