How OneAssist transitioned to AWS CloudFront achieving enhanced content delivery and minimizing data transfer costs

Industry:

Consumer Services

Headquarters:

Mumbai, India

Founded in:

2011

Company Size:

201 - 500 Employees

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Damien Camilleri

Chief Technology Officer

About

About OneAssist

OneAssist is a consumer solutions company providing a comprehensive platform for protecting and managing everyday essentials. It offers quick and reliable support to manage issues such as loss, theft, or damage to their gadgets, home appliances, financial products and more.

Values delivered

Migrated 25 domains with zero downtime.
100% traffic redirected with zero data loss.
Significant reduction in CDN costs.
Minimized latency and improved performance.
Proactive monitoring and security protocols.
Innovative configuration management.

Challenges

Costly CDN and WAF Configuration

OneAssist incurred significant costs due to high transfer fees and the complexity of maintaining Akamai’s CDN configuration and Web Application Firewall (WAF). These costs made their existing setup unsustainable.

Large-scale Migration

As OneAssist’s entire infrastructure was already hosted on AWS, transitioning all the 25 CDN domains to AWS CloudFront offered both savings and simplified management. However, this required a carefully planned migration with minimal disruptions.

Timeline and Resource Constraints

The migration had to be completed within two weeks before the Akamai contract expired, with limited skilled resources. Extensive testing requirements added to the complexity due to limited familiarity with the domains.

Feature Compatibility Challenges

Akamai supported features like URL redirection and HTTP method blocking, which CloudFront lacked natively. Mapping these functionalities required careful planning to maintain seamless operations.

Security and Configuration Gaps

Akamai’s WAF provided rate limiting in 5-second intervals, while AWS WAF supported a minimum threshold of 1-minute intervals. Additionally, CloudFront lacked versioned domain configurations, and HTTP/3 support.

Performance and Efficiency

Ensuring optimal content delivery speed, strengthening security, and streamlining ongoing management were key priorities calling for thorough planning and a systematic approach.

Solution

OneAssist leveraged CloudKeeper’s end-to-end cloud migration and cost optimization expertise, led by seasoned cloud engineers. The CK team executed the migration with strategic precision, utilizing automation and rigorous testing while working within the stringent deadline.

Flawless Migration with Zero Downtime

Seamlessly migrated over 25 domains from Akamai to AWS CloudFront, ensuring uninterrupted service, zero downtime, and no data loss throughout the transition.

Enhanced Performance and Cost Efficiency

Optimized content delivery using CloudFront’s caching and Lambda@Edge, reducing latency while eliminating data transfer costs for significant savings.

Strengthened Security and Monitoring

Implemented AWS WAF for proactive security, enabled AWS WAF logging via Amazon S3 and Athena, and set up CloudFront alarms for real-time threat detection. Adjustments were made to AWS WAF rate-based rules to align with OneAssist’s specific rate-limiting needs.

Streamlined Configuration Management

Engineered a dedicated staging distribution to mirror production, overcoming CloudFront’s lack of versioning and HTTP/3 support in staging environments.

Continuous Performance Monitoring

Deployed Route 53 health checks and CloudFront error alarms, ensuring real-time insights, high availability, and quick issue resolution.