Containers Customer Stories

Snap uses Kubernetes to solve the problems of managing a large set of services, and EKS is helping to run over 2 million transactions per second. Through EKS and ECR, Snap has realized a 77% reduction in developer effort for launching new microservices.

We chose the solution of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate for a variety of reasons: It’s a fully distributed architecture, it enables DevSecOps patterns, was backwards compatible with our legacy container orchestration platform, is fully automated and automatable, is secure by default, is cost effective, and enables NoOps patterns.

Using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, we've gone from weekly deployments to deployments that we do multiple times a day, and from what used to be hours of at least two engineers' time, we've been able to shave that down to several minutes.

Using Amazon EKS, we were able to reduce our Amazon EC2 footprint from over 2,000 instances to less than 500 in a few years. We have been able to build an enterprise-scale managed Kubernetes platform to support our business and drive innovation.

At Vodafone Digital UK, we initially built our service containers to run on AWS using the Amazon ECS orchestration layer on Amazon EC2. Once our platform started growing and experiencing scaling challenges, the Digital Architects looked at AWS Fargate to mitigate the growing pains and improve our platform stability...by removing the complexity of infrastructure management and shifting some responsibilities like OS hardening and patching onto AWS, we can reduce the amount of resources we spend on these tasks and instead focus on adding value to our Vodafone customers.