Accelerating Business Resilience: Floranow’s Multi-Region DevOps Transformation on AWS

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring service continuity and minimizing downtime are critical for businesses with global reach. Floranow, a leading B2B marketplace for florists, recognized the urgent need to enhance its infrastructure resilience and accelerate deployment cycles. By partnering with SlashTEC, Floranow leveraged AWS to transition from a single-region, on-premise setup to a robust, multi-region DevOps framework.

The Challenge

Floranow faced significant operational challenges due to a single-region deployment strategy, leading to frequent service disruptions and scalability limitations. High-traffic periods exposed vulnerabilities in the infrastructure, increasing the risk of outages and impacting customer satisfaction. Additionally, the absence of automated failover and disaster recovery mechanisms posed severe business continuity risks.

The Solution: Building a Multi-Region DevOps Framework on AWS

To address these challenges, SlashTEC implemented a comprehensive AWS-native DevOps strategy tailored to Floranow’s operational needs:

1- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 

Deployed Terraform to standardize infrastructure provisioning, enabling rapid and consistent deployments across multiple AWS regions (us-east-1 for development and eu-west-1 for production).

2- CI/CD Automation:

Integrated Jenkins for continuous integration on EC2, building Docker images and pushing them to Amazon ECR for version-controlled container storage.

Implemented ArgoCD for Helm-based deployments to Amazon EKS, reducing manual intervention and ensuring consistent updates.

3- Resilient Database Management:

Migrated to Amazon RDS (MariaDB) with multi-AZ deployment, ensuring automatic failover and data redundancy.Enabled cross-region read replicas to reduce latency and enhance data availability during peak traffic.

4- Dynamic Configuration Management:

Transitioned from AWS Secrets Manager to AWS AppConfig, allowing for real-time configuration updates without application restarts, thus reducing deployment risk.

5- Optimized Storage & Caching:

Leveraged Amazon EFS for shared storage across EKS nodes and Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) for caching frequently accessed data, improving response times and reducing database load.

6- Monitoring & Observability:

Implemented AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and log management, facilitating quick issue identification and resolution.

Business Impact 

The multi-region DevOps transformation enabled Floranow to achieve:

A- 4x Increase in Deployment Frequency: From monthly to weekly releases.

B- 96% Reduction in Deployment Time: From over 4 hours to under 15 minutes.

C- 99.95% Service Availability: Ensured continuous uptime through automated failover and multi-region architecture.

D- 25% Reduction in Operational Costs: Achieved through optimized resource allocation and automated scaling.

Conclusion

The DevOps transformation not only addressed Floranow’s immediate challenges but also positioned the company for future scalability and operational resilience. By leveraging AWS-native services and implementing a robust CI/CD pipeline, Floranow now benefits from a scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure, ready to handle global business growth.