Kubernetes & Modernization

IBL: EKS modernization via NorthBay

Islam Ali modernized a private-cloud monolith to Amazon EKS via NorthBay Solutions, with Terraform and a reported 30% monthly cloud cost reduction.

Published by ARCOTechnical contact: Islam AliLast updated Client · IBLSector · Enterprise application platform All outcomes
Engagement impact
30%

reported monthly cloud cost reduction

The portfolio reports a 30% reduction in monthly cloud costs.
Improved scaling and resilience across availability zones.

DevOps consulting delivered by Islam Ali via NorthBay Solutions for the IBL project.

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01 · Business pressure

What had to change.

A legacy monolith on private-cloud infrastructure was costly to operate and difficult to scale. The enterprise project needed a secure multi-account AWS foundation, repeatable deployments and improved resilience. Islam Ali delivered the DevOps work through NorthBay Solutions.

Client
IBL
Environment
Enterprise application platform
Priority
Kubernetes & Modernization
02 · Engineering response

How the team moved from finding to action.

Each workstream was tied to a practical implementation decision and an implementation outcome.

1

Migrated the monolith from private cloud to Amazon EKS Auto Mode.

2

Established a multi-account landing zone using AWS Control Tower.

3

Used EKS Pod Identity, least-privilege IAM and AWS Secrets Manager for workload access.

4

Implemented Terraform with remote state and deployments through AWS CodePipeline.

5

Designed multi-AZ workloads with autoscaling and Pod Disruption Budgets for controlled voluntary disruptions.

03 · Published engagement outcome
30%

reported monthly cloud cost reduction

The portfolio reports a 30% reduction in monthly cloud costs.
Improved scaling and resilience across availability zones.
Repeatable infrastructure and automated deployments replaced manual operating steps.
Capabilities behind the outcome
Managed AWS DevOps AWS Cloud Migration AWS landing zone consulting CI/CD Engineering

Technology used

  • Amazon EKS Auto Mode
  • AWS Control Tower
  • Terraform
  • AWS CodePipeline
  • EKS Pod Identity
  • Secrets Manager

Evidence behind the work

Project accounts and delivery artifacts supplied by Islam Ali. Open an extract to inspect its detail.

Portfolio account: private-cloud modernization, EKS, Terraform and reported cost outcome. Delivery was via NorthBay Solutions.
Architecture excerpt with the internal project label redacted. Account boundaries cover logs, audit, security, networking and workloads.

IBL evidence

Delivery was through NorthBay Solutions. The portfolio reports a 30% monthly cost reduction; billing windows and a normalized calculation are not published. Pod Disruption Budgets control voluntary disruptions; availability still depends on workload and failure design.

Amazon EKS Auto Mode; Kubernetes disruption budgets and limitations.

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