Cylana is a leading cybersecurity company that provides innovative solutions for domain scanning, vulnerability detection, and asset monitoring to protect businesses’ digital assets. With features such as OSINT, fraud detection, website scanning, and email leakage prevention, Cylana empowers organizations to strengthen their security posture. Their mission is to provide comprehensive visibility and protection to secure the digital presence of businesses across industries.

Customer Challenge

Cylana initially operated its services on Docker environments, leveraging a Docker-in-Docker setup for running various security processes. While functional, this approach introduced inefficiencies, including higher operational overhead, suboptimal resource utilization, and difficulties in scaling services for increasing customer demands.

The customer needed a modern, scalable infrastructure that could handle complex workloads, reduce operational complexity, and improve resource efficiency. Additionally, they sought to streamline their deployment processes and eliminate the limitations of their existing architecture, such as the need to manually manage services and limited observability into resource usage.

Partner Solution

To address Cylana’s challenges, we implemented a cloud migration and modernization solution leveraging Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) as the foundation for their infrastructure. This transition streamlined their security operations, optimized resource allocation, and provided a more scalable and resilient architecture.

• Amazon EKS: EKS was deployed as the core orchestration platform, enabling seamless management of their containerized workloads. By automating resource scaling and job scheduling, EKS ensured that Cylana could efficiently handle its security scanning processes without manual intervention.
• AWS CloudWatch: We configured CloudWatch to monitor EKS workloads, providing real-time insights into application health and resource utilization. This improved observability allowed Cylana to proactively address performance bottlenecks and maintain operational stability.
• Amazon ElastiCache: ElastiCache was integrated to optimize caching for their vulnerability scanning modules, enhancing performance and reducing latency for real-time scanning results.
• Relational Database Service (RDS): Cylana’s data storage was migrated to Amazon RDS for high availability, automated backups, and improved database management.
  
• Other AWS Services:
  
  • ECR: Used to manage Docker images for Cylana’s containerized services.
  • Key Management Service (KMS): Implemented for secure key storage and encryption of sensitive data.
  • Route 53: Configured for domain name resolution and secure service access.
  • VPC: A secure Virtual Private Cloud was created to isolate Cylana’s workloads and protect sensitive data.

The entire solution was deployed using a Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and scalability across environments.

Results and Benefits

The migration to Amazon EKS and modernization of Cylana’s infrastructure delivered significant improvements in performance, scalability, and operational efficiency:

1. Optimized Resource Utilization: The adoption of Kubernetes Jobs reduced the resource overhead previously caused by Docker-in-Docker workflows, leading to more efficient workload execution.
2. Scalability and Resilience: With Amazon EKS, Cylana gained the ability to dynamically scale their workloads to handle increasing customer demands, ensuring reliable performance at all times.
3. Enhanced Observability: CloudWatch integration provided real-time monitoring of workloads and resource usage, enabling faster issue detection and resolution.
4. Improved Security: Services like KMS and VPC ensured the secure handling of sensitive data, aligning with Cylana’s focus on cybersecurity.
5. Cost Efficiency: By eliminating inefficiencies and optimizing resource usage, Cylana reduced their infrastructure costs while maintaining high levels of performance.
6. Streamlined Deployments: Terraform-based IaC allowed for faster deployments and minimized errors, improving overall development and deployment processes.

This solution enabled Cylana to focus on their mission of delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions without being constrained by infrastructure limitations.

About the Partner

Onkatec stands out as one of Turkey’s leading cloud technology consulting firms, delivering innovative solutions and customer-focused services. Recognized with the prestigious AWS Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year – Turkey award in 2024, Onkatec specializes in cloud-based modernization projects.

With deep expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud infrastructure automation, Onkatec serves as a trusted partner in its clients’ digital transformation journeys. By leveraging AWS technologies effectively, Onkatec empowers organizations to enhance agility, scalability, and cost optimization, helping them gain a competitive edge in the global market.