Innovate Tech operates mySecondTeacher, an e-learning platform serving 19,000+ schools across 51 countries. Rapid growth led to cloud inefficiencies, high costs, and operational challenges. TekBay partnered with Innovate Tech to optimize their AWS environment, delivering measurable cost savings, improved performance, and scalable infrastructure.
About the Customer
With a passion for experimenting, Innovate Tech creates and develops groundbreaking solutions that are scalable, secure, and user-friendly. mySecondTeacher being the flagship product, exemplifies the commitment to revolutionizing education. This comprehensive e-learning platform integrates cutting-edge pedagogy and has been adopted in 51 countries, serving over 19,000 schools globally. Our interactive video lessons engage students, enhance understanding, and foster a love for learning, making mySecondTeacher the premier online learning destination in the region.
Challenges
Innovate Tech faced several critical issues that were affecting platform performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. The existing setup created bottlenecks and increased overhead, making global expansion difficult.
- Scalability: On-premises systems struggled to handle variable demand.
- Operational Overhead: Managing servers and storage consumed internal resources.
- Disaster Recovery & Continuity: Maintaining redundancy was complex and costly.
- Security & Compliance: Protecting student data and meeting regulations was challenging.
TekBay’s Approach
TekBay designed a comprehensive solution that addressed each challenge strategically, focusing on cost optimization, reliability, and team enablement. The approach ensured both immediate improvements and long-term operational efficiency.
- Cloud Optimization: Right-sized compute and storage resources to actual usage.
- Cost Efficiency: Reduced cloud spend by eliminating waste while maintaining performance.
- Well-Architected Review (WAFR): Improved reliability, security, and scalability.
- Automation & CI/CD: Streamlined deployments, reducing release cycles by 50%.
- Team Enablement: Guided Innovate Tech’s team to maintain optimized operations independently.
Services Leveraged
TekBay leveraged a suite of AWS services to deliver a tailored, efficient cloud environment. These tools enabled optimization, automation, and global scalability. It includded EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, ECS, ELB, VPC, Lambda, WAF, Systems Manager and Dynamo DB.
Results / Metrics of Success
The engagement delivered measurable results, improving cost efficiency, operational performance, and scalability for Innovate Tech.
- 35% cloud cost reduction while maintaining performance.
- 50% faster deployment cycles.
- Zero downtime incidents during global platform expansion.
- Optimized resource utilization across all cloud environments.
Outcome
With TekBay’s support, Innovate Tech now operates a cloud environment that is more scalable, efficient, and reliable. The improvements have reduced costs, streamlined operations, and allowed the team to focus on delivering high-quality educational experiences to users worldwide.
