Building a Scalable Cloud Platform for Ecopeaks Group: Automating Business Operations in Nigeria

    ## About the Company
    Ecopeaks Group is a Nigerian conglomerate founded in 2016, with businesses across sectors including Information Technology, Power & Green Energy, Medical Services, Food & Beverages, and Agriculture.
    ## Customer Challenge
    As Ecopeaks expanded, they needed a cost-effective and scalable digital platform to automate key business processes, including e-commerce operations, inventory management, and document storage. The platform also had to ensure high security, availability, and reliability to support growth.
    ## Partner’s Solution
    Digitspot, an AWS Advanced Partner, helped Ecopeaks implement a cloud platform that met all its functional requirements. For inventory and order management, ECS Fargate services were deployed to handle containerised microservices, backed by RDS for a transactional database with a read replica for optimal performance. Secure document storage was implemented using Amazon S3 with versioning and lifecycle policies, while IAM and bucket policies controlled access to sensitive documents.
    To support a scalable e-commerce platform, ECS service auto-scaling was configured based on CPU and request metrics, and an Application Load Balancer distributed traffic efficiently across ECS tasks. Cost optimisation was achieved by leveraging Fargate Spot for non-critical workloads. For high availability and reliability, the ECS cluster, ALB, and RDS were deployed across multiple Availability Zones, with Route 53 DNS failover ensuring seamless traffic routing during outages.
    ## Results and Benefits
    With this implementation, Ecopeaks achieved operational efficiency by automating workflows, reducing IT costs through optimised infrastructure, and gained a scalable platform to support future growth. The system now delivers high availability, minimal downtime, and a secure framework to protect business and customer data.
    ## About the Partner
    Digitspot, established in 2011, continues to help companies leverage cloud solutions to drive growth and innovation. As an AWS Advanced Partner, Digitspot remains committed to delivering world-class cloud strategies and implementations.