Containerised on Amazon ECS
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Case studyBrowns
A resilient foundation for education.
How Browns English Language School moved its platform onto a modernised, containerised foundation on AWS, with no more out-of-memory errors and no more static credentials.
- Industry
- Education, English language school
- We built
- A containerised foundation
- Runs on
- Amazon ECS
Zero
Out-of-memory errors
Eliminated
IAM roles
No static credentials
Access by role
Weekly
Operational reports
Clear visibility
The challenge
An app that kept running out of memory.
Browns English Language School runs its courses for staff and students on its own web platform. Out-of-memory errors kept interrupting it, and static credentials in the setup were a security risk the school wanted gone.
What we built
A modernised, containerised foundation.
Assembly moved the platform onto containers on AWS, sized the services to their real workload and switched access to AWS IAM roles.
What we delivered
Sized to the workload
Memory and compute set to what the services really use, which ended the out-of-memory errors.
IAM roles, not keys
Services get access through AWS IAM roles, so no static credentials sit in the setup.
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Also delivered
Weekly operational reports
Each week, the school’s team saw how the platform was running.
Powered by AWS
Containers, roles and visibility.
- Runs in containers. The platform runs on Amazon ECS, on a modernised, containerised foundation.
- Access by role. AWS IAM roles give services the access they need, with no static keys to leak.
- Kept in view. Weekly operational reports showed how the platform was running.
High-level architecture
Browns on AWS
Key results
Stable, secure and easier to run.
Reliability
Zero
Out-of-memory errors
Services sized to their real workload stopped the errors that interrupted the platform.
Security
IAM roles
No static credentials
Access moved to AWS IAM roles, removing stored keys from the setup.
Visibility
Weekly
Operational reports
The school saw how the platform was running, every week.
Our certified expertise
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and Well-Architected Partner Program. All 12 current AWS Certifications are held by our team.