C-CUBE is a Canadian web application developed by Porkepic Solutions Inc., designed specifically for professionals in the construction and renovation industries. The platform is a CRM that offers an integrated system to manage sales, projects, job sites, expenses, and customer relationships, aiming to enhance productivity and streamline operations for businesses of all sizes. ​They worked with AWS Partner Unicorne to modernize its infrastructure and keep pace with growing demand of their customers spanning all trades in the construction business.

Migrate and consolidate costs to scale into the future

C-CUBE’s infrastructure was distributed across multiple cloud providers, with various components deployed on different platforms. The customer Cloud 66 to manage part of its application infrastructure, and Amazon EC2 instances to host more workloads. While this multi-cloud setup served short-term needs, it introduced significant challenges in terms of cost management, operational complexity, and system reliability.

Maintaining and coordinating workloads across several environments proved to be expensive at both the machine and personnel levels. The fragmented architecture made it difficult to optimize resource usage, implement consistent security practices, and scale services efficiently. As the customer continued to grow and onboard new clients, it became clear that both horizontal and vertical scaling were necessary to meet peak demand—yet the existing setup made this difficult and costly to achieve.

To sustain growth and maintain a high standard of service delivery, the customer needed a secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure—consolidated under a single cloud provider. This would allow C-CUBE to streamline operations, reduce overhead, and enhance performance and availability for its expanding user base.

Migrate to containers, Improve costs, Improve reliability

To help C-CUBE overcome the complexity and cost inefficiencies of its multi-cloud setup, the partner designed a centralized, scalable solution built entirely on AWS. The primary goals were to consolidate infrastructure, optimize resource usage, and enable dynamic scaling to support business growth all while reducing costs.

The first step was to containerize the application and deploy it on AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers. This approach eliminated the need for manual server provisioning, reduced compute costs, and provided the flexibility to automatically scale workloads in response to traffic demands. By abstracting away the underlying infrastructure, C-CUBE could now focus on delivering a seamless user experience without worrying about capacity planning or system maintenance.

The team also performed rightsizing on the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance to align performance with actual usage patterns, leading to reduced costs and improved database efficiency. To strengthen the security posture, the partner deployed AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) in front of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), providing protection against common web exploits and malicious traffic while balancing the load by scaling out the solution when there is peak demand. This setup ensured that the customer’s environment was not only scalable and cost-efficient but also secure and resilient.

In line with AWS security best practices, the solution leveraged AWS IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) to enforce the principle of least privilege. Service roles were carefully designed and scoped to grant only the permissions required for each component of the deployment pipeline. This approach helped secure the CI/CD process and minimized the risk of unauthorized access, ensuring the environment remained compliant and well-governed.

More reliability, cost reduction, one place to manage

The migration and consolidation of C-CUBE’s infrastructure on AWS resulted in substantial cost savings and operational improvements. By standardizing their workloads on AWS Fargate and rightsizing their Amazon RDS instances, the customer was able to reduce compute service costs by approximately 10%, and database costs by 50%. Overall, the consolidated architecture brought about a total cost reduction of approximately 20%.

In addition to the financial benefits, C-CUBE no longer experiences unplanned downtime, thanks to the resilience and automated scaling capabilities of the AWS environment. The application can now scale to meet demand without requiring manual intervention or infrastructure reconfiguration. Centralizing operations on AWS has also eliminated the complexity of managing multiple cloud providers, allowing the customer to streamline operations, improve maintainability, and deliver a more reliable experience to its users.