Key Takeaways

  • Effectual migrated the client, supporting Pacific Power, from on-premises infrastructure to a centralized, highly available AWS Cloud environment spanning multiple geographic locations.
  • The solution enabled drone-based UAV inspection of electrical infrastructure towers, delivering critical imagery used to alert high-risk wildfire and natural-disaster areas.
  • Effectual automated change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup as part of full-lifecycle AWS managed services.
  • Amazon CloudWatch Events trigger serverless AWS Lambda functions to orchestrate automated drone deployment and inspection workflows.
  • EC2 instances with automated launch configurations give the client the scalability to quickly add compute capacity as demand grows.

Effectual delivered a mission-critical solution to a client that ensured the delivery of UAV imagery taken from infrastructure towers that were used to alert high risk fire areas of a wildfire and other natural disasters.

The Challenge

Our customer required a move from its on-premises infrastructure to a centralized AWS Cloud environment. They looked to us to handle high availability architecture and fault tolerance to meet workloads over many geographical locations. We automated common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provided full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support enterprise infrastructure.

The Solution

We provided a client with Technical Amazon Web Services Infrastructure architecture to deliver a comprehensive, secure, and cost-effective hosting solution for supporting their efforts with Pacific Power. In addition, our team delivered Managed Services for the customer’s AWS environment. This assisted with the client’s ability to deploy drones to inspect the infrastructure of electrical towers and ensure their efficiency in wake of natural disasters.

The Benefits

Resilience

The implementation of Amazon CloudWatch Events for serverless workflow to trigger Lambda functions. Drones are programmed to deploy and inspect electrical towers to ensure that they are performing correctly.

Cost Optimization

We created a proprietary AWS-hosted solution in order for the customer to lower costs by running their workloads in the cloud. Our team assisted the client to utilize cloud purchasing options and offerings to meet their technical requirements while remaining cost-efficient.

Scalability

We configured EC2 instances that ensure adequate capacity to meet traffic demands and compute capacity. The implementation of automated launch configurations to allow the client to quickly launch and/or scale application servers in target environments in the future.

Frequently Asked Questions

What problem did this AWS solution solve for the client?

It replaced an on-premises setup with a centralized, highly available AWS Cloud environment capable of supporting fault-tolerant operations across multiple geographic locations.

How does the solution support wildfire and disaster response?

It ensures reliable delivery of UAV drone imagery captured from infrastructure towers, used to alert high-risk fire areas of wildfires and other natural disasters.

What AWS services power the drone inspection workflow?

Amazon CloudWatch Events trigger AWS Lambda functions in a serverless workflow that programs drones to deploy and inspect electrical towers.

How does the solution keep costs efficient?

Effectual built a proprietary AWS-hosted solution and helped the client use cloud purchasing options suited to their technical requirements, lowering costs versus running workloads on-premises.

How is the environment designed to scale?

EC2 instances are configured with automated launch configurations, letting the client quickly launch or scale application servers to meet future traffic and compute demands.