While GoldenRace had a clear sense of its goals, it partnered with DoiT to dive more deeply into understanding the core of its challenges, including an update from AWS Aurora 2 to Aurora 3. “We came to DoiT with the challenge of reducing costs, and they sat down with us to really understand our goals,” Alejandro shared. “They reviewed our database usage to identify spikes and showed us where we could optimize and also AWS costs we were not seeing.”

Improving efficiency during a complex migration
During the upgrade from Aurora 2 to Aurora 3, DoiT helped GoldenRace recognize areas of its database that could be improved while simultaneously migrating versions. By recommending changes to specific configurations, the team could accelerate its processing speed and allow the database to be more adaptable to ebbs and flows in usage. Additionally, GoldenRace implemented DoiT Flexsave™ to support ongoing, automated compute management.

“Flexsave is simple because you don’t really have to do anything. If you turn it on, you’ll get discounts.” Alejandro shared. “DoiT also showed us that the standard Aurora wasn’t meeting our needs and suggested Aurora I/O because it’s optimized with MySQL 8.0.” By offering direct technical suggestions about which temporary tables would work with specific cloud configurations, DoiT helped GoldenRace update its infrastructure, customized around its inserts, updates, queries, and usage rates.

Gaining greater visibility across cloud environments with consolidated reporting
Variation in regional regulations and data storage laws means that GoldenRace maintains multiple AWS accounts. The company wanted to make more data-driven decisions and strategize for the future, but compiling cross-account data took several days every month.

The company combined these datasets into DoiT dashboards and Cloud Analytics to gain clearer insight across the entire organization. “The first steps to controlling costs are having better data and the right tools to make decisions,” Alejandro said. “Reducing the time we have to spend manually finding and processing data helps us focus on growth.”

Protecting company data with proactive cloud security
GoldenRace wanted to ensure its new and improved cloud infrastructure was secure from potential threats. With Anomaly Detection, the company can automatically catch and quickly correct unwanted activity that drives up costs. “Automating our review process means we don’t have to monitor our workloads, and if a vulnerability appears — and it’s affecting our system — we’re alerted immediately and can mitigate,” Alejandro shared. “We also avoid surprise costs. Before, we might not have known something happened until we saw a large bill at the end of the month.”

The team can now catch common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) before they’re deployed in a production environment. “We detected a vulnerability in one of the variables we built using a third-party tool,” Alejandro said. “But DoiT’s Anomaly Detection, combined with Lacework, we were able to catch the CVE and provide recommendations to remediate before it reached production, so our environment was never compromised.”