DoiT planned several sessions for the Moralis team with DoiT’s expert Cloud Reliability Engineers to conduct architecture, cost optimization and security posture reviews – in order to achieve Moralis’s goals of rearchitecting and optimizing its workloads. Those discussions helped identify opportunities to elevate Moralis’s infrastructure, aligning it to industry best practices for reliability and disaster recovery, addressing core DNS issues, and managing traffic in a way that minimizes network hops.

Moralis has already adopted several of DoiT’s recommendations, such as backup strategies and multi-region capabilities. “From the infrastructure side, we want to have as high reliability as possible, so more improvements are in store,” says Hernefeldt.

In order to set its AWS account up for AWS Foundational Technical review, Moralis created multiple new accounts to deploy its workloads. But it got capped at 32 CPU or 64 CPU, and its clusters of workloads were above that. “Getting increased quota requests on new accounts is very tricky, but since onboarding with DoiT, these types of requests go through very quickly,” says Hernefeldt.

Moralis received dedicated expertise from DoiT in its migration from Citus to S3 and Dynamo – a product that Hernefeldt described as ideal for blockchain data, as it is a time series database. But the technology was new to Moralis.

“We used S3 before, but never Dynamo,” says Hernefeldt, “so being able to pull in experts to ask for best practices and different pitfalls to try to avoid was really helpful. As we started to use it, we ran into some issues that were hard to predict and being able to raise support tickets and get someone online to hop in a meeting with us to analyze it was really helpful.”