Secure and Scalable AWS Operations for Healthcare
Industry: Healthcare, Medical Devices
Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Client: Vibrant Gastro
Services: AWS Landing Zone, Cloud Modernization, Managed Cloud Operations, Security, Kubernetes, Monitoring and Optimization
About the Customer
Vibrant Gastro develops and manufactures innovative medical devices for the treatment of chronic constipation. Its flagship product, the Vibrant® capsule, uses gentle mechanical stimulation to support bowel movements.
Operating in the healthcare and medical-device industry, Vibrant Gastro requires a secure, reliable, and scalable technology environment to support its connected medical-device platform while protecting sensitive healthcare information.
Customer Challenge
Vibrant Gastro faced several challenges with its existing AWS infrastructure, including limited internal AWS expertise, security and HIPAA-related requirements, scalability limitations, and insufficient monitoring capabilities.
As the company’s operations expanded, managing the AWS environment became increasingly complex. Its internal team lacked the specialized cloud and DevOps expertise required to continuously maintain infrastructure, manage configuration changes, address security requirements, and optimize cloud resources.
Security and compliance were especially important due to the sensitive nature of healthcare information. Vibrant Gastro needed to maintain a secure infrastructure with consistent access controls, appropriate governance, and continuous visibility into its cloud environment.
The existing infrastructure also contained potential single points of failure and lacked effective automated scaling. In addition, limited monitoring and alerting capabilities made it difficult to identify and resolve operational issues proactively.
Vibrant Gastro needed a partner capable of not only modernizing its AWS infrastructure but also operating and supporting the environment on an ongoing basis, reducing dependency on internal AWS expertise and allowing its teams to focus on medical-device innovation.
Partner Solution
Peax Cloud modernized Vibrant Gastro’s AWS infrastructure and provides ongoing cloud operations and DevOps expertise to maintain a secure, scalable, and efficiently managed environment.
The solution includes:
- AWS Landing Zone and Security: Peax Cloud implemented a HIPAA-oriented AWS Landing Zone for Healthcare using AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, providing standardized infrastructure, stronger governance, and security controls suitable for healthcare workloads.
- Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure was provisioned through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), improving deployment consistency, repeatability, and control over infrastructure changes.
- Kubernetes and Automated Scaling: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) was implemented with Karpenter and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPA), enabling infrastructure and application resources to scale dynamically according to actual demand.
- Monitoring and Operational Visibility: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana were deployed to provide centralized infrastructure monitoring, application metrics, and visibility into system performance.
- IoT Security: AWS IoT Core was implemented to support secure certificate management for Vibrant Gastro’s connected medical-device environment.
Beyond the initial implementation, Peax Cloud supports the day-to-day operation of Vibrant Gastro’s AWS environment, including infrastructure monitoring, operational troubleshooting, infrastructure changes, security-related requirements, scalability management, and AWS resource optimization.
By combining infrastructure automation, advanced monitoring, and professional AWS operational expertise, Peax Cloud helps Vibrant Gastro maintain an efficient cloud environment while reducing the internal effort required to manage complex AWS workloads.
Results and Benefits
Reduced Operational Burden: Peax Cloud’s ongoing AWS and DevOps support reduces Vibrant Gastro’s dependency on internal cloud expertise and allows its teams to focus on developing and supporting medical-device products.
Improved Security and Governance: The standardized AWS Landing Zone and infrastructure management practices provide a stronger foundation for maintaining consistent security controls and addressing healthcare compliance requirements.
Proactive Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Centralized monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana provides visibility into infrastructure and application health, supporting earlier identification and investigation of operational issues.
Improved Scalability and Reliability: Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and HPA enable the environment to respond automatically to workload fluctuations, reducing manual scaling requirements and improving operational resilience.
Optimized Infrastructure Utilization: Automated resource scaling and infrastructure optimization help align AWS capacity with actual workload demand and reduce unnecessary resource consumption.
Focus on Core Business: With Peax Cloud supporting the AWS environment, Vibrant Gastro can devote more internal resources to its medical-device innovation and business growth.
Together, these improvements provide Vibrant Gastro with a secure, scalable, monitored, and efficiently operated AWS environment capable of supporting its continued growth.