Financial ServicesCase Study

AWS-Native DevOps CI/CD Platform for Automated Deployments

Building an end-to-end automated CI/CD pipeline with blue/green deployments, reducing deployment time from ~3 hours to under 15 minutes.

Client: AltInvest
CI/CD Automation
Containerization
Blue/Green Deployments
Security & Monitoring
CI/CD pipeline automation

Executive Summary

AltInvest is a digital investment platform providing alternative investment opportunities to retail and institutional customers. As the business expanded, manual deployments slowed software releases and increased operational risk.

To modernize its software delivery process, AltInvest implemented an AWS-native DevOps platform using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon ECR, Amazon ECS, and AWS CodeDeploy.

The solution automated the complete CI/CD lifecycle, enabling secure, repeatable, and highly available deployments.

About AltInvest

AltInvest is a digital investment platform providing alternative investment opportunities to retail and institutional customers. The platform enables users to access diversified investment products through a modern, technology-driven experience.

Business Challenges

Manual application deployments across environments
Long release cycles and operational overhead
Slow rollback during deployment failures
Inconsistent deployments between Dev, QA, UAT, and Production
Limited deployment visibility and monitoring
Manual scaling of application services
Increased risk of production outages

Solution Overview

An automated CI/CD platform was built using GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon ECR, Amazon ECS, and AWS CodeDeploy. Every code commit automatically triggers build, test, container image creation, vulnerability scanning, image publishing, and blue/green deployment to ECS with health validation and automated rollback.

Detailed Solution Implementation

Source Control

  • • GitHub repository with pull request approvals

Continuous Integration

  • • CodePipeline orchestrates releases
  • • CodeBuild compiles code, executes unit tests, performs static analysis, and builds Docker images

Container Registry

  • • Amazon ECR stores versioned container images with vulnerability scanning

Continuous Deployment

  • • CodeDeploy performs blue/green deployments to Amazon ECS
  • • ECS task definitions are updated automatically
  • • Application Load Balancer shifts traffic only after successful health checks
  • • Automatic rollback is triggered if deployment validation fails

Monitoring & Security

  • • Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, logs, and alarms
  • • IAM least-privilege access
  • • AWS Secrets Manager for application secrets
  • • AWS CloudTrail for deployment auditing

Solution Workflow

DeveloperGitHubAWS CodePipelineAWS CodeBuildDocker BuildAmazon ECRAWS CodeDeployAmazon ECSApplication Load BalancerEnd Users

Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch | Auditing: AWS CloudTrail

AWS Services Used

AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeBuild
Amazon ECR
Amazon ECS
AWS CodeDeploy
Application Load Balancer
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS IAM
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS CloudTrail

Benefits Achieved

Deployment time reduced from ~3 hours to <15 minutes
80% reduction in manual deployment effort
Blue/green deployments minimized downtime
Standardized deployments across environments
Faster release cycles and improved developer productivity
Improved security with image scanning and secrets management

<15 min

Deployment Time

80%

Less Manual Effort

Zero

Downtime Deployments

Automated

Rollback on Failure

Business Outcomes

The AWS-native DevOps platform enabled AltInvest to accelerate software delivery while improving reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

  • Automated CI/CD reduced deployment risk
  • Increased release frequency
  • Allowed engineering teams to focus on delivering new business features
  • Improved overall platform reliability and security posture

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