Case Study

Database Optimization Delivers 64% Latency Reduction and 40% Cost Savings for Software Development Firm

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Industry 

Technology, Information, and Internet

Expertise 

Amazon RDS, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, Amazon VPC

Offerings/solutions 

Improved performance, cost efficiency, enhanced resilience, and automated operations

About the Client

Abright Labs is a software company with multidisciplinary digital product experts focused on user experience, design, and development. They extend the design and development departments of the most innovative companies. Abright Labs utilizes digital product design and development expertise to achieve quantifiable business goals, establish development frameworks early on, and empower their customers to maintain consistent products over time.

Highlights

64%

Query Latency Reduction

40%

Cost Reduction

45%

CPU Utilization Stabilization

The Challenge

The client’s monolithic database architecture suffered from severe resource contention as transactional queries and heavy analytical BI reporting were routed to a single primary instance without segregation. This created performance bottlenecks with query latency exceeding 250ms and CPU utilization spiking above 80% during peak traffic. Vertical scaling was rejected due to a projected 40% cost increase, while the architecture lacked resilience with no read replicas, creating a single point of failure risk. Limited observability tools provided no visibility into query distribution or replication lag, preventing effective governance and compliance management.

Solutions

• Implemented middleware to route transactional traffic to primary and read-only workloads to db.m6g.xlarge replicas
• Offloaded analytical queries to asynchronous replicas to preserve primary performance while monitoring lag
• Deployed Amazon CloudWatch dashboards for query distribution visualization and failover readiness
• Automated Amazon RDS promotion using EventBridge and Lambda, reducing recovery time to minutes
• Adopted horizontal scaling to limit cost growth to ~15% versus 40% for vertical scaling
• Enabled Amazon SNS notifications for all replication events to create a tamper-proof audit trail

The Results

Boosted business performance with 64% latency reduction, 47% CPU optimization, 40% cost avoidance, enhanced resilience, and operational excellence

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