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Shine.com – AWS Managed Services Case Study

Customer Overview

Customer: Shine.com

Industry: Recruitment & Human Resources Technology

Customer Location: India

Engagement Type: AWS Managed Services

Engagement Duration: Managed Services since November 2025 – May 2026

Shine.com – AWS Managed Services Case Study

Customer Background

Shine.com, a leading online recruitment platform under the Hindustan Times Group, connects millions of job seekers with employers across India. As part of its digital transformation strategy, the organization initiated a modernization program to migrate from a monolithic application architecture to a cloud-native microservices platform running on AWS.

DevSecOps.ai was engaged to modernize the existing infrastructure by migrating workloads to Amazon EKS, replacing self-managed databases with AWS managed services, implementing CI/CD automation, and establishing an ongoing AWS Managed Services engagement focused on operational excellence, security, and continuous optimization.

Business Challenges

Before modernization, Shine.com experienced several operational challenges:

  • Monolithic application architecture limiting deployment agility.
  • Self-managed MySQL, MongoDB, and Apache Solr requiring significant operational effort.
  • Limited automation in deployment and infrastructure management.
  • Need to migrate approximately 20 services to Kubernetes.
  • Requirement for centralized monitoring, logging, and observability.
  • Requirement for Service Mesh, Service Discovery, and secure VPN-based networking.
  • Need for highly available managed database and search services.

Initial Modernization Project

DevSecOps.ai delivered the following modernization initiatives:

  • Modernized the platform by migrating applications from EC2 to Amazon EKS.
  • Migrated self-managed MySQL to Amazon RDS for MySQL.
  • Migrated MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB.
  • Migrated Apache Solr to Amazon OpenSearch Service.
  • Implemented GitHub Actions and Argo CD based CI/CD pipelines.
  • Established centralized monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
  • Implemented VPN connectivity and environment isolation.
  • Designed separate Production and Non-Production Amazon EKS environments.
  • Introduced Service Mesh and Service Discovery capabilities.

These modernization activities provided the foundation for long-term AWS Managed Services.

Ongoing AWS Managed Services

  • Following completion of the modernization program, DevSecOps.ai continues to provide comprehensive AWS Managed Services.

    Cloud Operations

    • 24×7 monitoring of Amazon EKS environments.
    • Kubernetes cluster administration.
    • Infrastructure health monitoring.
    • Incident response and root cause analysis.
    • Capacity planning.
    • Performance optimization.

    Platform Management

    • Amazon EKS lifecycle management.
    • Worker node maintenance.
    • Kubernetes upgrades and patch management.
    • Namespace administration.
    • Infrastructure as Code maintenance.
    • Continuous platform optimization.

    Database Operations

    DevSecOps.ai provides operational support for:

    • Amazon RDS for MySQL
    • Amazon DocumentDB
    • Amazon OpenSearch Service

    Operational activities include:

    • Database health monitoring.
    • Backup verification.
    • Performance reviews.
    • Capacity planning.
    • Availability monitoring.

    DevOps & Automation

    • GitHub Actions administration.
    • Argo CD operations.
    • CI/CD pipeline maintenance.
    • Helm chart lifecycle management.
    • Deployment automation.
    • Release management support.

    Observability

    The managed observability platform includes:

    • Amazon CloudWatch
    • Amazon CloudTrail
    • Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Loki

    Services provided include:

    • Infrastructure monitoring.
    • Application monitoring.
    • Centralized logging.
    • Alert management.
    • Dashboard maintenance.
    • Performance reporting.

    These monitoring capabilities are derived from the observability architecture defined in the modernization project.

    Security Operations

    • IAM governance reviews.
    • VPN monitoring.
    • CloudTrail log reviews.
    • Security patch management.
    • Infrastructure security assessments.
    • Operational compliance reviews.

    Cloud Financial Management

    As part of the managed services engagement, DevSecOps.ai performs:

    • Amazon EKS capacity optimization.
    • EC2 rightsizing reviews.
    • Amazon RDS utilization reviews.
    • Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations.
    • Infrastructure utilization reporting.
    • Monthly cost optimization reviews.

    Backup & Disaster Recovery

    • Backup policy validation.
    • Recovery verification.
    • Infrastructure resilience reviews.
    • Operational readiness assessments.

    Governance

    • Monthly operational review meetings.
    • Service reporting.
    • Change management.
    • Capacity planning sessions.
    • Continuous improvement initiatives.
    • Customer operational governance.

AWS Services Managed

  • DevSecOps.ai provides ongoing operational support for:

    • Amazon EKS
    • Amazon EC2
    • Amazon RDS for MySQL
    • Amazon DocumentDB
    • Amazon OpenSearch Service
    • Amazon CloudWatch
    • Amazon CloudTrail
    • Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights
    • Amazon VPC
    • AWS VPN
    • AWS IAM
    • Amazon Route 53
    • GitHub Actions
    • Argo CD

    These services align with the AWS modernization scope described in the project plan.

Business Outcomes

Through the ongoing AWS Managed Services engagement, Shine.com has achieved:

  • Successful migration to a cloud-native Amazon EKS platform.
  • Improved deployment frequency through automated CI/CD.
  • Enhanced platform availability and operational stability.
  • Reduced operational overhead through AWS managed services.
  • Improved infrastructure observability.
  • Strengthened cloud security posture.
  • Continuous infrastructure optimization.
  • Simplified database administration.
  • Scalable Kubernetes platform supporting future application growth.

Engagement Summary

ItemDetails
CustomerShine.com
IndustryRecruitment Technology
Initial ProjectMonolithic Application Modernization to AWS
Managed Services SinceNovember 2025 – May 2026
AWS Services ManagedAmazon EKS, EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon OpenSearch Service, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC, IAM
Managed Service ActivitiesMonitoring, Incident Response, Platform Operations, Database Management, Security Operations, CI/CD, Cost Optimization
Service DurationAWS Managed Services

Technologies

  • Amazon EKS
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon RDS for MySQL
  • Amazon DocumentDB
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon CloudTrail
  • CloudWatch Container Insights
  • GitHub Actions
  • Argo CD
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • AWS IAM
  • Amazon VPC
  • VPN