Nimbus Post Achieves 50% Faster Delivery Cycles with AWS & BuildPiper

  • CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
  • CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
  • PIPELINES
  • KUBERNETES

NimbusPost is a leading eCommerce enabler for India’s new-age businesses, providing scalable and easy-to-use logistics and fulfillment solutions. It is building an all-in-one technology and service stack that supports the entire value chain from customer acquisition and conversion to post-purchase engagement and retention.

Problem Statement

They faced rising costs, performance bottlenecks, and manual deployments. Monitoring was fragmented and disaster recovery options were limited on DigitalOcean, resulting in operational inefficiencies that restricted scalability, resilience, and service reliability during rapid business growth. 

Top 3 Achievements

Accelerated Releases

Automated CI/CD pipelines enabled 50% faster deployments, reducing risks and improving release efficiency.

Cost Optimization

Right-sizing and auto-scaling reduced infrastructure expenses by 32%, ensuring sustainable, predictable cost efficiency. 

Enhanced Resilience

Multi-AZ RDS deployment and improved disaster recovery processes strengthened reliability, availability, and business continuity.

Challenges

Performance Bottlenecks

Existing infrastructure struggled during peak loads, causing inconsistent throughput and slower customer experience.

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Costs

Static VM provisioning led to escalating infrastructure costs without options for optimization or efficiency.

Manual Deployments

Lack of automation delayed releases, increased operational risks, and restricted development team’s overall agility.

Fragmented Monitoring

Multiple tools offered limited visibility, making troubleshooting difficult and slowing issue resolution significantly.

Limited Disaster Recovery

Single-region setup restricted resilience, leaving operations vulnerable to outages and regional disruptions.

Solutions

Microservices Orchestration

Containerized workloads deployed on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), enabling automated scaling, higher resilience, and streamlined management.

CI/CD & Automation

BuildPiper pipelines with Terraform delivered consistent deployments, faster releases, and reduced operational risks.

Database Modernization

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ provided high availability, automated backups, and robust disaster recovery for business continuity.

Unified Observability

AWS CloudWatch centralized monitoring, reducing troubleshooting time and improving proactive issue detection across environments.

Security & Networking

IAM governance, Route 53 DNS, and Load Balancer enhanced traffic management and platform security.

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Outcomes

50% faster deployments were achieved through automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing risks and ensuring consistent release efficiency. 

By implementing right-sizing and auto-scaling, Nimbus Post reduced infrastructure costs by 32%, driving predictable and sustainable operations. 

By leveraging AWS EKS with EC2 auto-scaling, NimbusPost improved throughput by 2x, eliminating bottlenecks and supporting rapid transaction growth during peaks.

With Multi-AZ RDS, Nimbus Post achieved 99.9% availability and strengthened resilience through automated backups and disaster recovery readiness. 

Centralized monitoring with AWS CloudWatch reduced troubleshooting time by 40%, enabling proactive detection and faster resolution of platform issues.

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