Atlas.

Unlocking scalable cloud architecture to support Atlas’ delivery of reliable customer experiences.

The client.

Atlas is a Norwegian GIS (geographic information system) software company that lets teams create maps and analyse geospatial data in a collaborative browser application.

Teams in diverse industries use Atlas to drive operational efficiencies, accelerate projects and drive innovation.

An energy services provider might conduct spatial analyses in Atlas to:
· Select the most appropriate sites for their next renewable energy projects
· Plan and manage their networks
· Estimate energy production
· Analyse shade coverage

Project Background.

Large file sizes and complex data sets.

Atlas’ customers can upload any type of file, with no size limit. This ensures its customers are able to create customised maps with relevant data, but it also makes for large and complex data sets, and data-intensive service delivery.

Scaling challenges of current cloud setup.

From the beginning, Atlas’ software was designed to be entirely in the cloud. Atlas therefore already had a base setup on AWS and Google Cloud. Because of scaling challenges in Google Cloud, Atlas was looking to optimise its cloud setup.

Atlas brought in Nordcloud as a cloud-native partner to help them achieve scalable architecture in the cloud.

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Objectives.

Sustainable platform transformation.

Atlas wanted to improve the capability of its platform to handle:

  • Bigger file sizes (with more processing power)
  • More users (in a secure manner)

AWS usage optimisation.

Navigating hyperscaler services and optimising on cloud required internal resources Atlas wanted to put towards driving its growth phase.

Atlas

We like to figure things out ourselves, but it’s also easy to sink too much time and resource into figuring out every aspect of the cloud. At this point in our development, we need to spend our time on what really matters.

Nordcloud’s AWS expertise helped us select the right hyperscaler services and take advantage of funding opportunities, and ultimately transform our cloud infrastructure.

Harald Rieber
CTO

The Solution.

Key outcomes:

Migration of GeoServer to AWS infrastructure.

To leverage the enhanced reliability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of AWS infrastructure.

Optimisation of memory-intensive services.

To help customers upload and run functions on large files reliably and efficiently.

Scaling policy optimisation in AWS Fargate.

To accommodate surges of new users and unlock proper scalability and speed.

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Atlas

Achieving proper scalability in cloud means being able to deliver more and better services to our customers.

At Atlas we aim to make it as simple and easy as possible for our customers to get value from mapping data. With Nordcloud, we’ve now built a strong baseline that we can grow and expand new services on top of.

Erling Olweus
Software Engineer

Key results.

Sustainable platform transformation.

Atlas can reliably handle larger file sizes across formats
From 100MB to 1GB.

AWS usage optimisation.

Atlas can auto-scale to unlock sustainable business growth on AWS
With scalable architecture.

Speed of delivery.

Nordcloud planned and executed Atlas’ migration to AWS infrastructure
In 4 weeks.

Nordcloud’s cloud-native partnership.

Besides Nordcloud’s high-quality solution output, as Atlas’ trusted cloud partner, Nordcloud is there to help support Atlas’ delivery of innovative customer solutions and empower its continued growth on AWS.

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Atlas

As a partner, Nordcloud verified our solutions, told us what to keep and change and gave feedback on our policies.

This made our transformation more efficient, because when we felt like we weren’t doing something as well as we could, we knew we could just call Nordcloud and figure out how to do it better.

Having Nordcloud there as a technology partner we can lean on when we need is incredibly valuable to our IT transformation.

Harald Rieber
CTO

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