Healthcare industry leader accelerates medical imaging innovation with Amazon EKS and Spectro Cloud Palette

To fulfill its mission, this manufacturer needs to innovate and scale IT fast. And it needs to do so while keeping its competitiveness, and driving digitization and productivity to improve the lives of patients. As a large enterprise with a complex portfolio, it operates at huge scale and complexity. Ultimately, this brings unique challenges for managing its technology deployments and support, presenting risks in service availability and directly impacting patient outcomes. And as a company operating in a highly regulated market with sensitive data, security is extremely important and the consequences of a breach are unthinkable.

This company developed an intelligence platform to support its entire ecosystem of next-gen imaging equipment and software applications. The platform runs on hundreds of K8s clusters, split across AWS EKS and on-premises data centers, with curated and purposely designed stacks to address the various requirements of every application.
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As the platform grows across thousands of hospitals and clinics, the company found it unsustainably time-consuming to manage upgrades and security patches manually. It needed a repeatable and scalable way to easily and consistently manage hundreds of K8s clusters across cloud and its on-premises data centers, while minimizing upgrade downtime, risk and operational effort. 

This healthcare technology provider chose Spectro Cloud Palette to provide a complete, automated lifecycle management solution for all its Kubernetes clusters in AWS EKS, on-premises data centers and the edge.

The company already widely leverages the AWS ecosystem across storage, security and networking domains, using products such as Elastic File System (EFS), Elastic Block Store (EBS) and S3, Route 53, Secrets Manager and Key Management Service.. Through a Terraform provider, Palette smoothly deploys AWS managed services and defines integrations and policies per deployment, unlocking cost and performance optimization. 
Using Palette’s Cluster Profiles capability, the operations team can now model not only the K8s infrastructure but also any pack — such as monitoring, logging, service mesh and other app components. And Palette deploys and manages it in a repeatable, consistent way in the company’s existing AWS EKS clusters. Palette ensures that the clusters, once deployed, experience zero configuration drift.

With Palette’s unique decentralized architecture, rolling upgrades can be applied in parallel across all K8s clusters, significantly enhancing the time-to-market for new application releases or critical security patches, resulting in a more resilient platform. 

Finally, thanks to seamless integration with Terraform, Palette works with the tools the team already had in place. With Palette, the operations team can easily manage their K8s and scale with confidence.