How athenahealth modernized healthcare workloads with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
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This article describes how athenahealth used Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes to modernize healthcare workloads while maintaining data residency and compliance requirements.
- Achieved 50% reduction in response times and 70% improvement for backend calls to Redis and DynamoDB
- Reduced hardware and operational costs by 50% while halving pod count for the same workload
- Unified Kubernetes operating model across on-premises data centers and AWS cloud with single control plane
- Maintained HIPAA compliance and passed HITRUST security audit with flexible node placement in security zones
- Latency-sensitive EHR transactions run on-premises near data; supporting services run in AWS Region
- Used AWS Direct Connect for private connectivity, IAM Roles Anywhere for credentials, and Systems Manager for node operations
EKS Hybrid Nodes enabled athenahealth to keep regulated patient data on-premises while gaining cloud-native operations, elastic capacity, and incremental modernization without full cloud migration.
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