How Upstox built Next-Generation trading platform using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Spot Instances
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This article details how Upstox, India's largest investech company, built their NextGen trading platform using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and spot instances to meet their goals of availability, scalability, security, operational efficiency, and cost optimization.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The Upstox Greenfield philosophy: Security, customer experience, smart defaults, NoOps, and cost optimization
- The phased approach to migrating applications to Amazon EKS
- Scaling based on traffic patterns using Karpenter, ALB pre-warming, and overprovisioning
- Security measures like AWS Encryption SDK, Systems Manager for SSH access, patching, and compliance
- Additional cost optimizations like using AMD, Graviton, and spot instances, EBS gp3, and S3 storage lens
- Architectural roadmap including multi-architecture CPUs, auto-scaling databases, and hybrid on-demand/spot instances
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