Uninterrupted live class streaming with 100k concurrent users. Delivered

About Customer

Physics Wallah is a multinational Ed-Tech unicorn headquartered in India, primarily focused on providing quality education content at an affordable price for JEE/NEET/NDA/GATE/UPSC aspirants. Currently, the company has a user base of over 6 million active students.

Problem Statement

Needed resource independence and isolation, the entire infrastructure (prod + non-prod environments) was held in a single AWS account.
Achieve uninterrupted live class streaming at a scale of 50K – 100K concurrent viewers.
Continuous security evaluation and traceability, Data Backups to ensure protection against unexpected events or losses.
Lack of alerting for incidents, warnings, cost alarms, operational processes etc.

Solution Offered!

Set up different AWS accounts with comprehensive segregation of controls. Implemented preventive/detective controls on every account with AWS Control Tower and the defined hierarchy of accounts with AWS Organization.
Setup AWS Guarduty and Security hub for centralized findings and reports of all accounts.
Created customized Grafana dashboards to visualize critical endpoint SLAs, application-specific metrics, and their dependencies.
Implemented comprehensive observability visualization and business intelligence monitoring dashboards with AWS Quicksight.
Implemented Cross-region, cross-account RDS backup using Terraform.
Integrated Kubecost into the Kubernetes environment to gain comprehensive insights into cost allocation and utilization of its components.
Deployed CID Dashboards in AWS to monitor cost utilization per AWS account, service, etc.

Final Outcomes

A unified framework for managing accounts at scale with centralized Access and Privilege management
Streamlined cost allocation, resource tracking, and security monitoring.
Extended resilience of the platform to be able to manage a scale of around 100K concurrent users.
Disaster recovery setup to handle partial or complete regional outages to prevent data loss.