Case Study: Imagine Learning cuts networking costs by 40% with Buoyant’s Linkerd

Imagine Learning saves 40% on networking costs with Buoyant

Imagine Learning, a digital-first education solutions provider for K-12 students, faced challenges in managing secure and reliable communications across hundreds of microservices on AWS EKS as their platform scaled. They needed a solution to encrypt traffic seamlessly, simplify service-to-service communication, and provide deep observability to ensure a robust experience for their millions of users. This led them to partner with vendor Buoyant and evaluate their enterprise service mesh product.

Buoyant provided its enterprise distribution of Linkerd, which was implemented using a GitOps approach. The solution delivered significant results, including a 20% reduction in operational overhead and enhanced security by reducing service mesh-related CVEs by 97%. Most notably, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd's High Availability Zone Load Balancing is on track to reduce Imagine Learning's regional data transfer networking costs by at least 40%.

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