About Gaotune

Gaotune Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise that specializes in developing, producing, and selling advanced metal materials, especially amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials. Established in 2007, the company has obtained the ISO9001 quality system certification, and its products comply with the European RoHS environmental standards.

Gaotune aims to provide high-performance amorphous, nanocrystalline, and silicon steel magnetic cores that can replace similar international advanced products. These products find applications in areas such as electric vehicles, electric vehicle chargers, railways, wind power inverters, UPS current transformers, residential circuit breakers, sensors, common mode chokes, and filters in the fields of solar energy, wind energy, new energy, and power systems.The company's primary customers are Siemens, General Electric, Philips, ABB, Powerone, Coilcraft, BYD, and Huawei.

Business Challenges

During the early stages of production, operations, and expanding international markets, Gaotune recognized the importance of IT infrastructure. With the continuous growth in product shipments, new challenges emerged.

1. Gaotune's IT operations team lacked the necessary technical expertise to meet the requirements of digital transformation. They were not fully aware of the value and path to cloud adoption, and there were no similar reference cases available. This raised concerns about losing control over the company's operations.

2. Gaotune had multiple complex systems for research and development, production, and distribution, each with different business requirements. This led to the deployment of numerous IT devices and complicated interfaces, creating isolated and cumbersome systems. The expansion of overseas operations introduced new production and profit models that imposed many new technological requirements. Gaotune needed to undergo digital transformation to minimize errors, improve efficiency, and reduce costs in various aspects such as global communication, marketing, supply chain management, product manufacturing, inventory, and transportation.

3. Gaotune's IT architecture was decentralized, and extracting a large amount of data was challenging. This made it difficult to implement unified and effective data management, hindering a truly data-driven digital transformation. The company urgently needed data analysis based on customer characteristics and product preferences to provide customers with the most commonly used and preferred features, accelerate product iterations, and enable intelligent prediction of raw material production and product inventory.

4. Gaotune faced significant variations in demand due to seasonal fluctuations in production and sales, leading to a substantial waste of IT resources and high costs. The company needed the ability to dynamically scale its IT resources using the cloud's elasticity to meet business growth and demand peaks. It required the capacity to adjust on-demand to address unexpected, seasonal, and cyclical demand peaks without affecting application performance or user experience.

5. Gaotune required unified security protection and governance across platforms such as procurement, production lines, inventory, and sales. It needed to deploy consistent data management and security strategies throughout its IT environment.AWS Helps Gaotune's Rapid Cloud Adoption for Digital Transformation

Gaotune faced several challenges in its digital transformation journey, which prompted the company to partner with AWS for cloud services and digital expertise. AWS provided the following solutions to help Gaotune achieve its goals:

1. Cloud Infrastructure: AWS offered a reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure to support Gaotune's digital transformation journey. With AWS's global presence, Gaotune could easily deploy and manage its IT workloads across different regions.

2. Data Analytics: AWS's data analytics services enabled Gaotune to extract, analyze, and gain valuable insights from its data. Gaotune could leverage customer and product data analysis to enhance its offerings, accelerate product innovation, and optimize production and inventory management.

3. Elasticity and Cost Optimization: By leveraging AWS's cloud capabilities, Gaotune could adjust its IT resources on-demand, ensuring that it only paid for the resources it needed during peak demand periods. This helped reduce IT costs and improve resource utilization efficiency.

4. Security and Compliance: AWS provided robust security measures and compliance certifications, ensuring that Gaotune's data and systems were protected. Gaotune could implement consistent security and data management strategies across its platforms.

Solutions Deployment

Through its partnership with AWS, Gaotune successfully built a digital transformation platform, which allowed the company to stay ahead of the competition, improve global competitiveness, and meet the challenges of the digital era.

Gaotune's collaboration with AWS enabled the company to overcome its IT infrastructure challenges and achieve rapid digital transformation. By leveraging AWS's cloud services, Gaotune enhanced its IT capabilities, gained valuable insights from data analytics, optimized costs, and ensured security and compliance. This allowed Gaotune to improve operational efficiency, accelerate innovation, and strengthen its position in the global market.

Why Choose AWS?

Gaotune evaluated major cloud providers and chose AWS for digital transformation. Here are the reasons behind their choice:

Global Coverage of Cloud Infrastructure: AWS offers cloud infrastructure coverage in 22 geographical regions, with 70 availability zones. This is more than double the number provided by the world's second-largest cloud provider. By utilizing AWS, Gaotune is able to seamlessly connect with its customers in Europe and North America - its primary markets - without requiring redundant designs and multiple environment maintenance.

Leading Cloud Computing Technology: AWS is a leading provider of cloud services that caters to a vast global clientele. With more than ten years of experience, AWS has developed an extensive suite of cloud services and solutions that offer a robust foundation for Gaotune's infrastructure. AWS provides a broad range of services, such as elastic computing, storage, databases, and IoT, which align with Gaotune's business requirements, enabling them to reduce costs and enhance efficiency.

Experience a wide variety of cloud services: AWS was one of the first players in the cloud services market and has a lot of experience and a wide range of services that make it easy for customers to deploy their business applications. AWS offers an extensive set of services, including infrastructure, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data lakes, analytics, and IoT, which are superior to those of other cloud providers in terms of variety and quality. Gaotune benefits from AWS's extensive service offerings and takes advantage of industry best practices and case studies to gain valuable insights.

High Security Standards: AWS provides a highly secure cloud computing environment that meets the security requirements of even the most sensitive organizations such as military and banking institutions. AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features, supporting 90 security standards and compliance certifications. All services that store customer data on AWS have encryption capabilities to ensure data security. By entrusting security to AWS, Gaotune can focus on its core      business of production and sales while also benefiting from AWS's robust security measures.

Rich and Vast Ecosystem of Cloud Computing: AWS boasts a thriving ecosystem with millions of active users and tens of thousands of partners, catering to customers across all sectors, from rapidly expanding startups to leading enterprises and cutting-edge government agencies. Gaotune is among      those that have benefited greatly from this extensive AWS ecosystem, which has facilitated collaboration, learning from industry peers, and leveraging partner solutions to enhance its digital transformation journey further.

To summarize, Gaotune selected AWS as their cloud computing provider due to its global infrastructure coverage, industry-leading technology, diverse range of services, high security standards, and extensive ecosystem. This partnership with AWS has allowed Gaotune to speed up its digital transformation and position itself for success in the digital age.

As a platform for developers, AWS has a plethora of development tools, tutorials, and extensive documentation. AWS also has a supportive community atmosphere that makes it convenient for developers to create applications on the platform. AWS has a wealth of knowledge, tools, and case studies available online. Some open-source software and code have better support for AWS, and third-party developers have created many user-friendly tools based on AWS. Additionally, there are many AWS enthusiasts who share learning videos, experiences, and technical documentation on social networking sites.

Gaotune's IT personnel can easily and quickly collaborate with AWS technical experts in this environment, enhancing their own systems. Furthermore, AWS provides high-quality customer service. Over the years, AWS has maintained a customer-centric approach by listening to and understanding user needs, rapidly iterating product features, and offering various market activities. Users always experience professional and considerate service throughout their cloud journey. Gaotune has received strong support from AWS during its cloud adoption and usage.

AWS Partner Network (APN) offers professional partner services. APN is a global partner program that targets technology and consulting companies that build solutions and services utilizing AWS for customers. APN helps Gaotune build and market AWS products by providing valuable business, technical, and marketing support.

Key Benefits
By adopting AWS's global infrastructure and rich managed cloud services, Gaotune has gained significant benefits, including:

The ability to focus on business operations: With AWS's worldwide cloud infrastructure and enterprise-level SLA guarantees, Gaotune can focus more on business operations rather than building and managing IT infrastructure. Gaotune's IT Manager, Leo, mentioned that by leveraging AWS, they have optimized their production processes. They no longer need to deploy their own on-premises data centers but can build applications in a modular manner and provide services externally. This has reduced costs, increased efficiency, decreased errors, improved performance, and enhanced customer experience. Whenever they release new products or engage in new market promotions, they leverage EC2 Auto Scaling and ELB to scale the system accordingly. AWS's elasticity and scalability not only provide a smooth user experience but also dynamically adjust based on access patterns. This ensures that their business runs smoothly.

Optimal performance and throughput: By leveraging AWS's design, Gaotune can use cloud resources on-demand to achieve maximum performance and throughput for workloads running on AWS.

Rapid market expansion: Gaotune can quickly expand into new markets by leveraging AWS's infrastructure and network advantages. By deploying services in AWS's availability zones in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America, they can provide efficient and low-latency access experiences to customers in neighboring countries and regions. Gaotune's IT Manager Leo mentioned that their technical team efficiently connects user requests to infrastructure running on AWS by configuring intelligent DNS services in the cloud. This optimizes access performance and enables easy failover.

Leveraging advanced data analysis capabilities: Gaotune builds a data lake on AWS, creates control panels connected to predictive models, and explores the latest data analysis features to optimize their production processes.

In the future, Gaotune aims to utilize more AWS-managed services to improve its global business operations. Specifically, they plan to implement Amazon Aurora to streamline their data management and analysis. By working with AWS partner CypressTel, Gaotune will continuously enhance its global infrastructure layout and security framework to enable swift expansion into emerging markets. Their goal is to provide users in different regions and countries with advanced material products that are both convenient and secure.