Case Study: Chronicled Builds Scalable Blockchain-Backed Supply Chain on AWS with Foghorn

How Chronicled, with support from Foghorn and AWS, created a Kubernetes-based platform to deliver real-time traceability and compliance in the pharmaceutical industry

The Challenge

Following a meningitis outbreak in 2012 linked to counterfeit drugs, Congress passed the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requiring that every pharmaceutical unit returned to wholesalers include a unique, traceable product identifier. For a fragmented industry dealing with resellers, mergers, private labeling, and reverse logistics, compliance was proving complex.

Chronicled, a blockchain innovator focused on supply chain automation, stepped in with a bold vision: to digitally transform the pharmaceutical ecosystem using a decentralized, blockchain-backed platform that could offer transparency, accountability, and compliance—without compromising competitive business intelligence.

But to power their MediLedger platform at scale, they needed a cloud-native, highly available architecture—and a DevOps partner that could build it fast.

The Group9 + Foghorn Solution

Foghorn’s FogOps® engineering team, supported through Group9, worked alongside Chronicled’s developers to design a scalable, modular Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS. The system had to be secure, fault-tolerant, and easy to replicate across multiple customer environments—all while automating critical operations from SSL to DNS.

Key Deliverables:

• ⚙️ Modular, Kubernetes-based Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• 🔁 Self-healing, highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes workloads

• 📊 Real-time analytics via Prometheus + Grafana stack

• 🔐 Automated SSL, DNS, and monitoring pipelines

• 🚀 Future migration path to AWS EKS (m-eks module) for reduced maintenance

• 🧰 Terraform-based deployment framework (FogSource™)

The Results

• 🕒 Customer Onboarding Time Reduced: From days to just 1–2 hours

• 💡 Agility & Delivery Speed Improved: Infrastructure now deploys faster, with fewer errors

• 🛠️ Reusable & Scalable: IaC modules built once, now used repeatedly across deployments

• 🔄 Future-Ready Architecture: Easily migratable to AWS-managed services for long-term savings

• 🤝 Trusted Partnership: Chronicled’s innovation accelerated by Foghorn’s AWS + Kubernetes expertise

“Foghorn’s expertise with Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform was key in the design and implementation of our modular, automated customer environments.”
— Ajit Kulkani, Product Lead, Chronicled

Conclusion

By partnering with Foghorn and leveraging AWS cloud-native technologies, Chronicled created a reliable, compliant, and scalable infrastructure to lead the pharmaceutical industry into a new era of blockchain-powered supply chain transparency. From regulatory trust to operational efficiency, this architecture enables long-term growth and peace of mind for manufacturers, wholesalers, and regulators alike.