LIFT AND SHIFT
Migrating from a private, on-premise cloud to the public cloud. Embracing all new benefits and being able to make use of big data platforms. We started with the designs and ended up shutting down the on-premise cloud.
Lift and Shift Migration
Complete migration from on-premise private cloud to public cloud infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services
Migrated to AWS platform for enhanced scalability and global infrastructure.
Infrastructure as Code
Complete infrastructure defined as code for repeatability and version control.
Scalable & Flexible
Elastic infrastructure that scales on demand with flexible resource allocation.
Cost Optimization
Significant cost savings through cloud optimization and pay-per-use model.
Big Data Ready
Access to advanced big data platforms, machine learning, and AI services.
Summary
Customer decided to make the move to the public cloud to be more flexible, scalable and have more control over costs. Customer wanted to be able to make use big data platforms, machine learning and AI.
The Challenge
Due to very strict timelines we had to work quickly in order to reach the deadlines of migrating to Amazon Web Services. Every delay would bring extra costs by extending their current contracts, also the duration of the lift and shift operation would mean extra costs by running their infrastructure in parallel. Large parts of their application landscape was not 'cloud ready' yet and we needed to find ways to properly deal with that without making compromises to availability and performance.
The Solution
By writing out their infrastructure as code that was kept in source control we made it possible to work simultaneously and even made their development team able to collaborate. Writing infrastructure-as-code enabled us to re-use large parts within the different stages of DTAP.
Next to the infrastructure-as-code we used configuration management tooling and software to automate the creation of 'golden machine images'. By using this combination we got the ability to make the infrastructure push button deployable which saved a lot of time and made deploying over 100 EC2 instances a breeze.
The architecture was monitored with DataDog and log scraping was done with an ELK stack. From this point we were able to transform legacy applications into cloud native solutions, lowering costs and increasing the cycle time of their development teams.
AWS, Azure, GCP
Design, Plan, Build
Everything in code, speed, consistancy, repeatability, ...
Centrally managed cloud infrastructure
Going Cloud Native
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