Cloud Transformation
A cloud migration initiative for a mid-market focused online commerce company to optimize and modernize infrastructure and services.
Objectives
- Migrate legacy digital services platform from on-premises data centre to AWS to optimize infrastructure cost and reduce security risks.
- Migration of 400,000+ customers without impacting end customer experience.
- Build vs Buy assessment of legacy services to align with future business goals.
- Retire legacy components and modernize to Microservices.
- Retire on-premises security tools and adopt core cloud services.
Challenges
- Agility of rolling out new services and features.
- Continuous security threat due to legacy operating system and hardware.
- Hardware refresh taking longer time due to supply chain issues.
- Service modernization needs to align with industry trends to meet customer expectations and competitive advantage.
- 15% to 20% negative growth of revenue every year.
Challenges
- Agility of rolling out new services and features.
- Continuous security threat due to legacy operating system and hardware.
- Hardware refresh taking longer time due to supply chain issues.
- Service modernization needs to align with industry trends to meet customer expectations and competitive advantage.
- 15% to 20% negative growth of revenue every year.
Solution
Architecture assessment and infrastructure configuration on AWS Cloud.
Ported legacy code to Kubernetes/docker environment before deploying on cloud.
Simplified number of core components by redeveloping them using Microservices Architecture.
Complex migration of various data elements, including CDN objects, unstructured filers, MySQL databases, customer images, transactional data et al.
Application of industry best practices (GDPR, PCI, Vulnerability Management) for securing two million credit card details.
Redesigned data pipelines to improve business insights.
Acceleration of the migration and data validation with automated customer data migration scripts using Python.
Code migration from to cloud Git.
Configuration of automatic monitoring to provide real time auditing of the platform.
Technology
AWS solutions like CloudFront, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, FSx, ElasticCache, Glue, GuardDuty. Lambda, Secrets Manager, Elastic File Systems, and X-Ray.
Alert Logic, Elastic File Systems, Postgres, Looker, Power BI, Salesforce, Marketo, Docker, Cheff, cPanel
Outcome
Migration of 300K+ customers; 74% of business revenue moved to the modern platform.
40% infrastructure optimization.
Minimal downtime during the entire modernization program.
Fixed over 100 security defects.
1500+ servers decommissioned.