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Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change

Lift-shift and reshape on AWS to meet agility needs

Global Auto Manufacturer

Challenge

Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Challenge
  • Client has planned movement of head quarters and datacenter facilities from California to Texas.
  • Datacenter in California hosted various digital workloads on virtualized environments which was planned to be moved to AWS cloud.
  • Applications were horizontally and vertically scaled across VMs which made mapping and dependency analysis complex.
  • Hard decommission dates were set to save real estate cost.
Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Challenge
Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Solution

Solution

Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Solution
  • Collected data across VMs, applications, dependencies, and impacted systems.
  • Developed a program to analyze the move groups and arrive an optimal wave plan for application teams.
  • Prioritized program plan by piloting one new tech stack in each wave.
  • Multiskilled factory team worked with application teams and consumers to migrate and cutover.

Technologies

Route 53
Cloud - Front
API - Gateway
Amazon - SES
AWS - lambda
EC2
Amazon - SQS
Amazon - Aurora
Dynamo - DB
Transit - Gateway

Benefits

Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Benefits
  • 110 applications across 12 variety of tech stacks migrated in 1 year.
  • Traceability into move groups and dependencies gave stakeholders closer to actual ETA and were able to accurately budget. expenditure in advance
  • 50% Cost reduction for infrastructure spend after moving to cloud.
  • Migration Planned dates close to actuals in 90% cases.
  • Low operational overheads and team agility improved in 15 months.
Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change - Benefits