Sunset on-premise Data Center with Location Change
Lift-shift and reshape on AWS to meet agility needs
Global Auto Manufacturer
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.
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
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.