Customer Anon Case Study

About: A company known for its expertise in developing Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions focusing on industries like retail, distribution, and manufacturing. Particularly, it’s ERP software that integrates tools and modules to streamline operations, and manage resources in an effective way.

Challenge:

The organization's on-premises infrastructure presented significant initial expenses and lacked the flexibility needed to keep pace with evolving market requirements. Continuous hardware maintenance and upgrades added pressure to operational costs. Their objective was to improve efficiency, promote teamwork, and adjust to market shifts while keeping expenses in check.

Solution:

In response to the organization's challenges, a comprehensive migration and modernization project leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) was proposed for a seamless transition to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The proposed solution involved migrating data via CloudFormation using its templates to modernize the process and ensure minimal downtime and disruption. Employing a serverless architecture for the frontend and containerized architecture for the backend offers scalability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, a serverless application model was adopted for its pay-per-execution feature, aiding in cost optimization. The objective was to eliminate upfront capital expenditure, reduce operational expenses, and provide the organization with a scalable and reliable infrastructure.

Outcomes:

• Improved disaster recovery abilities by leveraging AWS features
• Successfully migrated from on-premises to AWS Cloud
• Reduced operational expenses as well as upfront capital expendeture
• Improved the organizations ability to adapt to changes in the market as is needed

AWS Services in the Solution made:

• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS S3
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Amazon Cognito
• AWS AppSync
• Amazon API Gateway
• AWS Lambda
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Amazon Redshift
• AWS CodeBuild
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Amazon Aurora
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

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