Enterprise Cloud Migration
An Important Financial Company in the Caribbean gains scalability and optimizes their costs by migrating to AWS
Outcome(s)/Results:
By migrating to AWS, the financial company was able to:
- Improve the scalability and flexibility of its IT infrastructure to meet changing business demands
- Reduce the operational overhead and maintenance costs associated with managing on-premises hardware
- Enhance the security and reliability of its IT systems through the use of AWS’s robust cloud capabilities
- Leverage the latest cloud-native technologies and services to modernize its digital channels and data analytics capabilities
Customer Challenge
The financial company recognized the need to modernize its IT infrastructure and operations to better support its evolving business requirements. The company’s on-premises setup had grown increasingly complex and cumbersome to manage, hindering its ability to scale and adapt to changing market demands.
Seeking a more flexible, cost-effective, and reliable solution, the company decided to outsource its IT infrastructure and workloads to a leading cloud provider. The company’s diverse technology landscape encompassed a wide range of mission-critical components, including virtual machines, customer engagement solutions, data lakes, digital channels, and various supporting IT tools.
By migrating to the cloud, the company aimed to leverage the scalability, elasticity, and cost optimization capabilities that a cloud-based approach could provide. This strategic move would enable the company to focus on its core business priorities, while the cloud provider managed the underlying infrastructure and operations.
Overall Solution
Having evaluated multiple cloud providers, the financial company selected AWS as its strategic partner to host and manage its IT infrastructure. The company recognized AWS’s robust capabilities, proven track record, and comprehensive suite of cloud services as the ideal fit to support its diverse technology landscape.
Working closely with AWS and its implementation partner, DFX5, the company embarked on a comprehensive migration and modernization initiative. This encompassed the company’s entire workload portfolio, including the general servers workload – a critical component that consisted of Windows and Linux servers running various internal applications, such as IIS-based systems, SQL Server databases, and core banking integrations.
The collaborative effort between the company, AWS, and DFX5 ensured a smooth and efficient transition of the company’s on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. This enabled the company to leverage the scalability, reliability, and advanced capabilities of the AWS platform, while streamlining its operations and reducing the burden of managing its own data centers.
Third Party Applications or Solutions Used:
The company utilized a variety of AWS services and third-party applications to support its migrated workloads, including:
The company utilized a variety of AWS services and third-party applications to support its migrated workloads, including:
- Amazon EC2 for hosting the virtual machines
- Amazon S3 for data storage
- AWS Lambda for serverless computing
- AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Backup