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The client is a leading technology company that serves medium to large organizations with performance management, experience design, open source development, and hosting technology.
Transitioning from a single cloud provider like AWS to a multi-cloud strategy can be a powerful solution, especially for a company with global expansion plans. Here’s a breakdown of the challenges they faced while on AWS and how a multi-cloud approach, particularly leveraging Azure, can address those issues:
Lack of High Availability: The absence of high availability in multiple regions hindered the client’s ability to provide consistent service to customers, leading to potential downtime and customer dissatisfaction.
Increased Operational Costs: The need to hire additional labor resources to manage infrastructure and ensure uptime resulted in significant operational expenses. This was likely due to manual processes and the inability to automate or scale efficiently.
Scalability Issues: As customer demands increased, the existing AWS setup may not have been able to scale quickly enough to meet those needs, leading to performance bottlenecks.
The client was running and managing its hosting services in an OpenShift Container Platform on VM clusters on AWS. With SNP’s support, the client validated that it could run its hosting service in a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Azure. Utilizing Go-Fast funding and SNP’s internal resources, SNP helped the client migrate clusters from OpenShift on AWS to Azure Kubernetes Services.
OpenShift to AKS: The client was previously managing its hosting services using OpenShift on AWS. With SNP’s support, they validated that their workloads could be effectively transitioned to AKS, leveraging Azure’s robust Kubernetes environment.
Go-Fast Funding: Utilizing Go-Fast funding helped accelerate the migration process. This funding model often provides resources for cloud initiatives, making it easier for clients to invest in necessary tools and services.
SNP’s Internal Resources: By leveraging SNP’s expertise and resources, the migration process was streamlined, ensuring minimal disruption to the client’s operations.
- Cost Efficiency: Running workloads on Azure may lead to better pricing models, especially when using features like auto-scaling and reserved instances, resulting in optimized operational costs.After successfully migrating their infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Azure, the client’s infrastructure management time has reduced by 80% with managed support from SNP.
- Scalability and Flexibility: Azure Kubernetes Service offers a highly scalable platform that allows the client to easily adjust their resources based on demand, ensuring efficient handling of varying workloads.
- Integrated Azure Services: By migrating to Azure, the client can take advantage of a wide range of Azure services, such as Azure DevOps for CI/CD, Azure Monitor for observability, and Azure Security tools for enhanced protection.
- After successfully migrating their infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Azure, the client’s infrastructure management time has reduced by 80% with managed support from SNP.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Azure provides built-in features for high availability and disaster recovery, ensuring that the client’s applications remain resilient and can recover quickly from any outages.
- Enhanced Management: With AKS, the client benefits from simplified management and orchestration of their containerized applications, making it easier to deploy, scale, and manage their services.
- Support for Modernization: The migration sets the foundation for further application modernization initiatives, allowing the client to implement microservices architectures and leverage cloud-native development practices.
