Migration of on premises business applications (Utilities)
Challenges
- Empty 2 existing data centres in 2 years
- Migrate all applications and infrastructure to AWS
- Work with multi-vendors to provide the migration patterns and deployments
- Regulatory and Compliance issues paramount
- Target model AWS
Industry: Utility
Top UK Provider (FTSE 250 listed)
Solution
- Using AWS frameworks/services migrated to a private cloud
- Lift and Shift, with some refactoring to allow the applications to run on AWS
- Built Patterns to move logical groups of assets including infrastructure
- VMs deployments, given skills, resources constraints
- Dev-Sec-Ops pipelines built including testing
- Security models built and deployed
Benefits
- Patterns allowed migration at scale
- Mapping applications to infrastructure reduced downtime
- Integration with ITSM, SIEM, SIAM vendors allowed centralised management and logging