An EdTech Firm Overcomes Database and Analytics Challenges through a Smooth Migration to AWS

Solutions

• Amazon Windows EC2 instances were used to host the client’s primary application, which was migrated from Azure. 
• Microsoft IIS and dependencies were installed on each client’s Windows application server. 
• AWS RDS for MS SQL Server and Volume 230 GB with multi-AZ deployment was used to migrate the Azure Database. Also, Scheduled Backup was configured about the disaster recovery. 
• AWS Managed Microsoft AD was set up to manage the users, groups policies, roles, licenses, devices, Amazon EC2 servers, etc. 
• Migrated 3.5TB Azure Storage objects to Amazon S3 storage and implemented lifecycle policies for cost optimization. 
• Basic architecting services such as Autoscaling, Load Balancers, and multi-AZ deployments were used to make highly available, scalable, and redundant infrastructure. 
• Amazon CloudWatch services were used to monitor the environment and application, whereas AWS CloudTrail was used to trace the error logs and access logs. 
• Knowledge Transfer sessions and documentation are provided to help us to understand their environment for future changes if required.