{"id":9525,"date":"2021-12-20T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:06:02","slug":"strategizing-effective-cloud-migrations-with-an-example-case-study","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/strategizing-effective-cloud-migrations-with-an-example-case-study","title":{"rendered":"Strategizing Effective Cloud Migrations with an Example Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Gartner, by the end of 2021, 70% of organizations worldwide have migrated at least some workloads to the public cloud. Also, Gartner has identified 6 important factors that can derail cloud migration strategies of companies have been identified and they are: Choosing a wrong cloud migration ally, rushed application assessments, setting the wrong emphasis, poor landing zone designs, dependency bottlenecks, and hidden indirect costs. This blog post decodes how CloudThat<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has helped its clients to ensure a seamless and cost-effective cloud migration and helped them to meet their business objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
TABLE OF CONTENT<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Customer Challenge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assessment Process Employed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business Objectives Identified<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Our Proposed Solution<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Role of AWS in the Proposed Solution<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Project Outcomes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Architecture Diagram and Design Used<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conclusion<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Introduction<\/h1>\n

As\u00a0organizations scale, customer demand increases rapidly. To meet the increasing demands, organizations tend to opt for newer and advanced cloud technologies. Cloud Service providers are competing today to provide improved reliability and customer experience through their software applications. While adopting new cloud technologies is a challenge, adhering to the budget without compromising the security posture can prove to be next to impossible without an expert.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CloudThat offers consulting and system integration services to our clients along with cloud migration manages services, and Well-Architected Review (WAR). CloudThat\u00a0<\/span>ensures\u00a0cloud-delivered systems\u202fadhere to the security\u202frequirements and compliance standards\u202fexpected by the\u202fcustomers\u202fin a multi-cloud environment<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Among our various global clients,\u00a0 A\u00a0 client who offers a data platform for digital publishers approached\u00a0us\u00a0to migrate their infrastructure along with data from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS).\u00a0Let us dive deep into the details about the customer challenges, migration process, proposed solutions, outcomes, and architectural diagram description.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Customer Background<\/h1>\n

Our client is a performance data platform\u00a0<\/span>for digital publishers\u00a0<\/span>that helps marquee publishers like\u00a0<\/span>Futbol<\/span>\u00a0Sites\/<\/span>BolaVIP<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Carousell<\/span>, TSM Games\/<\/span>BlitZ<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>LaOpinion<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>ElDiario<\/span>, 1Weather, Times Internet –\u00a0<\/span>Gaana<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>InMobi<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>FrontStory<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>SonyLIV<\/span>, Zee5, Digit & eBay with use cases around analytics & optimization to help them manage & boost their ad-revenues.<\/span>\u00a0They equip their customers with real-time data and insights to manage and accelerate revenue growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Customer Challenge<\/h1>\n

The client’s<\/span>\u00a0requirements were to migrate their Infrastructure along with data from G<\/span>oogle Cloud\u00a0<\/span>P<\/span>latform<\/span>\u00a0to AWS<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>All the applications and services which belong\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>GCP should be migrated\u00a0<\/span>to AWS<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>To meet the increasing customer demand, the client<\/span>\u00a0wanted to migrate their application\u00a0<\/span>running on GCP\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>the AWS\u00a0<\/span>cloud and\u00a0<\/span>manage the\u00a0<\/span>infrastructure<\/span>\u00a0efficiently<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The client required a robust and world-class infrastructure deployed on the AWS cloud platform to mitigate\u00a0<\/span>the major\u00a0<\/span>challenges.<\/span>\u00a0Managing the current AWS resources and creating new resources with standard practices was a significant challenge for the client. The entire engineering process needed to be changed to improve reliability and customer experience.\u00a0<\/span>The focus was on\u00a0<\/span>cost optimization,<\/span>\u00a0fault-tolerant, and HA (highly available) applications hosted on AWS cloud for a successful IT transformation for the client’s business environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Assessment Process Employed<\/h1>\n

Our client was keen on building a robust cloud migration methodology\u00a0to improve reliability and performance, operate more securely, optimize costs,\u00a0and\u00a0automate security and thus improve the overall security posture.\u00a0\u00a0Their existing\u00a0used\u00a0Dataflow for Batch and Streaming\u00a0jobs\u00a0where Batch jobs\u00a0were\u00a0infrequent running day by day in Dataflow and Streaming job\u00a0was running for\u00a0previous\u00a0160 days.\u00a0They\u00a0inserted\u00a0data streams\u00a0during\u00a0the transformation from Cloud Pub\/Sub to Big Query\u00a0streaming jobs.\u00a0We\u00a0assessed and\u00a0suggested to\u00a0them\u00a0to\u00a0use the service from the Kinesis data family\u00a0for\u00a0data streaming and batch jobs.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They employed\u00a0BigQuery\u00a0for\u00a0querying on 50 TB of their data and\u00a0for\u00a0performing streaming inserts\u00a0coming from Dataflow. And then that data\u00a0was\u00a0queried on the basis\u00a0of\u00a0business logic required from\u00a0Big\u00a0Query and sent to the application.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though\u00a0for\u00a0BigQuery\u00a0we\u00a0have\u00a0two options\u00a0Athena or Redshift in AWS\u00a0as\u00a0per the\u00a0processing requirements.\u00a0Eventually, we zeroed down on\u00a0Athena\u00a0as\u00a0it\u00a0will be cheaper than Redshift providing cost optimization benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Business Objectives Identified<\/h1>\n