The problem
Provisioning hardware took weeks and required up-front investment. Without managed services, the team spent time monitoring and maintaining infrastructure instead of experimenting and shipping features.
What we built
After assessing the business’s growth goals and engineering capacity, we recommended and delivered a move from its data center to AWS.
- Assessed the existing environment and migration options.
- Migrated two production applications and two production databases.
- Completed the transition over three weeks with minimal downtime.
- Introduced managed services including RDS and SQS.
What changed
Less infrastructure work. More room to build.
The team could add and remove capacity as needed and rely on managed services for work it had previously operated itself. The migration reduced the infrastructure burden on its small engineering team.
The technical decisions
The starting question was smaller.
The team initially wanted to improve the developer experience in its existing data center. The assessment showed a broader migration better fitted its growth goals and capacity.
Move production deliberately.
Applications and databases had to transition while the business kept running. The project account describes a three-week migration with minimal downtime; it does not claim zero downtime.