Our Cases: Cloud Migration for Big Retail

For a leading retail company from Germany we performed a long-needed and desired migration to cloud improving scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the e-commerce website operating with significant growth of the retail process performance and user experience enhancement.

Client: A leading Germany retail company

Project: Migration from existing on-premises infrastructure to cloud.

Infrastructure: High-loaded website at own bare metal server moving to public cloud.

The Challenges

1. Legacy infrastructure

Problem: The existing on-premises infrastructure was outdated and not designed for high scalability and availability. Impact: Performance gaps and delays in orders processing? at high operational costs.

2. Data migration Initial Architecture

Problem: Migrating a large amount of data, including customer information, product catalog, and order history, to the cloud while ensuring data integrity and security.

Impact: Risk of losing very business-critical data.

3. Compatibility

Problem: Ensuring seamless integration and compatibility of the existing e-commerce infrastructure with the cloud environment.

Impact: Possible business process failures caused by incompatibility.

4. Downtime minimization

Problem: Minimizing website downtime during the migration process to avoid customer dissatisfaction and revenue loss.

Impact: Harm company image in the eyes of customers, negative impact on SEO.

?Our Solutions

1. Expert outsourcing team

Solution: We provided a team of 6 highly qualified IT specialists:?

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Outcome: Fast and cost-effective team building.

2. Discovery and assessment

Solution: Conducted a thorough assessment of the existing infrastructure, application architecture, and data to identify potential challenges and plan the migration strategy.

Outcome: Obtaining and systematizing all information necessary for the successful implementation of the project.

3. Infrastructure design

Solution: Designed a scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, leveraging services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancer to meet the client's requirements

Outcome: Modern and effective architecture in the cloud fully compliant with business needs.

3. Data migration

Solution: Developed a comprehensive migration plan, including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes. Implemented encryption and security measures to protect the data.

Outcome: Secure and reliable moving of highly sensitive client’s data to AWS cloud.

4. Application migration

Solution: Refactored the e-commerce application to make it cloud-compatible, leveraging containerization with Docker. Implemented Kubernetes for container orchestration and auto-scaling capabilities

Outcome: Effective application redesign for modern container technology.

5. Testing and validation

Solution: Conducted extensive testing to ensure the migrated application's functionality, performance, and security. Implemented automated testing processes to streamline future updates and maintenance

Outcome: Guarantee of full availability of infrastructure in the cloud

Results

1. Improved scalability: The cloud infrastructure allowed the client to seamlessly scale their e-commerce website based on traffic demands, ensuring optimal user experience during peak periods.
2. Enhanced reliability: The migration to AWS provided high availability and fault tolerance, reducing downtime and improving the website's overall reliability.
3. Cost-efficiency: By leveraging AWS's pay-as-you-go model, the client achieved cost savings by eliminating the need for on-premises hardware maintenance and the ability to scale resources as needed.
4. Increased performance: The application refactoring and containerization resulted in improved performance and faster response times, enhancing the user experience.
5. Data security: The migration process included robust security measures, such as encryption and access control, ensuring the protection of customer data and compliance with industry regulations

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