AWS Cloud Migration for a Financial Services Company

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A successful migration of on-prem web and mobile applications to AWS was achieved, transitioning to a serverless architecture with containerization. The solution included a phased traffic migration, robust DevSecOps pipelines, and monitoring, resulting in 30% cost savings, a 20% productivity boost, and completion of the migration in just 8 months, ahead of the planned 12-month timeline.

  • Migrate on-prem web and mobile applications to AWS
  • Refactor application to containerize and host in a serverless architecture
  • Setup DevOps pipeline for both infrastructure and application
  • Implement DevSecOps framework to establish factory model for continuous migration
  • Performed 4 weeks Proof of Technology to containerize on-prem application components in ECS Fargate and Lambda
  • Worked with cloud Security, cloud platform and cloud architecture groups within the bank to establish roadmap to migrate major applications
  • Established phased traffic/load migration from on-prem to cloud to ensure no impact to business
  • Pipeline setup using Veracode Azure DevOps and GoCD to include code scanning and container image scanning (Black Duck)
  • Established robust monitoring (CloudWatch, AppDynamics) for zero downtime and auto scaling to handle seasonal increase in load
  • Optimized resources in both non-prod and prod environments for cost savings and setup alarms for usage threshold
  • Achieved cost saving of 30% compared to on-prem infrastructure cost
  • Able to delivery application releases faster and improved 20% productivity gain
  • Met release compliance for security scanning and identifying vulnerabilities through Pipeline
  • Completed end to end migration sooner than planned duration (8 months vs 12 months)