Cloud Migration and Infrastructure Modernization from Legacy Data Centers to AWS Platform

The client relies on legacy dedicated server infrastructure to host a vast digital library, which poses risks related to hardware failures, limited scalability, high operational costs, and performance bottlenecks. They lack the flexibility to easily scale resources to meet demand spikes and cannot efficiently manage or monitor their existing environment, leading to potential downtime and increased costs. Additionally, physical hardware maintenance and data security concerns impede operational efficiency.

A large-scale digital content platform hosting extensive libraries of ebooks and audiobooks, seeking to improve stability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

• Achieve a seamless migration of existing workloads and data from legacy data centers to a cloud-based environment without service disruption.
• Reduce operational hosting costs by at least 45% annually.
• Increase system observability and monitoring capabilities by at least 51% to improve operational insights and incident response.
• Implement a secure, reliable, and scalable virtual network infrastructure aligned with best practices.
• Enhance future scalability and performance of the platform to accommodate growing content and user demand.
• Establish comprehensive security and access management policies to protect sensitive data.

• Design and deploy a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for a logically isolated network environment.
• Facilitate migration of applications, databases, and workloads with minimal downtime and data integrity assurance.
• Integrate monitoring tools to enable performance logging, resource utilization tracking, and alert notifications.
• Implement automation for resource provisioning, configuration, and release deployment following best practices.
• Establish security protocols including access control, encryption, and compliance measures.
• Enable capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost monitoring for ongoing management.

• Existing content management and databases for data migration.
• Monitoring and alerting tools for system observability.
• Security systems for access control and data encryption.
• Incident and change management systems to facilitate operational workflows.

• Achieve system uptime and availability targets to ensure zero downtime during migration.
• Ensure security compliance and data protection standards are met or exceeded.
• Design for scalability to support at least a 50% increase in content and user demand over the next year.
• Optimize for performance efficiency with fast provisioning and low-latency data access.
• Maintain cost efficiency with a targeted 38-45% reduction in operational expenses.

Successful migration and modernization will result in improved platform stability, enhanced scalability, and significant cost savings, with operational costs expected to decrease by approximately 38-45%. System observability will increase by over 50%, enabling quicker incident detection and resolution. The new cloud environment will support future growth initiatives, improve security posture, and deliver a more reliable, high-performing content hosting platform.