Cost Optimization Tips to Reduce Cloud Spend
Continued fears and signals of an impending economic recession have pushed businesses to be more cost-conscious with their finances. According to CNBC, some enterprises are…
Challenge
The customer runs a very successful Digital Marketing firm with a large number of clients and has been a long-term partner of WSM. The customer realized that hosting customer applications in a legacy hosting provider was too limiting in terms of being able to provide market-leading services. The customer chose AWS as the right environment for their customers but did not yet have the internal expertise to deploy and migrate workloads to AWS.
Solution
WSM began migrating new environments from legacy hosting providers to AWS as per the customer’s requirements. WSM built custom VPCs using CloudFormation Templates and migrating instances based on EC2 and RDS, as well as leveraging other services such as Fargate and ECS.
Results
The customer very quickly saw the value of AWS and the ease of scaling the environment to meet their customer’s requirements. Furthermore, the customer was able to leverage AWS native service to reduce the administrative overhead of managing the environment.