Migrating from legacy systems to modern, cloud-based platforms like AWS is not a question of “if” but “when.” A smooth transition is crucial for improved availability, scalability, and, ultimately, staying competitive. However, undertaking such a transformation requires the expertise and guidance of the right technology partner.
AWS recently announced that AWS OpsWorks Stacks—a configuration management service that helps businesses configure and operate applications in a cloud enterprise—no longer accepts new customers.
After May 26, 2024, existing customers will be unable to use the OpsWorks console, API, CLI, and CloudFormation resources.
To continue leveraging all the AWS features, such as new Amazon EC2 instance types, new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, new operating systems, and application load balancers, AWS OpsWorks Stacks customers should migrate their existing workloads to suitable AWS services within the AWS ecosystem.
How to make the transition smooth?
By selecting the right technology partner and leveraging the capabilities of a platform like AWS, your business can successfully navigate the complex journey of legacy migration and emerge more robust and resilient.
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Legacy System Migration Case Study: 40% Cost Savings and 99.99% Website Availability with AWS Serverless Approach
Explore the importance of timely migration from a legacy platform to an optimized cloud infrastructure on the example of a project for a global multidomain web recruitment platform owner.
With the growing traffic of up to millions of active daily users, the platform revealed its bottlenecks: the client experienced maintenance, support, and performance issues. At the same time, the client did not have an in-house R&D team to enhance the system. With only a few support and maintenance professionals, the client needed help handling the legacy code refactoring and solving website performance issues.
Intetics Remote In-Sourcing® team empowered the platform with AWS technologies and developed a solution with enhanced features and better-quality services.
The legacy code had monolith parts that were split into 31 AWS microservices.
Autoscaling groups and fully managed services were developed for scaling and handling unpredicted request spikes. As a result, website availability rose to 99.99%. The serverless approach optimized costs since the client pays only for utilized resources—the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) was reduced by 40%.
The team members carefully migrated around 1.7M user accounts and CVs without any data leakage.
Final Words
AWS’s decision to phase out OpsWorks in 2024 again highlights the speed of change in the technology landscape. Ensuring existing stack migration is crucial, but what’s more vital is planning an ongoing innovation and adaptation with the support of the right partner to leverage the capabilities of a platform like AWS efficiently.
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