Initial Solution Architecture
Leverage robust and scalable AWS infrastructure and managed services to supercharge your business and prepare you for the future.
Whether you’re a small startup or a large enterprise, moving your software applications to a well-designed cloud infrastructure provides an array of compelling value propositions that can revolutionize your business operations.
Reliability and Resilience
Leverage the reliability and resilience of Amazon and other public cloud providers to your benefit.
Scalability
Easily adjust your resources based on demand with just a few clicks or in response to change.
Security
Employ advanced security measures and industry best practices to protect your software systems and data.
Agility and Speed
Leverage managed services, event-based architectures, and low-code/no-code serverless paradigms to speed time to market and improve your ability to experiment.
Cost-effectiveness
Reduce your capital expenditure and pay-as-you-go for the resources you use. Also reduce the cost of standing development and infrastructure teams.
We follow a proven process to ensure your migration is successful
While every migration is unique, there are common steps we go through to identify key challenges, reduce risk, and maximize the value of your migration.
Discovery
Discovery is the first step of our journey where we analyze your current system composition and architecture to evaluate readiness and project scope. We want to consider:
- Number of applications
- Readiness of applications for build and deployment into the cloud
- Capacity of your team to perform code changes in your applications needed for migration
- Number and size of external services required
- Opportunity/necessity for adoption of AWS managed services
- Data and asset migration concerns
- Switchover complexity This produces a report that includes a readiness analysis, proposed architecture, detailed project plan including timeline and cost, and a ready-to-go statement of work.
Core Infrastructure
Using modern infrastructure-as-code and cloud state management we automate the creation of core infrastructure as a foundation for your cloud deployment. This reference architecture is designed to follow AWS Well-Architected principles and is assembled using open source IaC modules. This establishes a secure, compliant, extensible, and recoverable base on which to deploy your applications.
Modernize
The modernization step is the heavy lifting of a cloud migration. This is usually a collaborative effort between your engineers and our team where we look to achieve these major objectives:
- Modify existing applications to conform to cloud requirements. This includes abstraction of environment variables/secrets to allow for agnostic builds, refactor/remove filesystem dependencies, and produce containerized build artifacts.
- Adapt processes for managing data to become cloud-friendly, including database builds, indexing, exports, warehousing, and backup/recovery.
- Replace system components with AWS managed services like databases, search, messaging, authorization, etc.
- Refactor maintenance operations from code into cloud tasks and services.
Automate Build & Deploy
Adopt standardized software development practices like Gitflow and Semantic Versioning to enable continuous build and deployment into AWS. Develop Github Actions or CodeBuild for build and test. Automatically deploy branches or tags to various cloud environments. Leverage AWS Amplify for static site deployment in development and QA lifecycles.
Testing & Remediation
Work with your team to develop and execute a comprehensive, documented test plan for infrastructure and deployment validation. Support your internal validation and remediate any issues into infrastructure-as-code for future deployments. Testing of database migrations and switch-to-live procedures. Assisting with or performing load, compliance and penetration testing prior to launch.
Go Live
Perform data migration and DNS switchover tasks during go-live. Actively monitor the system for issues and warning signs. Identify follow-on action items for optimization and further modernization.
Ongoing Support & Operations
Once things reach steady state we can continue to provide ongoing production support, DevOps support, system maintenance, and monitoring through our Cloud Operations service for as long as you like. And if you think you’ve got things covered but need a lifeline, we can provide secondary support on demand.
The next steps are easy
Introductory Call
One to two hour online meeting to discuss your business objectives, learn about existing system and deployment, understand time and resource constraints, and communicate budget and timeline expectations.
Discovery Workshop
Week-long paid workshop consisting of meetings, code reviews, analysis, and planning. The result is a report that includes a readiness analysis, proposed architecture, detailed project plan including timeline and cost, and a ready-to-go statement of work.
Migration Project
Execute the project plan. All code work done in your applications is yours. All migration projects include a customized implementation of our reference cloud architecture built using open-source infrastructure-as-code modules. This is included in the cost of the migration.
Ongoing Support
Once your system is migrated, we recommend retaining our team to provide ongoing operations as a service for a time period to ensure stabilization, fine-tune the system for real-world use, and maintain the cloud infrastructure. This is a great option for smaller teams or companies without a dedicated cloud infrastructure or DevOps team.
Ready to get started?
We're ready to help. Contact us below to schedule a call to discuss your project and requirements that you have. Be prepared to discuss:
- Your business objectives for migration
- Number and types of applications
- Current deployment strategy and architecture
- Time, resource, and budget constraints