From legacy to Cloud: How one of our clients transformed its infrastructure and cut costs by 40%
Our client operated legacy servers across four continents, each running in isolation. Maintenance was expensive, and deployments took days. Downtime incidents were becoming frequent, with one outage alone resulting in losing a six-figure client. Nearly 70 percent of the IT budget was spent on running the infrastructure, leaving little room for innovation. Leadership knew they needed to modernize, but the risk of business disruption increased the stakes.
Our tech team designed a migration roadmap to minimize disruption while maximizing long-term efficiency.
- In Phase 1, we migrated core workloads to AWS using EC2 and RDS, enabling auto-scaling.
- In Phase 2, legacy monoliths were refactored into containerized micro-services using Kubernetes.
- In Phase 3, we decommissioned all on-premise servers and deployed automated CI/CD pipelines through GitHub Actions.
Security was embedded from day one. We implemented role-based access control, encrypted backups, and VPC peering and ran zero-downtime switchovers during cutover periods. The internal IT team received targeted training to manage the cloud environment confidently after project handover.
Within six months, the cloud transformation delivered results that exceeded business expectations:
- 40 percent reduction in infrastructure and maintenance costs in the first fiscal year
- 70 percent faster application response times across business-critical tools
- Deployment times dropped from 2–3 days to under 45 minutes
- 99.99 percent uptime was achieved across all global regions, up from 96.2 percent
- No critical security incidents were recorded post-migration
- 80 percent of cloud operations are now managed internally without external support
This transformation allowed the organization to move from reactive IT maintenance to proactive innovation. The cloud is no longer a simple infrastructure; it has become an unavoidable strategic advantage.
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