Vector
Vector Solutions serves a broad range of industries with award-winning online education, safety, compliance, and performance optimization solution suites. It offers industry-focused, innovative products to solve their clients’ needs, helping them improve outcomes, optimize performance and reduce risk. Vector Solutions offers number of brands for different streams.
Challenge
- Consolidation of technology stack and aligning with cloud strategy for all the acquisitions including Industry Safe.
- Migrate from infrastructure on Rackspace to AWS
- Implement automation, best practices
Solution Delivered to Meet Challenges
- Migrated IIS/.Net application Servers, Windows file servers, utility server, SFTP and Oracle database from Rackspace to AWS
- Automation of IIS, .Net, Windows Servers bootstrapping
- Migration from windows file server to FSx
- Migration from on-premises SFTP to AWS managed SFTP
- Automation and Migration of Oracle on EC2 to Oracle RDS with minimal downtime
Vision
- AWS is the primary cloud provider for IaaS and PaaS needs
- Leverage cloud agnostic technologies (Terraform, Ansible etc.) wherever applicable
- Use managed services and optimize as needed
Benefits
- Huge success; completed in 6 weeks
- Implemented processes that can be repurposed for future migrations at Vector
- Automated deployments using Terraform and Chef and built the standards
Patch vulnerabilities are handled by the client side although for configurations management, we use AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate.
Microsoft Services
- Microsoft AD (AWS Hosted)
- Microsoft IIS
- AWS Windows FSx
- AWS Windows Instances
AWS Services Used
- AWS AD
- Amazon RDS for Oracle
- AWS SSM
- AWS EBS
- EC2 Instances
- ALBs
- Auto Scaling
- FSx
- SFTP
- AWS Lambda
Documentation
Requirements in this category relate to the documentation provided for each customer example.
AWS Account Configuration
Any AWS accounts created by the APN Partner on behalf of the customer or AWS accounts that the APN Partner administers as part of the engagement must meet the following requirements.
The root user management is done by the client side, although we have IAM users and roles for each resoruce to access the services with proper security measures.
Managed by the client side.
Managed by the client side.
About NorthBay
We are a fast-growing, 100% AWS focused onshore/offshore AWS Premier Consulting Partner, supporting our customers to accelerate the reinvention of their applications and data for a Cloud-native world. Our >350 AWS Certified Employees excel in developing and deploying Database & Application Migrations, Data Lakes and Analytics, Machine Learning/AI, DevOps and Application and Data Modernization/Development that drive measurable business impact.
