Vector Solutions
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Challenge
- Consolidation of infrastructure and tools across acquisitons and subsidiaries
- Migration of applications from Rackspace to AWS
- Automate the existing manual processes for provisioning and configuring applications
Solution Delivered to Meet Challenges
- Greenfield approach was choosen for this solutioning
- Different environments have to share common data for that VPC peering was called upon as recommendation
- Different environments and modules were deployed, some in warm and other in cold
Architecture Diagram
AWS Services Used
- AWS Oracle RDS
- AWS EC2
- AWS ALB
- AWS ASG
- AWS KMS
- AWS FSx
- AWS Directory Service
- AWS SFTP
- AWS API Gateway
- AWS S3
- AWS Lambda (Python)
- AWS Cloudformation
- AWS Cloudwatch
- AWS VPC
- AWS SNS/SQS
- AWS SSM Parameter Store
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS IAM
- AWS ACM
Database Workload Migration Details
- Source DB: 1 Oracle on Rackspace
- Target DB: 1 RDS Oracle on AWS
- Number of Schemas Migrated: 500+
- Size of Migrated Data: 500+ GB
- Oracle on Rackspace VM -> Oracle on RDS
Migration Patterns Used
By and Large re-platform pattern was used for server (application servers, utility servers, reporting servers, email servers, compile/rebuild servers and database servers) making some changes to enable these for cloud agnostics.
Migration Tools Used
- Oracle Data pump
- Standby Database using RMAN
Third-Party Tools Used
- Robocopy
- Powershell
- Terraform
- Chef
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.
