Devyx: Azure to AWS Migration Focused on Scalability and Agility

Devyx is a company specialized in developing custom technology solutions, focused on delivering innovative, high-quality software products to its clients. They offer a full range of development services, from conception to implementation, with a client-centered approach to ensure tailored solutions that meet each business's specific needs.

Devyx was facing significant challenges with its current infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure. As the company grew and client demands increased, the need arose for a more efficient and scalable solution. They needed a way to optimize their cloud environment, improve performance, and gain greater agility to meet constantly evolving business objectives. Beyond infrastructure being a challenge to adapt, the application also required modifications.

A second challenge was environment separation to control costs. In the Azure environment, all environments were concentrated in a single account, sharing the same infrastructure.

Costs were also a determining factor for project adoption, since cost predictability on AWS is simpler, ensuring linear tracking of consumption within the platform.

Our approach began with running the Elevata Compass, a detailed assessment to identify gaps across the six dimensions of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: business, process, people, platform, operations, and security. This assessment allowed us to determine the capabilities needed for migration and develop a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) model for the project.

Based on the assessment results, we initiated the migration, building a solid operational foundation for the transition, with the goal of addressing the identified capability gaps. In this phase, we accelerated Devyx's migration decisions by providing clear guidance on migration plans and increasing the project's chances of success. Elevata completed Devyx's migration from Azure to AWS, implementing services such as EKS, EC2, and RDS for PostgreSQL, providing an optimized cloud environment, improving performance, and offering greater agility to meet Devyx's business demands.

In parallel with the required infrastructure, all application changes and adaptations were made, with ideas and insights provided by Elevata to Devyx's Development team. At this point, adopting the AWS SDK to help the application interact with cloud services was vital to ensure a robust application with all the interoperability needed for day-to-day operations.

Regarding environments, during the migration to AWS, a multi-account concept was adopted, ensuring effective segregation of environments (Dev, Pre-Prod, and Prod). This process was vital to ensure a secure development process for the application, since every change made to the application has a completely safe new environment for testing.