50% infrastructure cost redaction by migrating to the Cloud

The client operated within two 15-year-old data centers. Eventually, the existing infrastructure became inefficient, costly, difficult to maintain, and challenging to predict. After evaluating options, the client decided to migrate to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, aiming for a more streamlined and efficient operation.

ETX Capital faced a significant lack of automation. All tasks were handled manually, leading to cases where, for instance, requests for new testing environments took several weeks to process. The absence of a robust monitoring and log collector hindered the business's ability to foresee operational issues and address them effectively.

The client was committed to transitioning from data centers to the cloud within 12 months. The licenses for specific software used by the company were nearing expiration. Throughout the project, data center equipment frequently malfunctioned, making it more practical to accelerate the migration to the cloud rather than allocate time for repairs.

Given their longstanding usage of legacy on-premise infrastructure, ETX Capital didn't have in-house DevOps Engineers. The client relied solely on Infrastructure Engineers to keep data centers and virtual machines. The internal tech team had no prior experience with cloud technologies and lacked the necessary expertise.

The planning and execution of migrating from data centers to the cloud fell entirely to the OpsWorks Co. team. Our engineers made regular trips to the client's offices to facilitate the transition and address any technical issues that arose.

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We developed a sturdy hybrid and multi-regional infrastructure that integrated on-premise data centers in the UK with offices in London, Turin, and Limassol at the network level. While 98% of the entire infrastructure was hosted on AWS, it also incorporated several GCP and Microsoft Azure services.

While working on this project, engineers from OpsWorks Co. set up logging and monitoring for both the server part and platform services to gather valuable business metrics, such as the number of open trade positions, active sessions, etc. This solution assisted ETX Capital in anticipating platform operation issues before they occur, enabling the client to prevent downtime and reduce maintenance costs.

The transition to a hybrid cloud environment entailed automating every service we migrated. Since the client's architecture wasn't prepared for migration to AWS, our experts had to rigorously test each service in the cloud and tailor our strategies and tools accordingly. The team at OpsWorks Co. tackled all dependencies with a suite of technologies, including Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm, and Telegraf, among others.

This collaboration provided a fantastic opportunity for our engineers to share their expertise and DevOps best practices with the client's in-house team. Our specialists conducted informative training sessions for the ETX Capital tech department throughout the project. Additionally, we were actively involved in the selection and hiring process of new engineers to strengthen the client's business.