McQueen Autocorp Maximizes Performance by Migrating to AWS
Expertise Delivered
Industry
Our client,
McQueen Autocorp is a leading US-based used car selling company with a buyer network spread across the entire United States. McQueen Autocorp offers a nationwide modern car selling service, facilitates sellers with an instant offer for their car(s) using price prediction algorithms and real-time bids from an extensive network of licensed buyers.
Disclaimer - The name McQueen Autocorp is a placeholder as there is an NDA signed between both parties.
Challenge
The client’s platform was on-premise. They mainly struggled with the maintenance difficulties and lack of scalability of the infrastructure supporting their operations.
Planning for surges in website traffic and adding capacity took additional time and increased costs. Accommodating the growth progression of the business was becoming difficult due to the limitations of the on-premise system.
Limitations of the On-Premise System
- Changes in the IT infrastructure required well-in-advance planning and research.
- High capital expenditure on hardware and software.
- Dedicated IT team for maintenance and software updates.
- Customizations could lead to software support issues.
- Lengthy deployments.
Maruti Techlabs’ DevOps consultants and technical architects were roped in for an end to end analysis, and subsequent on-premise to cloud migration.
Your Cloud Migration Journey With Maruti Techlabs
Our goal here is to empower you and your organization to scale your applications rapidly with innovative cloud solutions. Here’s our step-by-step process outlining how we help you leverage the full power of a successful cloud migration.
Discover
- Carry out a detailed SWOT analysis on your organization’s current status for operating in the cloud.
- Assess the potential business outcomes & work on developing a business case for moving to the cloud.
- Outline the upfront investment, timeline, and licensing.
Migrate
- Design the action plan for a secure and fast migration in a phase-wise manner.
- Conduct a pilot to see Proof of Value & schedule the migration.
- Deploy migration strategies ranging from relocation, rehosting, refactoring, repurchasing, retiring, to retaining.
- Execute security as well as regression testing.
Modernize
- Identify and get a detailed understanding of interdependencies between applications to transform and scale via cloud modernization.
- Set KPIs and benchmarks for a seamless experience and application performance.
- Establish automation for analyzing, protecting, and enforcing regulatory compliance.
- Constant iteration of the new foundation, retire old systems and evolve towards a modern operating model.
Solution
The team from Maruti Techlabs conducted a detailed SWOT analysis of the existing system.
The migration was planned in a phase-wise manner to ensure seamless execution. The migration solution proposed by Maruti Techlabs was based on proven technology that could be easily deployed quickly and without incurring high costs. The migration was smoother and quicker than anticipated.
- From application analysis to migration planning, Maruti Techlabs experts took a methodical approach tailor-made for the client’s infrastructure.
- To ensure operational stability, we used Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to generate service components facilitating programmable infrastructure.
- Managed services were set up that can be easily expanded on-demand in the future.
- DNS was moved to one of the managed services provided by AWS.
- Maruti Techlabs worked on designing the cloud ecosystem management platform along with the operating model for the smooth adoption of managed services at an organizational level.
Step into the modern digital landscape with secure cloud migration.
Technology Stack
Our Development Process
We follow Agile, Lean, & DevOps best practices to create a superior prototype that brings your users’ ideas to fruition through collaboration & rapid execution. Our top priority is quick reaction time & accessibility.
We really want to be your extended team, so apart from the regular meetings, you can be sure that each of our team members is one phone call, email, or message away.
A big part of DevOps consulting and implementation is the synergic effect of the continuous involvement of various stakeholders. Experience a workload shift with reliable, high-quality software applications and services that also support automation.
