Challenge
Meazure Learning, the leading provider of online testing solutions for higher education and professional credentialing organizations, delivers industry-leading technology and personalized service backed by extensive infrastructure to their end users. With their recent acquisition of Scantron, an application stack hosted across two on-prem data centers was added to their environment. Adding to the challenge, the facility leases for these data centers were about to expire and a full migration of their infrastructure was required in a very short timeframe to avoid expensive lease penalties and potential data loss. Any outages that would be required for a migration needed to take place very quickly and full production operations would need to be resumed immediately.
Solution
Infinitive migrated an entire application infrastructure into AWS by:
- Conducting thorough assessments on AWS migration tool options and their suitability for a variety of production workloads from bare-metal MSSQL server and Oracle DB to VMware VM instances
- Implementing terraform-powered AWS Landing Zone to afford the client a best-practice AWS environment from the start
- Configuring the client’s Landing Zone to maintain the original private IP address schema to minimize time consuming reconfigurations of the environment
- Developing cloud-native solutions for active directory and production database clusters by utilizing AWS Managed Directory and SQL Server optimized AMI instances
- Deploying AWS FSx for MSSQL and Oracle database backups for all environments
Outcome
In 60 days, Infinitive successfully migrated 100 virtual machines across four environments into the AWS cloud that:
- Provided a modern, highly available, scalable, and fully automated application infrastructure
- Reduced costs significantly by implementing a cloud-native workload
- Modernized applications and optimized ability to scale
- Implemented security best practices through identity and access management (IAM), multi-factor authentication, and S3 buckets
- Provided Meazure Learning with a clear path forward for continuing to refactor their workloads into cloud optimized managed services to further reduce costs and improve operational resiliency
