From a 2-Day Outage to a 4-Week AWS Migration: How Metabolic Maintenance Used Platformr to Cut Costs and Improve Reliability
A B2C nutrition brand moving off an unreliable on-premises setup
Metabolic Maintenance, a division of Allergy Research Group, is a wellness brand known for producing professional nutritional products and practitioner supplements. After a 2-day downtime event in its on-premises environment, the company decided to migrate to AWS to improve reliability and adopt best practices.
Enterprise-grade requirements, no in-house AWS expertise
Metabolic Maintenance had no in-house AWS expert and did not want to hire a full-time resource. Initially, this left hiring a consultant as their only option, with SOWs ranging from $60k-90k and an estimated migration timeline of 3-4 months. The company also did not have the expertise to manage and monitor its service post-migration.
No in-house AWS expertise
Metabolic Maintenance had no in-house AWS expert and did not want to hire a full-time resource, leaving hiring a consultant as the only option — with SOWs ranging from $60k-90k and an estimated migration timeline of 3-4 months.
No plan to manage it after migration
Beyond the migration itself, the company did not have the expertise to manage and monitor its service post-migration.
Foundation + Workload Factory + Observability
Metabolic Maintenance hired one of the consultants but used Platformr to configure its AWS organization to reduce costs and shrink the migration scope to 4 weeks.
Foundation:
- Set up AWS landing zones according to AWS best practices
- Implemented a central networking solution (hub-spoke model) to allow for an on-prem to cloud connection
Workload Factory:
- Set up a secure connection with a VPN
- Spun up proper development, testing, production, and disaster recovery environments
- Deployed a central identity provider to make it easier to manage AWS users and contractors
Observability:
- Set up alarms and metrics to notify the company on health metrics
“When we decided it was time to move to AWS, we wanted the migration to happen as soon as possible with the least amount of disruption to our business. Platformr was the perfect tool for expediting the process. Today we’re confident that our new AWS environment meets best practices, can scale with our needs, helps us meet our uptime requirements, and makes it easy for our existing staff to maintain.”
John Walker, Director of IT — Metabolic MaintenanceFaster, more cost effective, and built to scale
$25K saved in professional services fees
Using Platformr to configure the AWS organization reduced the cost of the migration engagement.
Migration timeline cut from 4 months to 4 weeks
What was originally estimated at 3-4 months with a consultant alone was shrunk to a 4-week migration scope using Platformr.
$2,500/month saved on environment management
Metabolic Maintenance saved $2,500/month previously spent on managing and monitoring the environment.