Case Study: Metabolic Maintenance

“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
THE CHALLENGE

Increasing reliability with an accelerated migration to AWS

After a 2-day downtime event in its on-premises environment, Metabolic Maintenance decided to migrate to AWS to improve reliability and adopt best practices. However, the company 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.

Metabolic hired one of the consultants but used Platformr to configure its AWS Organization to reduce costs and shrink the migration scope to 4 weeks.


Company Profile

  • B2C ecommerce website
  • Professional Nutritional Products and Practitioner Supplements


Goals

✔ Migrate to AWS
✔ Increase reliability
✔ Improve development process
✔ Manage and monitor cloud health

Solution

Platformr Foundation:

  • Set up an AWS Landing Zone to include AWS Control Tower, service control policies (SCPs), AWS Organizational Units, centralized logging, and centralized security with AWS Security Hub
  • Implemented central networking solution (hub-spoke model) to allow for an on-prem to cloud connection with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Route tables, VPC endpoints and a client VPN connection
  • Deployed and configured AWS IAM Identity Center to make it easier to manage AWS users and contractors
  • Set up tags for cost reporting
  • Set up backup and availability based on business requirements

Workload Factory:

  • Set up a secure connection with a VPN
  • Created separate development environments (Development, Testing, Staging, Production)
  • Established a Disaster Recovery environment to meet customer requirements

Observability:

  • Set up alarms to notify company on health metrics using Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNSs

Results

✔ Saved $25k in professional services fees
✔ Reduced migration timeline from 4 months to 4 weeks
✔ Saved $2500/month by replacing a support team to manage and monitor the environment

AWS Services
  • AWS Control Tower
  • AWS Backup
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Amazon AppStream 2.0 
  • AWS IAM Identity Center
  • AWS Config
  • AWS Security Hub
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
  • AWS DataSync
  • Amazon GuardDuty
  • Amazon Route 53
  • AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)
  • Amazon VPC
  • AWS VPN
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)