Project Info
Client
A Regional Logistics Company
Service
Managed Cloud & Infrastructure
Industry
Logistics & Distribution
Stack
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
Challenge
This is a representative example of the kind of engagement we take on: a growing company running its order-tracking platform on a single aging on-prem server, with no failover, an undocumented backup process, and a cloud migration attempt that had stalled twice already. Every deploy carried real risk, and nobody on staff could say with confidence what would happen if that server failed.
Our Approach
We started with a full infrastructure audit, then moved the environment to AWS in staged phases — never touching production until each piece was validated in a parallel environment. The whole migration was defined as code from day one, so the new environment is fully reproducible and documented.
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Full infrastructure audit before any changes.
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Staged migration with rollback points.
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Infrastructure defined and version-controlled as code.
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Automated, tested daily backups.
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Zero unplanned downtime during cutover.
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24/7 monitoring enabled from go-live.
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Documentation the internal team can maintain.
The Solution
A phased migration plan built around the client's real constraints — no downtime windows they could afford to lose, and a small internal team who'd need to maintain the environment afterward.
Parallel environment built and validated before cutover
DNS cutover scheduled during their lowest-traffic window
Rollback plan tested and ready before go-live
Internal team trained on the new environment before handoff
The Outcome
The client moved off a single point of failure onto infrastructure they could actually reason about — with documentation and monitoring their own team could maintain going forward.
Cutover completed with no unplanned downtime
Automated failover replacing a single point of failure
Full infrastructure documentation the internal team owns
24/7 monitoring catching issues before they became outages
Key Takeaways
Most infrastructure migrations fail from rushing the cutover, not from picking the wrong cloud provider. The slow, staged approach below is what actually keeps a business running through the transition.
Audit Before You Migrate
Understanding what's actually running — and why — before touching anything prevents the surprises that turn migrations into outages.
Validate in Parallel
The new environment runs alongside the old one until it's proven, so cutover is a formality, not a gamble.
Leave Behind Documentation
A migration isn't finished until the client's own team can operate and troubleshoot the new environment without us.