Success Story
Netwey migrates all of its critical infrastructure on AWS, cuts database costs by 37% and does it without interruptions
At a glance
Netwey is a Mexican telecommunications company that offers prepaid home internet. It needed to move its critical infrastructure to production AWS accounts without interrupting operations and with no disaster recovery plan. Craftech migrated its databases and 10 critical servers, decoupled the analytical workload and formalized business continuity. Database infrastructure costs dropped by 37%.
37%
lower database infrastructure costs: from ~USD 2,790 to ~USD 1,745/month
10
critical servers migrated (3 originally planned)
Netwey is a Mexican telecommunications company that offers prepaid home internet, with around 360 employees.
Solution implemented
- 2 Amazon Aurora MySQL instances migrated to production accounts on AWS Graviton, with a rightsizing proposal
- 10 EC2 instances migrated
- Data lakehouse with CDC on Amazon S3, AWS Glue and Amazon Athena to decouple QuickSight from the transactional engine
- Grafana, Prometheus and Alloy on a critical instance, integrated into the SleakOps stack, with a runbook to scale it to the rest
- Reconfigured Site-to-Site VPN and migration of AWS Transfer Family (SFTP)
- Well-Architected Framework assessment and a DRP strategy with validated backups
- Training for Netwey's team
Business Challenge
Netwey needed to move its critical infrastructure (databases, application servers and SFTP services) to production AWS accounts without interrupting operations. It had no disaster recovery plan and no visibility into its systems, and analytical queries from Amazon QuickSight were hurting the performance of the transactional database. The scope also grew during the project: the 3 servers originally planned became 10.
Solution
Craftech migrated the databases and 10 critical servers to production accounts with new-generation processors, in parallel with the migration to Kubernetes carried out with SleakOps. It moved 2 Amazon Aurora MySQL instances to AWS Graviton, with a rightsizing proposal, and migrated 10 EC2 instances. To separate the analytical workload, it built a data lakehouse with CDC on Amazon S3, AWS Glue and Amazon Athena, which decouples QuickSight from the transactional engine. It implemented proactive monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus and Alloy on a critical instance, integrated into the SleakOps stack and with a runbook to scale it to the rest. It reconfigured the Site-to-Site VPN, migrated AWS Transfer Family (SFTP), ran a Well-Architected Framework assessment and defined a DRP strategy with validated backups. Netwey's team was trained along the way.
Outcomes
- 37% lower database infrastructure costs: from ~USD 2,790 to ~USD 1,745/month (USD 1,045/month in projected savings with rightsizing)
- 10 critical servers migrated (3 originally planned)
- Decoupled analytical workload: lower latency in the transactional application
- Documented DRP and validated backups
- Proactive monitoring on a critical instance, with a runbook to scale it
- Well-Architected assessment completed
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