Infrastructure Strategy and Optimisation

Background

Starfish Customer is an AI based risk platform. Their platform runs on AWS, and they engaged Starfish to help define their medium and long-term infrastructure strategy.

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Project Objectives

Make a recommended on maintaining AWS, migrating to GCP, or migrating to on premise data centre.

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Methodology

• Discovery: Fully understand the current environment and the Customer’s long term requirements.

• Target Architecture: Develop a high-level target architecture based on the requirements.

• Migration Strategy: Propose a migration strategy for each option that minimised platform risk.

• Create Model: Create a financial model and risk model based on the Target Architecture and Migration Strategy.

• Recommendation: Compare the models to make a final recommendation to the Customer.  

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Outcome

The Customer used the engagement to set their five-year infrastructure strategy by maintaining expanding their AWS environment but renegotiating costs.

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