Case Study: Migration of popular news sites to Cloud with Zero Downtime

The customer, The Indian Express (www.indianexpress.com) is one of the India’s most popular news media house having more than 12 news publications in multiple languages. Some of their group sites like Kannada Prabha (www.kannadaprabha.com) and Samakalikamalayam (www.samakalikamalayalam.com) are leaders in their category and region. The combined traffic of all sites averages more than a million hits in a day and reaches higher levels on specific events and occasions.

• Short-Notice : Migrate to cloud in less than 4 weeks due to abrupt termination of services by the incumbent on-prem vendor.
• Zero downtime : Most of the sites are “top-in-category” sites and cannot afford cut-off time.
• Complex Environment : Each site had different tech stack with links to 3rd party services and systems.

Given the challenges around the time duration available for the migration and the nature of the business where there was no downtime window to cut over to new infra, we adopted a 2-step migration approach to seamlessly migrate all the site to AWS.

In the first step, designed and provisioned a like-for-like infra on AWS as it was on the OnPrem and migrated all the sites. In the next step, after few weeks of operation, enabled additional security postures including WAF and optimized the infra design by right sizing for better performance at optimal cost.

We have enabled a smooth start to the  cloud transformation journey of the client and helped them realize key cloud values of agility, effective cost control  and security. We see this as the start of a fruitful partnership and we look forward to serve them more with our managed services in the near future for a smooth cloud adoption and support their future business growth.

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