Lightstream’s Professional Services team supports the company in boosting revenue potential by entering a new market.
• When the company’s largest hotel group client requested its services at three new properties in China, the software company recognized the tremendous opportunity for growth and sprang into action.
• Existing deployment was slow. Latency and other connectivity issues caused by the Great Firewall of China.
• The China Regions are separate from all other AWS regions and normal integrations do not work .
• There was very little institutional knowledge of the existing application
• Custom scripts to copy existing Ubuntu images and transform them due to Marketplace issues
• Custom scripts to move to China and rehydrate
• In all, 27 steps were automated to move each instance
• DMS was used to migrate the MySQL database from RDS to RDS
• The environment is using native AWS services, ALB, S3, EC2, RDS, SSM
• After user testing, the environment was right sized saving customer 50% on monthly spend
• Custom scripts were created for Blue/Green deployments of code updates