AWS Cloud Migration of a Leading American Medical Equipment Manufacturer

Client

The client is a California-based medical equipment company that provides cloud-connectable medical devices for treating respiratory diseases. During the pandemic, they produced over 150,000 ventilators and bilevel devices to help treat patients’ respiratory symptoms. They have 7,500 employees in 140+ countries with manufacturing facilities in Australia, Singapore, France, and the USA.

Challenges

• To provide a digital platform to its customers and automate operational design, the client was looking for an AWS expert to migrate its six global Data Centers (DC) to the cloud.
• Their first DC in Australia was nearing its end of life, and its ~500 servers (comprising of Windows OS and off-the-shelf products) had to be urgently migrated.

LTM Solution

To resolve the end-of-life and other licensing challenges, we migrated using the lift-and-shift approach, following best practices per the Well-Architected Review Framework.

• Leveraged the AWS landing zone framework with multiple accounts for shared services, security, and logging. Handled automated environment deployments via cloud formation templates.
• LTM, with the help of proprietary tools like Rapidadopt and Infinity, came up with an uplift migration strategy. It included the lift-and-shift approach but with optimization on right-sized architectures and the AWS Well-Architected Framework around security, performance, cost, operations, and reliability.
• Solution included a high availability, secure 3-tier AWS architecture deployed on a multi-availability zone using CloudEnsure (a cloud governance platform), and an audit manager to integrate and deploy the Well-Architected Review Framework from day one

Business Benefits

• Achieved 30% reduction in costs by right-sizing operations.
• Improved operational efficiency by recommending native monitoring and security tools for easier platform management.
• Ensured secure, reliable, and scalable access by leveraging managed tools like App Stream as a client desktop solution.