CRDMS App Migration on AWS Cloud for Global Machinery and Industrial Product Manufacturer

Executive Summary

LTM has been engaged with clients for the cloud migration of their entire CRDMS application, leveraging AWS platform services. LTM provided a high availability and fault-tolerant hybrid solution, which was cost-effective compared to traditional on-premises server hosting. The solution enabled easy access to the document management system by providing data and application security. This accelerated cloud migration and deployment, enabled through process optimization and scalability.

Client

The client is a US-based global manufacturer of lifting and material handling solutions for various industries, including construction, infrastructure, quarrying, recycling, energy, mining, shipping, transportation, refining, and utilities. The company's major business segments include aerial work platforms, construction, cranes, material handling and port solutions, and materials processing.

Challenges

Being a Document Management System, it needs a largely reliable, highly available, and durable file store and easy ways to access applications and file servers

• Large database and file storage migration(2TB)
• Cheap SMTP for email exchange
• Data and application security
• Lower infrastructure cost

LTM Solution

• Extremely cost-effective compared to the traditional on-premises server hosting
• It uses EC2 cluster with Elastic Load balancing and Managed DB cluster
• AWS S3 is used to store 2 TB data size. Data Migration has been done using AWS APIs and DMS services
• Built-in high availability and fault tolerance
• VPN tunneling from client’s data center to AWS makes it a Hybrid solution

Business Benefits

• It significantly helped in reducing overall operation costs and overheads
• Technology enabled process optimization and scalability