Our client, a global retirement benefits provider, acquired a company running its Advice2Pay billing and reporting system on Heroku. This setup caused integration challenges, cost and pricing issues, delays, storage limits and privacy concerns. To resolve these and align with their cloud strategy, the decision was made to migrate the application to AWS IaaS.
The Solution
The app was built in PHP, which our client didn’t support. Synechron was chosen to guide transformation and migration. We used Terraform and Jenkins to set up EC2, RDS for PostgreSQL and S3, refactored PHP for Amazon Linux, and deployed across two AWS zones using blue/green strategies. The system runs as immutable infrastructure, with AWS-native services for monitoring, backup and full security integration.
The Challenge
Our client, a global retirement benefits provider, acquired a company running its Advice2Pay billing and reporting system on Heroku. This setup caused integration challenges, cost and pricing issues, delays, storage limits and privacy concerns. To resolve these and align with their cloud strategy, the decision was made to migrate the application to AWS IaaS.
The Solution
The app was built in PHP, which our client didn’t support. Synechron was chosen to guide transformation and migration. We used Terraform and Jenkins to set up EC2, RDS for PostgreSQL and S3, refactored PHP for Amazon Linux, and deployed across two AWS zones using blue/green strategies. The system runs as immutable infrastructure, with AWS-native services for monitoring, backup and full security integration.
The Results
30% reduction in total cost of ownership
Fully automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and apps
100% adherence to security control requirements
Our Process
Our end-to-end migration process ensures high quality delivery, achieving technical and business outcomes
Discovery
Identify Heroku system issues and migration requirements.
Design
Plan AWS infrastructure using Terraform, refactor PHP code for compatibility and set up multi-zone, immutable and secure deployment.
Deliverables
A high-availability, secure AWS environment with automated deployment and compliance.
Development
Implement and deploy infrastructure, refactored app, and set up automation, monitoring, and backups.
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Our Service Offering
We offer strategy, architecture and hands-on engineering of secure, scalable, cloud landing zones and hosting platforms.
We unlock developer productivity with Infrastructure-as-Code templates and deployment pipelines with frictionless controls.
We implement preventative and detective controls for highly regulated enterprises, to ensure the security of their users, data and apps in the cloud.
We facilitate the adoption of cloud native architectures and modern infrastructure management practices for application ecosystems.
We work with customers to build agile operating models that transcend traditional silos, allowing them to extract the full value from their public cloud investments.
Our Service Offering
Cloud Platform
We offer strategy, architecture and hands-on engineering of secure, scalable, cloud landing zones and hosting platforms.
Developer Experience
We unlock developer productivity with Infrastructure-as-Code templates and deployment pipelines with frictionless controls.
Cloud & DevOps Security
We implement preventative and detective controls for highly regulated enterprises, to ensure the security of their users, data and apps in the cloud.
Application Modernization and Migration
We facilitate the adoption of cloud native architectures and modern infrastructure management practices for application ecosystems.
Enterprise Transformation
We work with customers to build agile operating models that transcend traditional silos, allowing them to extract the full value from their public cloud investments.
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