Afo-Solutions
Migrating 10TB of Marketing Intelligence
A Foundation for Data-Driven Excellence
Project Overview
Transforming a legacy on-premises environment into a high-performance, automated AWS ecosystem using Infrastructure as Code.
Afo-Solutions is a premier marketing automation and data analysis firm that empowers clients to achieve superior marketing outcomes through deep analytical insights. Since its inception in 2005, the company has built a reputation for innovation and flexibility, serving well-known brands across Switzerland. Facing limitations with their on-premises IT environment, Afo-Solutions partnered with copebit to migrate their entire stack, including business-critical applications, databases, and servers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.
The project began with intensive joint discovery workshops to document all technical requirements, with a particular focus on scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery. The resulting architecture was built strictly according to AWS Well-Architected principles. Using CloudFormation, copebit modeled the entire infrastructure as code, ensuring perfect documentation and repeatability from day one. The technical solution leverages a "Managed Services First" approach, utilizing EC2, RDS Aurora, Lambda, FSx, and Managed Active Directory. A significant challenge was the secure migration of over 10 terabytes of data, which was successfully moved over the public internet via highly secure VPN connections and rigorous verification rounds.
5:27 PMClaude responded: "copebit managed the entire project including architecture, migration planning, design, and the actual migration for AFO Marketing."copebit managed the entire project including architecture, migration planning, design, and the actual migration for AFO Marketing. From first contact through to the transition to AWS, the project was delivered professionally, to a high standard, on time, and within budget. Their flexible approach to questions and challenges demonstrated that copebit works in a very customer-oriented manner. Even now, after the project is complete, copebit is always there for us and provides support with short response times. We chose the right partner and are very satisfied with the result."
As a result, Afo-Solutions has eliminated the burden of hardware maintenance. Their applications and databases now benefit from drastically lowered RPO and RTO factors. Automation of "Day-2" operations, such as security patching and backups, allows the team to focus entirely on data science innovation. Furthermore, the shift to an OPEX model has simplified financial planning and increased business agility.