Department of IT Manipur Data centre Migration to AWS Cloud One of the biggest problem the State data centre of manipur had was scalability. We’re here to bring some light into the use case of state data centre migrations in to AWS cloud. The Department of IT, Manipur State Data Centre (SDC) is an entity under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) planned to consolidate services, applications and infrastructure to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C and G2B services. It is act as a central repository of all data and applications/websites for the entire Government of Manipur. Consolidation of critical websites in to cloud Immediate scaling of few applications with no capex Software &Hardware Legacy applications were running on outdated hardware that wasn’t delivering the performance required. Operational Expenditure Operational expenses needed to be reduced, including hardware maintenance costs. Infrastructure Agility Government to Citizen applications needed more agility on the infrastructure as traffic will be agile based on schemes Multiple IT Vendors The company had multiple vendors and support contracts resulting in significant management overhead costs The Business Challenge & Mess-ups An Digital India Initiative of Department of IT, Manipur minfytech.com Challenge Solution How to handle invariable Spikes ? Minfy lifted & shifted the 16 critical G2G, G2C and G2B applications to AWS seamlessly, paying special attention to maximizing uptimeand ensuring business continuity for all core websites of DIT. They reduced capital and operational costs by avoiding new hardware purchases and redeploying IT staff to projects that directly supported the core business. Minfy started the cloud adoption journey of Department of IT Manipur with a complete study of their existing IT infrastructure and costs,including recommendations and a detailed migration plan With a detailed plan in place, Minfy worked with DIT,Manipur to migrate their applications to AWS , including the 16 critical G2G, G2C and G2B applications,For scalable compute and storage capability, • Minfy has deployed a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS with Amazon EC2 and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS ) • AWS Cloud front leveraged for achieving reduced latency & ensuring the contents are loaded • AWS WAF for improved security,DIT,Manipur’s network architecture on AWS also included a site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN)between AWS and Manipur State Data center enabling access to AWS Cloud • As few of the DBs still run in their on premise DC through a NAT VPC synced the respective DB to the end applications which is launched in a public subnet which also houses instances which is running 11 websites . • Multi AZ RDS deployment had replaced MySQL DB for six applications with synchronous replications for enhanced availability& durability Elastic Load balancer configured between cross zone between two availability zones making the architecture highly available. • Autoscaling enabled for the instances launched in the private sub net which houses the application servers Using AWS Cloud watch monitoring enabled for proactive monitoring with alarms configured for CPU utilisation, Memory, Disk Space etc. Process The Benefits The Bottom Line Migrated to cloud with ease ! • Ability to start and stop non-production services on-demand to reduce operational costs • Ability to run legacy applications independent of hardwareor operating system restrictions by utilizing Amazon Machine Images (AMI) • Ability to consolidate critical G2G, G2C and G2B applications to AWS with no business interruptions by leveraging the centralized AWS computing platform Where to get help? [email protected] About Minfy MinfyTM born in the cloud firm, is committed to helping enterprises with its impeccable IT solutions in the cloud Era, We help the organisations to move forward in the digital world by changing the way they use IT. We are committed to delivering today’s best-of-breed cloud solutions to the organisations, we pioneered ourselves on SAP on cloud, Next-Gen Managed Services, Dev- ops, CI& CD & Micro-services. +91-86888 18765 Services leveraged in AWS