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Diwesh Saxena
60% ↑ scalability; zero downtime

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration: 60% scalability boost

CTO / ArchitectEnterprise systems2019–2021

Lift-and-optimize migration to AWS/Azure with autoscaling, IaC, and observability—delivered as a no-downtime cutover.

Technology Stack

AWSAzureKubernetesTerraformGrafana

Key Outcomes

  • 60% improvement in scalability (resume claim)
  • Zero-downtime cutover to AWS (resume claim)
  • Lower infra cost with autoscaling and right-sizing

Context

A set of business-critical systems needed capacity headroom, reliability, and cost control—without an outage window.

Approach

  • Blueprint & risk log (dependencies, data gravity, RTO/RPO).
  • IaC with Terraform; progressive cutover via blue-green + DNS.
  • Observability first: SLIs/SLOs, golden signals, error budgets.
  • Perf & cost: autoscaling, right-sizing, storage tiers.

Results

  • 60% ↑ scalability; zero downtime migration; lower monthly spend.
  • Faster incident resolution with dashboards and alerts.

Lessons

  • "Measure before move": bake in observability before flipping traffic.
  • Progressive cutover beats big-bang.

CTA

Planning a migration? I can blueprint RTO/RPO and a no-drama cutover. Book a 30-min call.

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