Webnode is an international website builder that provides users with a simple, intuitive platform to create their own website. Their WYSIWYG editor and customizable templates make it easy for anyone, regardless of technical ability, to build a professional-looking website. With Webnode, you can create a website for your business, portfolio, or personal blog. They also offer a variety of tools to help you optimize your website for search engines and social media, so you can get more traffic and reach more customers.
Customer satisfaction is Webnode’s top priority, and the company works extremely hard to handle everything independently. They do all of the planning, programming, testing, and management themselves, with a provider storing the entire infrastructure in two datacenters in Prague and Brno.
Starting point
When we came into the picture Webnode already knew that they wanted to migrate to the cloud and they already had the team ready. Their vision was to migrate the whole solution to AWS because they needed:
- modernize the application
- to open up to newer technologies necessary to change the architecture
- better scaling, higher performance and better configurability
- replacement of old HW in on-prem environment
We provided the team not only with the knowledge of AWS but we also helped them to opt for the IaaC solution instead of manual configuration, which will get rid of the future production problems.
What we did
Webnode was the perfect candidate for MAP (AWS Migration Acceleration Program) so we funded these two phases of MAP (Assess and Mobilize).
In Assess phase we provided:
- total cost of ownership and approximate amount of spend in the next 3 years
- target architecture design
In Mobilize phase we:
- created new AWS account
- built Landing zone
- created a prototype of a DB solution (comparison between RDS and Aurora in terms of price, availability, durability, performance,RPO, RTO..)
- designed the whole infrastructure based on the prototype
- built monitoring based on the open-source tools (Prometheus,Grafana, Grafana Loki)
- trainings focused on DB (RDS and Aurora) and DevOps
Continues support
We provide 24×7 operations and support of the whole infrastructure and additional knowledge sharing.
What is MAP
The Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based upon AWS’s experience migrating thousands of enterprises and SMB customers to the cloud and on an outcome driven methodology.
- rapid evaluation of current workload and infrastructure
- estimation of cloud solution costs
- company readiness for cloud migration
- discovery of critical knowledge gaps
- fast prototyping and evaluation of the target solution
| BEFORE | NOW |
| ON-PREM SOLUTION |  AWS CLOUD |
| NO SPACE FOR GROWTH AND INNOVATION | LANDING ZONE |
| CLICK OPS SOLUTION IN THE WORKS THAT WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS | IAAC |
| LESS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AWS | KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER |
| INABILITY TO CONFIGURE INFRASTRUCTURE ON-PREM | ADOPTION SPEEDUP |
| MAP |
