Digital Dinghy at Work

Case Study: SME Manufacturing Client

  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Scope: Move legacy on-prem ERP/MES to the cloud
  • Duration: 9 months (Jan - Sep 2025)

    • "Digital Dinghy turned a multi-year on-prem upgrade into a 9 month, low-risk transformation. We now launch new product lines in weeks, not months, and enjoy predictable subscription style spend.” - Laura Martinez, CIO"

    Digital Dinghy migrated the ERP/MES to AWS in nine months, cutting IT spend by half, boosting availability to 99.8%, slashing DR recovery to 4 hours, and reducing storage costs by 90%. The structured, automation first approach delivered measurable business value and positioned Acme for future cloud native innovation.

    Migration Phases & Key Actions
    Phase (Months) Key Actions Cloud Services Used
    Assessment (1) Dependency mapping, TCO analysis, compliance gap assessment AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate (multi-cloud view)
    Pilot (2-3) Move non-critical reporting server; test DB copy EC2, RDS, DMS, CloudWatch
    Core Migration (4-7) Rearchitect ERP to Amazon Aurora; containerize MES on ECS/Fargate; Direct Connect link Aurora, ECS/Fargate, Direct Connect, S3, Backup Vault
    Data & DR (8) Move 12TB to S3 Glacier Deep Archive; cross-region backup for 4 hour RPO/RTO S3 Glacier Deep Archive, AWS Backup, Route 53 health checks
    Enablement (9) 3-day cloud ops bootcamp; cost-optimisation dashboards Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
    Key Metrics - Before vs. After Migration
    Metric Before Migration After Migration Change
    IT OPEX $420k/yr $210k/yr -50%
    System Availability 96.2% 99.8% +3.6pp
    Disaster Recovery RTO 48h 4h -92%
    Time to Provision New Envs 2-3 weeks <1 hour -99%
    Developer Productivity (-time) 12% of sprint time 4% of sprint time -8pp
    Data Storage Cost (12TB) $45k/yr $5k/yr -89%
    automation

    Automation

    Used AWS CloudFormation templates to spin up identical environments (dev, test, prod) in under 30 minutes.

    security

    Security

    Adopted IAM least-privilege policies, enabled AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub for continuous monitoring.

    performance

    Performance

    Leveraged Aurora Serverless v2 for autoscaling during order spike periods, eliminating previous CPU bound bottlenecks.

    goverance

    Governance

    Integrated AWS Config rules to enforce tagging, encryption, and region restriction policies, satisfying ISO 27001 audit requirements.

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