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Sep 15 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Lessons Learned

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: What the project proved about the system and what should carry forward into the next build.

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Sep 2 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Conclusion

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: What shipped, what changed operationally, and what still needed to be watched after delivery.

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Aug 20 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Build Process 4

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: The final build step before the system was ready to ship and operate.

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Aug 6 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Build Process 3

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: How the implementation kept moving without adding avoidable complexity.

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Jul 24 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Build Process 2

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: The next build step, with the constraint that shaped the design.

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Jul 11 2021 4 min read

Cloud Infrastructure Migration (AWS → DigitalOcean): Build Process 1

Migrated the full production environment off AWS onto DigitalOcean in a one-week window between sales cycles — 30+ services, five platforms, ~4TB of data — and cut infrastructure cost roughly in half: The first implementation step and the tradeoff that made it worth shipping.

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