Enterprise Migration to Amazon OpenSearch

Global Financial Services Company

CHALLENGE

• Client’s text searching / IT logging and monitoring capabilities needed to be in regulatory compliance
• Existing provider’s (Elastic Search) capabilities and roadmap posed concern and risk. Client needed support migrating from existing provider to new provider (Amazon OpenSearch)

SOLUTION

• Led multi-function team in deploying full AWS OpenSearch functionality
• Designed, built, and deployed architecture with Kaizen Agile process
• Integrated critical application to the Amazon OpenSearch Service
• Migrated the existing Kabana dashboards to Amazon OpenSearch dashboards

RESULTS

• Delivered fully-integrated Amazon OpenSearch solution in 11 weeks
• Successfully created the integration with key enterprise applications, with the ability to efficiently aggregate, observe, visualize, analyze, and report on logs
• Patched the distributions to comply with the overall enterprise security standards
• 15-18% IT Log-Analytic Cost Reduction + IT Risk Mitigation