Appetize called Taos when they needed to meet a Tight Deadline Migrating their Applications to Amazon Web Services.

Summary

Appetize is a modern point-of-sale software company delivering solutions to the largest and highest volume clients around the globe in retail, food service, entertainment, leisure, and education. Appetize selected Taos to assist in its cloud migration to AWS, as well as its CI/CD automation and re-platforming to cloud-native services.

Solution

When Appetize engaged Taos, they were in the process of migrating from a managed hosting environment into AWS. A subset of the applications had been moved, however there was still a significant number left to migrate. Appetize had a hard deadline for exiting their co-location facility and assistance was needed to meet that deadline. Additionally, the legacy environment had little automation or configuration management in place, and management tasks were manual and time intensive. While Appetize had OpsWorks in place, they were unable to quickly and automatically scale infrastructure based upon rapid demand and peak loads during a very active sports season. Appetize also faced a shortage of employees that could support both the legacy on-premises environment and the new AWS cloud environment. The legacy environment required a significant amount of maintenance, and this was slowing the migration into AWS.