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Moving from Azure to Google Cloud
Moving a security company's platform from Azure to Google Cloud. Afterwards, cloud costs were 30% lower.
- Client
- Security company
- Service
- Cloud consulting and migration
- Year
- 2024
Project completed
Starting point
The platform had been running on Azure for years. Along the way, services and resources were added that nobody used anymore but that still cost money. The platform had to keep running without interruption during the move.
Approach
The first step was a list of everything running on Azure and a check of what was actually needed. The new Google Cloud environment is described entirely in Terraform, and deployments run through Argo CD. Both environments ran in parallel for a while. The switch-over happened only once everything had been tested on Google Cloud.
What was delivered
Inventory
Every service checked. Anything no longer needed stayed behind.
New environment
A leaner architecture on Google Cloud, designed for low running costs.
Terraform
The whole infrastructure as code, versioned and rebuildable at any time.
Argo CD
Deployments straight from Git, with easy rollback to an earlier version.
Parallel operation
Both environments ran side by side until the switch was safe.
Removing the old setup
The Azure resources were fully removed, so there are no double costs.
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