Slashing cloud costs by 35% with a migration to Akamai cloud

An 8-week migration to Akamai Connected Cloud from AWS, followed by ongoing Managed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Services, resulted in $138,000 annual savings and 99.99% uptime.

Our client is a premier financial technology firm that leverages AI to analyze market patterns and provide innovative trading opportunities in real-time. As their AI-powered platform grew, their existing AWS-based infrastructure became increasingly inefficient, marked by spiraling operational costs and mounting technical debt that threatened their ability to scale.

The Problem: Spiraling costs and technical debt

The Client faced several critical challenges with their legacy cloud setup that hindered both profitability and operational agility:

Escalating expenditures: Monthly AWS expenditures had climbed to $30,000, creating significant pressure on margins.
Operational bottlenecks: Technical debt in configuration management and automation workflows made infrastructure updates slow and error-prone.
Manual scaling hurdles: The lack of automated scaling required heavy manual intervention to handle fluctuating user demand, often leading to resource underutilization or performance dips.
Reliability raps: Without proactive monitoring or automated incident response, the internal team was constantly "firefighting" issues rather than building new product value.

The Solution: Phased migration and managed SRE

Maxima Consulting designed and executed a two-pronged solution: a seamless, 8-week migration to Akamai Connected Cloud, followed by ongoing Managed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Services to ensure long-term performance and resilience.

1. Rapid, risk-mitigated migration

The migration was completed in three distinct phases to ensure zero disruption to live users:

Analysis & baseline: Conducted a deep-dive assessment to map interdependencies and establish performance benchmarks.
Pilot & validation: Validated migration workflows and application compatibility on the Akamai platform using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps practices.
Full scale move: Successfully transitioned applications and databases to Akamai while maintaining essential multi-cloud integrations with AWS S3 and Secrets Manager.

2. Technical modernization with Cloud Orbit

To modernize the environment, Maxima implemented automated provisioning via IaC, replacing manual setups with repeatable scripts. A comprehensive observability framework was also deployed, utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, and the Elastic Stack for real-time anomaly detection and performance tracking.

3. 24/7/365 managed SRE services

Following the migration, Maxima's SRE team took over end-to-end management of the infrastructure. This includes proactive patching, automated incident management through standardized runbooks, and continuous rightsizing of resources to prevent cost leakage.

The Result: $138,000 annual savings and 99.99% uptime

The transformation delivered immediate, quantifiable value to the client, moving their infrastructure from a cost center to a scalable strategic asset.

Before (AWS)

Monthly Infrastructure Cost - $30,000
Uptime Guarantee - N/A (Reactive)
Technical Debt - High (Manual)

After (Akamai + Maxima)

Monthly Infrastructure Cost - $18,700 (35% Savings)
Annual Operational Savings - $138,000
Uptime Guarantee - 99.99%
Technical Debt - Minimized (Automated)

By leveraging Maxima’s migration factory and Cloud Orbit platform, The Client achieved performance parity at a fraction of their previous cost, enabling them to focus 100% of their team's energy on innovation.

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