Executive Summary:
EaseMyTrip, an Indian online travel company, needed to move its applications and databases from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS without disrupting bookings. Rapyder planned and carried out the migration following industry best practices. The move was completed with minimal downtime. It delivered an 8% overall performance improvement across all applications and lower latency from the AWS Mumbai Region.
About Customer:
EaseMyTrip is an online travel company founded in 2008 and headquartered in New Delhi. It offers hotel bookings, air tickets, holiday packages, bus bookings and white-label services.
EaseMyTrip sells mainly through a B2B2C (business to business to customer) model. Travel agents use its website to book domestic airline tickets for their customers. This lets EaseMyTrip serve India’s large offline travel market.
Problem Statement:
EaseMyTrip’s applications, databases and load balancer logs ran on GCP. The company decided to migrate this environment to AWS. Travel bookings are always running, so the move had to protect day-to-day operations. EaseMyTrip also wanted a well-governed AWS environment, not a plain lift-and-shift. That meant secure user access, controlled traffic handling and clear visibility into the infrastructure.
Industry:
Others
Offering:
Migration
Business Challenges:
- Migrating live workloads without disrupting the business
- EaseMyTrip had to move its applications and databases from GCP to AWS. Any long outage would affect bookings made by customers and travel agents.
- Building a governed, multi-account cloud foundation
- EaseMyTrip needed a structured AWS environment with consistent security controls and simple, centrally managed user access.
- Past impact and baseline data: Not provided. The source doesn’t describe how governance or access worked on GCP.
- 3: Handling traffic securely and keeping operational history
- Incoming traffic had to be distributed securely across applications. Existing load balancer logs also had to be kept after the move.
Solution Implemented:
- Application and database migration Rapyder migrated EaseMyTrip’s applications and databases to the AWS Mumbai Region, which is closer to its users in India.
- Centralised user access Rapyder configured AWS SSO with Active Directory. EaseMyTrip’s users can now sign in to AWS with their existing corporate identities, which keeps access simple and centrally controlled.
- Secure traffic distribution Rapyder set up an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) with SSL termination. It also created the roles needed to distribute traffic. The ALB manages incoming requests and encrypted connections at the entry point to EaseMyTrip’s applications.
In addition, Rapyder migrated the load balancer logs from GCP to the AWS Application Load Balancer, so EaseMyTrip kept its traffic history after the move.
Technology Stack:
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPC
- Application Load Balancer
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon Athena
- AWS KMS
- AWS Config
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN
Business Benefits:
- Negligible business disruption – Applications and databases moved from GCP to AWS with minimal downtime and negligible impact on operations and saw an 8% overall performance
- Lower latency – Moving to the AWS Mumbai Region improved performance and reduced latency.
- Better infrastructure control – The AWS operating model helped EaseMyTrip manage its infrastructure better.
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Key Takeaways:
- Region choice affects user experience. – Hosting in the AWS Mumbai Region, close to EaseMyTrip’s users in India, helped cut latency.
- A cloud migration is a chance to fix governance. – Setting up a Landing Zone, central identity and security monitoring alongside the migration gives the new environment a stronger base than a plain lift-and-shift.
- Keep operational history. – Migrating load balancer logs along with workloads keeps a record of past traffic after the cutover.
Frequently Asked Questions
- 1.7TB of MSSQL and MongoDB data was securely transferred to AWS using a native log shipping mechanism.
- AWS Singapore and Mumbai, connected through a custom VPC configuration for secure network isolation.
- The pay-as-you-go pricing model, combined with Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and tools like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets, cut infrastructure costs by 30%.
- Amazon CloudWatch handles monitoring and alerting with SNS notifications, AWS CloudTrail logs activity for auditing, and custom WAF dashboards run on QuickSight and Athena.
