A UK-based FinTech providing CRM services for mortgage, lending and banking providers encountered a rare database compatibility issue after migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It needed to resolve this matter quickly to keep cloud cost management under control.
Challenge: Cloud Costs Spiral Due to Database and Monitoring Problems
However, its containerised migration to AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) didn’t initially deliver the target outcomes. Amazon Aurora had been recommended as the most appropriate relational database service to meet the client’s needs, but it was incompatible with the application.