Real-estate platform cloud migration
Dubai-Based Real Estate CompanyLegacy on-premises infrastructure was unable to handle the increasing traffic volume from property listings, virtual tours, and customer inquiries. The company experienced frequent downtime during peak viewing hours, slow loading times for high-resolution property images, and inability to scale during marketing campaigns. Their existing setup was costing 40% more than market standards and lacked disaster recovery capabilities.
Complete migration to AWS cloud infrastructure with auto-scaling EC2 instances, CloudFront CDN for global content delivery, S3 for property media storage, and RDS for database management. Implemented containerized microservices architecture using Kubernetes for better scalability and implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems.
- 99.8% uptime maintained through peak viewing hours
- −25% infrastructure operating cost post-migration
- Image and media delivery shifted to CloudFront — measurably faster page loads
- Auto-scaling capacity headroom for campaign-driven traffic spikes
- Disaster recovery with 15-minute RTO — previously non-existent