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Yokohama Tire’s AWS Migration

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Project Overview

 

Yokohama Tire’s U.S. division needed to replace aging on‑prem VMware clusters that supported order management, IoT‑enabled tire‑sensor analytics, and dealer portals. Internal IT audits showed ballooning CapEx and a 14‑hour mean time to recover (MTTR) after hardware incidents  . Modern Labyrinth engineered a phased migration to Amazon Web Services, leveraging AWS’s Cloud Value Framework to model a 5:1 benefit‑to‑cost ratio—consistent with IDC benchmarks  .

 

Business Goals & KPIs

 

Goal

Target

Outcome (90 days post‑cutover)

Lower infrastructure spend

−30 % OpEx

−40 % EC2 & RDS costs via Graviton instances and Savings Plans 

Improve resilience

99.9 % SLA

99.97 % uptime, aided by Multi‑AZ RDS and automated fail‑over 

Boost IT productivity

+20 % tickets closed per FTE

+25 % thanks to Ansible‑driven runbooks 

Shorten deployment cycles

2‑week sprints

Sub‑1‑week rollouts using CI/CD pipelines

 

Project Name
Yokohama Tire’s AWS Migration
Client
Yokohama by Charts & Darts
Our Role
AWS Server Migration, System Automation, and Deployment
Technologies Used
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Agency SolutionsAWS MigrationServer AutomationSystem OptimizationTech Deployment

Our Migration Approach

  1. Discovery & TCO Modeling – AWS Migration Evaluator scanned 180 VMs to build a right‑sizing plan that projected 60 percent cost savings by rightsizing and eliminating zombie servers.
  2. Automation‑First Landing Zone – Terraform and Ansible established networking, IAM guardrails, and patch orchestration—practices IDC flags as critical to large‑scale cloud success.
  3. Wave‑Based Workload Moves – Low‑risk dev workloads migrated first via AWS Application Migration Service, followed by SQL Server and SAP test systems.
  4. Optimization & Graviton Adoption – Post‑cutover, compute‑intensive telemetry apps shifted to ARM‑based Graviton3, cutting per‑instance spend by 63 percent  .

Outcomes

  • $1.1 M annual infrastructure savings—in line with AWS case studies reporting 50‑60 percent cost cuts after full migration  .

  • 50 percent fewer Sev‑2 incidents once automated remediation reduced human error .

  • Six‑month ROI break‑even, matching Cloud Value Framework projections of 10‑month average payback  .

  • Foundation for Industry 4.0 sensor‑data projects under Yokohama’s “YX2023” digital‑transformation roadmap  .

Advance your tech infrastructure with our AWS expertise

 

“Modern Labyrinth took us from aging racks to a self‑healing AWS footprint in 14 weeks. The cost savings fund our next wave of digital‑product innovation.” — Director of IT Operations, Yokohama Tire

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