Yokohama Tire’s AWS Migration

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 |
Our Migration Approach
- 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.
- Automation‑First Landing Zone – Terraform and Ansible established networking, IAM guardrails, and patch orchestration—practices IDC flags as critical to large‑scale cloud success.
- Wave‑Based Workload Moves – Low‑risk dev workloads migrated first via AWS Application Migration Service, followed by SQL Server and SAP test systems.
- 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 .
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“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