Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n Services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n Application and DB Migration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Partner<\/strong><\/p>\n AWS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Meet Our Customer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Founded in 2007, Foundant Technologies<\/a> is a leading cloud-based Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) software developer based in Bozeman, Montana. Foundant provides practical, user-aligned cloud technology and expertise for funders and grant seekers who want to free up time to focus on their missions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> When Foundant Technologies approached NorthBay Solutions<\/a>, the company was at a crossroads. While there was massive opportunity \u2013 and demand \u2013 for their innovative GrantMaker Lifecycle Manager (GLM) and Scholarship Lifecycle Manager (SLM) applications for the nonprofit sector, their technology infrastructure was holding them back. They needed help developing an application modernization strategy that would involve application modernization<\/a> and Rackspace to AWS migration<\/a> in order to take advantage of the unparalleled scalability and high reliability. They needed a partner who could provide AWS managed services, as well as AWS security<\/a> best practices.<\/p>\n However, the vendor that Foundant had chosen to take on the AWS database migration service<\/a> required a minimum of two weeks to make any hardware or configuration changes, and Foundant<\/a> did not have the bandwidth internally to take on the migration. What Founded needed was an AWS managed services provider<\/a> that could move quickly. Thus, they reached out to NorthBay Solutions in July 2020, and shared that they needed to be up and running on AWS by September. Moreover, they needed to know that moving forward, application modernization services<\/a> could be done on the fly.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Foundant\u2019s vision for their system is simple: Scale from hundreds of clients to thousands of clients in order to help make philanthropy easier for as many organizations as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div> Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Foundant had a 14-year-old .NET based architecture which Amazon ECS<\/a> did not support. It presented a significant, if not insurmountable challenge. Even the team at AWS had no experience with making a legacy .NET framework run in modern containers.<\/p>\n Never one to back away from a challenge, and well-known throughout the industry as a leader in Amazon ECS best practices, the NorthBay Solutions team found a way to reconfigure the Windows environment so that Foundant applications would work in a containerized environment. Next, the team set out to migrate and port the .NET application itself and the packages associated with it to Amazon ECS using the .NET migrator \u2013 something that nobody at AWS had ever seen done before. NorthBay Solutions<\/a> utilized a Windows-EC2 based ECS, along with CodePipeline Custom Action & SSM Document to build the .NET code, as well as to create and push Docker images.<\/p>\n<\/div> AWS Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>![\"Application](\"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-george-morina-4960464-1.jpg\" "\\"Application")
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