DIY Surveys is an innovative SaaS-based survey platform designed to help businesses create, distribute, and analyse surveys on a global scale. Users can use expert templates or create their own custom surveys, upload respondent lists, purchase panels, or automate their respondent data feeds for import and export delivering surveys seamlessly through SMS, email, or WhatsApp to any device.
DIY Surveys faced a new opportunity with a large enterprise customer in Singapore, but there were several challenges:
The customer required data to be stored locally within Singapore, while DIY Surveys’ data centres were based in Amsterdam and Chicago
With a rapidly growing customer base, there was pressure to optimise their infrastructure to scale effectively.
Increased costs for Microsoft licensing and VMware necessitated finding a more cost-effective, scalable solution
DIY Surveys partnered with Digital Space Cloud Centre of Excellence to implement a tailored cloud migration and modernisation strategy.
Here is how the project unfolded:
A funded cloud workshop was conducted to identify the best migration and modernisation strategies, focusing on a cost-effective and scalable cloud approach.
DIY Surveys worked collaboratively with Digital Space to develop a compelling business case for the transition to the cloud, justifying investment and partner funding.
By utilising AWS and partner resources, DIY Surveys was able to significantly reduce migration costs, making the project viable.
Within days, Digital Space built a test environment in AWS Singapore, allowing DIY Surveys to validate the solution with their team before scaling.
Following successful testing, the environment was replicated in Singapore, modernising their infrastructure with DevOps deployment
pipelines and reducing dependence on legacy systems.
Due to the successful migration of the Singapore environment, DIY Surveys took the decision to fully migrate their SaaS solution from the Amsterdam data centre to AWS, ensuring better performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
The migration and modernisation efforts provided significant benefits:
DIY Surveys successfully expanded into the Singapore market, meeting the customer’s local data requirements, and accelerating business growth.
The modernisation reduced their reliance on a traditional SQL server, lowering their infrastructure complexity.
DIY Surveys saw a reduction in Microsoft licensing fees and other infrastructure costs through AWS.
With a cloud-native approach, DIY Surveys can now scale more easily to accommodate future growth, particularly as they expand into new regions.
opportunities for cost reduction and performance improvements
