A challenge when it comes to operations has been the uneven server load during the day. A challenge that has proved to be costly.
“At night our measured values are exported, and the servers are working full time. During the daytime, the load decreases, and we are forced to pay for overcapacity”, explains Mattias Sjöberg.
A different challenge has been that the system actually consists of multiple systems on different servers and databases. Troubleshooting can take a long time. Manual routines are required when a server is down, which risks unwanted malfunctions.
“We want to increase the accessibility and tie the operation closer to us so that we can act quicker. We also want to scale up and down the system based on our dataflows. We see an opportunity to achieve this through a cloud service and that’s why we are investing in AWS.”