Case Study: MAGFest achieves scalable, cost-efficient AWS migration with Adaptavist

MAGFest cuts infrastructure costs by 50% with Adaptavist

Adaptavist helped MAGFest, a non-profit music and gaming festival, overcome a critical lack of IT resources and scalability challenges. Their primary issue was an overloaded developer struggling to manage a monolithic application on DigitalOcean, which could not handle the sudden, massive demand when festival tickets went on sale, risking customer frustration and PR issues.

Adaptavist's solution involved containerizing the monolithic application and migrating the entire infrastructure to AWS native services, including ECS, RDS, and ElastiCache. The results were highly successful, yielding a 50% cost reduction and significantly improved scalability to handle peak ticket sales. The project also increased developer productivity, made the software more accessible for volunteers, and allowed for more frequent and dynamic system updates.

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