Case Study: Open Jaw achieves lower AWS costs and improved availability and scalability with Datavail and Amazon Aurora MySQL

Achieves Better Availability, Scalability, & Cost-efficiency with Amazon Aurora

Open Jaw, a global leader in travel retail e-commerce and loyalty programs, faced affordability, scalability, and manageability problems running a MariaDB Galera Cluster on Amazon EC2. As an existing Datavail customer, they wanted to lower AWS overhead and simplify operations without compromising performance or causing downtime for their SaaS customers.

Datavail migrated Open Jaw directly to Amazon Aurora MySQL using MySQL native replication, Amazon S3, an intermediary MySQL server for binlog conversion, and a red‑blue cutover to ensure minimal downtime and no single point of failure. The migration cut operational complexity and AWS costs, delivered built‑in high availability, auto‑scaling and faster storage, and produced measurable gains including a 10x reduction in backup/restore time, with Datavail providing ongoing post‑cloud support.

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