Krueger Transport Equipment, an established player in transport and manufacturing, relied on an ageing on-premises VMware estate spread across sites in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The environment hosted mission-critical workloads, from Active Directory and SAP Business One to ERP, payroll and reporting systems, on a mix of end-of-life and more recent Windows Server and Linux platforms. Daily outages and unsupported software were creating more risk than the business could carry. Over a focused engagement, Infostatus migrated the entire estate to AWS with zero unplanned downtime and a materially lower running cost.

The challenge

Running mission-critical applications on unsupported or outdated servers meant Krueger was constantly firefighting. Network and application outages were a regular event, hardware failures demanded costly maintenance, and operating across multiple sites made reliability difficult to guarantee.

Engagement summary

Working in agile, sprint-based cycles, our team assessed every workload to decide what to migrate, modernise, decommission or archive. Each cutover was rehearsed and validated against Krueger’s uptime goals, with regular stakeholder demos to keep the business aligned throughout.

What we did

Lift-and-shift with AWS Application Migration Service. We used AWS Application Migration Service to continuously replicate each on-premises server into AWS, creating near-identical EC2 instances. Parameterised launch templates handled network settings, instance sizing and storage to match the original configurations.

Resilient, secure network design. We built a dual AWS Direct Connect setup, with a primary and a failover link from two sites, both terminating in a multi-availability-zone VPC in the Sydney region. AWS Client VPN and AD Connector let Krueger staff authenticate against their existing Active Directory without disruption.

Post-cutover optimisation. Once workloads were live, we right-sized instance types based on real usage and applied committed-use pricing. Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector and AWS Security Hub added continuous threat detection and compliance checks, and EBS volumes were encrypted at rest.

Outcomes

• Zero unplanned downtime through cutover and ever since
• Around 25% reduction in annual infrastructure cost through right-sizing and committed-use pricing
• A scalable, elastic platform with headroom for future growth
• A stronger security posture, with encryption and continuous monitoring across once-vulnerable systems

Lessons learned

Migrating unsupported workloads reinforced the value of a thorough pre-migration audit. Parameter-driven migration templates meant faster provisioning and fewer surprises, and keeping stakeholders close with regular demos built trust and smoothed the path to cloud.

Next steps

Krueger moved onto an ongoing managed services agreement with Infostatus covering AWS support, optimisation and quarterly reviews, with a roadmap to modernise the migrated workloads using serverless and container-based architectures.

“A very well-executed cloud migration project and the platform to further build our business. Thank you, Infostatus, for delivering a safe, secure operating environment and for the ongoing management of our cloud infrastructure.”

Kevin Dennis, CEO, Krueger Transport Equipment