About the Customer
A2B Fulfillment is a third-party logistics and fulfillment company helping businesses across America work smarter through Order Fulfillment, Customer Care, and Value-Added Services. Headquartered in Greensboro, Georgia, A2B operates four distribution and fulfillment centers across the United States, supporting businesses coast to coast. Their specialized solutions are designed to improve the customer experience while optimizing operating costs through a variable logistics and fulfillment model. Scalability and availability are paramount to their ability to serve customers — making a reliable, high-performance cloud infrastructure essential to their operations.
Customer Challenge
Aging Infrastructure, Frequent Outages, and No Path to Scale
A2B Fulfillment had reached a critical inflection point with their on-premises data center. Aging hardware was causing frequent outages, and the investment required to upgrade the infrastructure was difficult to justify when those same funds could be redirected toward core business innovation. Performance, scalability, and availability were all falling short of what the business needed to meet customer commitments.
A2B wanted to evaluate how a cloud adoption strategy on AWS could deliver the performance and availability required for all of their critical business applications and workloads. With no internal AWS expertise, they recognized they needed more than just a migration vendor — they needed a true partner who could guide them through every step of the process with their business interests at the center.
Without action, A2B faced continued outages, mounting infrastructure costs with no scalability path, and an inability to support the growth demands of their fulfillment operations.
Partner Solution
Full Data Center Migration with an AWS Landing Zone in Under 6 Months
A2B was introduced to Atayo Group, an AWS Consulting Partner, to begin their cloud journey. Atayo started with a migration readiness assessment of all applications and workloads, then developed a Landing Zone (multi-account) deployment strategy designed to support the necessary security, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
Atayo's engagement included:
- Migration Readiness Assessment to evaluate all applications and workloads and define a phased migration strategy
- AWS Control Tower Landing Zone — a multi-account architecture providing governance, security guardrails, and operational readiness from day one
- Multi-AZ VPC design for high availability across all workloads and environments
- Lift-and-shift migration of all Microsoft Windows Server workloads using proven migration patterns
- Amazon FSx and Managed Microsoft AD for Windows file services and Active Directory integration
- Right-sizing of SQL Server and analytics environments — delivering significant performance improvements and cost optimization
- AWS Transit Gateway and VPN for secure, scalable network connectivity across A2B's distributed operations
- Amazon Route 53 for DNS management and traffic routing
From initial kickoff to full production operation on AWS, the entire data center migration was completed in under 6 months — with improved availability of A2B's customer-facing application portals and order submission systems delivered as part of the engagement.
“Nothing short of an exceptional experience with Atayo. Experts in cloud migration, professional with their processes and implementation, a true partner. Quite simply a first class operation.”
About the Partner
Atayo Group is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner specializing in cloud migration, managed infrastructure services, cloud security, and data intelligence. Headquartered in Tampa, FL, Atayo delivers end-to-end cloud solutions for enterprise customers across North America. Atayo holds AWS competencies in Migration and Healthcare, and is recognized as an AWS Well-Architected Partner. Atayo's core competencies include migrations, Microsoft workloads, AWS Landing Zones, and DevOps — from migration strategy through operational excellence and transformation.