Migration of a legacy on-premise server tooling kit into cloud-based serverless services

Acrolinx came to life at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and has been developed by the world's leading AI experts in Natural Language Processing. The company provides an AI-powered platform for enterprise content governance to increase the impact of their content by creating engaging, readable, consistent, and compliant content in an efficient and cost-effective way at scale. Some brands using the Acrolinx product are: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Sony, Volvo, Scania, Boeing, Siemens.

The existing Acrolinx deployment model was originally developed for on-premise systems. When migrating customers to the cloud, Acrolinx needed to lay the foundation for a cloud based deployment environment.

From a technical perspective, Terraform was used to automate the process of deploying the existing tooling into a cloud environment. AWS Lambda was used to enable the dynamic provisioning of resources. Owing to AWS Lambda, Acrolinx customers are able to pay only for the processing power used during the deployment and maintenance of the activities involved. The client’s customers are now in a position to benefit from the flexible on-demand pricing schemes. On top of that, the project has helped to significantly simplify the provisioning of deployment tooling for new customers when the latter onboard the system.