ShareChat’s cloud infrastructure, completely based on Amazon Web Services(AWS) from compute to databases, was faced with a formidable challenge of migrating to Google Cloud Platform(GCP). Any cloud to cloud migration is a long and demanding process where we had to tackle varying multiple problems, some of them might not even have been heard of before. In this post, we are going to discuss how we addressed the issues and challenges faced for our traffic migration from AWS to GCP, right from initial experimentation level to final Big Bang cutover.

Overview

We maintain a microservices architecture at ShareChat which runs a vast…