How Toyota migrated Its Safety Connect telematics services platform with virtually zero downtime to AWS

This article discusses how Toyota Motor Corporation migrated its Drivelink Safety Connect application, which provides real-time assistance to drivers during emergencies, from an on-premises environment to AWS. The migration aimed to improve system uptime and performance while minimizing impact on customer experience.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Overview of Drivelink Safety Connect and its mission
• Pre-migration architecture and migration approach
• Post-migration architecture on AWS, including:
  • MongoDB Atlas on AWS for database
  • Amazon EKS for microservices
  • CloudAMQP for message bus
  • AWS Direct Connect for network connectivity
  • Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore for caching
• Mechanisms used for near-zero downtime migration (e.g., blue/green deployment, canary releases, database replication)
• Resiliency measures implemented (e.g., multi-AZ, multi-region)
• Cost optimization plans (e.g., AWS Fargate, AWS Graviton, Amazon QuickSight)
• Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the migration