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3D printing company MakerBot explains how it moved from Amazon to Google Cloud and cut costs by 30% a month

Published by Business Insider on Tue, 06 Apr 2021


<p><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/606ca97130004b0019b263b0-2400/rtx15nh6.jpg" border="0" alt="RTX15NH6" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Brian Snyder" data-mce-caption="Twelve-year-old Leon McCarthy (R) talks about a MarkerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, with the company's CEO Bre Pettis, at the new MakerBot store in Boston, Massachusetts November 21, 2013. McCarthy, whose prosthetic hand is made of parts printed from a MakerBot 3D printer, broke a piece of it last week while playing football, so he printed a new finger to repair it. "></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>For years, the 3D printing company MakerBot hosted all its software and data through Amazon's cloud platform, AWS. But in 2018, the firm started seeking out alternatives in order to save money, reduce latency, and make life easier for its small engineering team.</p><p>MakerBot ultimately hired <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sada-systems-poached-michelle-ambrose-google-cloud-2021-2">SADA Systems</a> to help it make the migration to Google Cloud, since the services firm offers its clients support engineers, customer success managers, and more.&nbsp;</p><p>MakerBot started planning the move in February 2019 and by that summer it had set up teams to manage the process. It started preparing its production environment in September and by the end of that year its traffic was served entirely through Google Cloud.&nbsp;</p><p>Ultimately, MakerBot estimates that it cut its monthly costs by about 30% by switching from Amazon to Google, MakerBot's lead cloud software architect <a href="mailto:erik.ahrend@makerbot.com">Erik Ahrend</a> told Insider (the firm to share information about its overall spend).</p><p>The switch saved its engineers time, too:</p><p>MakerBot previously self-managed its use of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-kubernetes-google-cloud-2019-1">open source cloud computing project Kubernetes</a> on AWS's Elastic Compute Cloud, which required significant effort from its small team. It now uses a managed service so its developers can spend less time worrying while Google Cloud conducts most of the operational work.&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Migrating cloud databases can be a challenging process</strong></h2><p>Throughout the process, Google Cloud partner <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sada-systems-google-cloud-partner-gcp-2020-10">SADA</a> played a big role, Ahrend said, especially when MakerBot moved data from Amazon's Aurora databases to Google's BigQuery.&nbsp;</p><p>"I think we'd still be struggling right now if it wasn't for SADA," Ahrend told Insider. "Database is definitely the largest hiccup. SADA was there for us the entire time."</p><p>MakerBot also isn't <em>completely</em> off AWS: It still uses storage service Amazon S3 for some of its data.&nbsp;</p><p>"There are some masses we can't move out of AWS because the cost to move them would be too large and the amount of development work is too large," Ahrend said.</p><p>MakerBot's entire database migration took somewhere between four and six hours, it estimates, with about four hours of downtime total.&nbsp;</p><p>"Every hour of course marks a big difference of websites for that scale," <a href="mailto:john.campbell@sada.com">John Campbell</a>, vice president of customer experience and innovation at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-partner-sada-systems-coronavirus-crisis-2020-8">SADA</a>, told Insider.&nbsp;</p><p>Moving databases was a challenging process in part because of incompatibility between Aurora and BigQuery: While the tools work similarly, there is still a learning curve, Campbell said.&nbsp;</p><p>"When you look at the different clouds, they have similar services but the ways you operate them are unique to each of the clouds," Campbell said. "One of the things I talk about with moving to GCP, it's like knowing Italian and Spanish."</p><p>While Google is still <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-earnings-analysts-google-cloud-2021-2">a distant third</a> in terms of cloud market share, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-partner-sada-systems-500-million-agreement-2020-2">SADA expects to see</a> increased adoption for Google's cloud products, Campbell said.</p><p>"I think that's a testament to what Google is doing in the cloud world and their competition with Microsoft and Amazon," Campbell said. "We're seeing GCP continue to gain traction in the market as well."</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-from-aws-amazon-to-google-cloud-sada-systems-makerbot-2021-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melissa-maker-clean-your-home-quickly-cleaning-expert-2017-4">A cleaning expert reveals her 3-step method for cleaning your entire home quickly</a></p>
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