Cloud Computing & Cloud Transformation

Cloud migration helps client cut tech costs by 70% while accelerating new product launches

Company Overview
  • US-based digital finance firm
  • $800M revenue
Tech Overview
  • 1,500+ Servers
  • 250+ Applications
  • 2 Large, recent aquisitions

Business & Technical Challenges

  • Rapidly expanding customer base was stretching legacy systems
  • 3 brands, providing similar services, were managed on different legacy tech stacks increasing costs
  • On-prem infrastructure was unreliable, costly and inflexible
  • Applications and database bloat challenged the dev and support teams to maintain and innovate
  • Unplanned outages and increasing P1 issues led to revenue loss and made planning and forecasting unreliable

Canterr's Solution

  • Conducted comprehensive review of all projects/resources, identified redundancies and proposed an overarching cloud-based architecture
  • Established standard DevSecOps and resource tagging policies
  • Leveraged AWS Landing Zones and Control Tower to automate resource creation using security and compliance best practices
  • Designed a data warehouse using AWS Redshift to centralize all data capture, storage, processing and eventual archiving / sunsetting
  • Consolidated and migrated all applications and their data to the cloud in a phased manner
  • Built customized reporting using AWS Athena and QuickSight that combined customer interactions across all 3 brands,to provide a unified business view

Results

  • Faster provisioning of systems, from days to hours, accelerates innovation
  • Higher flexibility, agility and resilience provided by the AWS cloud vs. on-prem
  • Resource tagging + restrictive IAM policies improve enterprise security profile
  • 30% reduction in IT total cost of ownership through data-center exit and consolidation
  • 50% reduction in tech-debt which means increased focus on innovation
  • Automated CICD deployment and standardized DevOps processes
  • 50% reduction in tech-debt which means increased focus on innovation