Our client, high-speed train service provider linking the UK to the European continent, wanted to accelerate their digitization journey, improve their online presence and deliver a superior passenger and employee experience. They were limited by the legacy infrastructure environment, manual build & release process leading to high IT operational cost and non-alignment of SLAs with business needs. They required agility and scalability in their operations to respond to unpredictable changes like the COVID-19 pandemic. They envisioned transforming their operations through improvements in fleet, services, and stations, and sought to migrate their backend and critical applications to AWS cloud to reduce the development & release cycle and drive agility in operations.
In order to achieve the business goal, Coforge took an aggressive timeline to migrate over 50 business critical applications to AWS cloud in 5 months. An agile team was formed which adopted iterative and collaborative practices to deliver the project within the required timeframe.
Key solution aspects:
Robust, Flexible, and Achievable Plan: Delivery of services as per business criticality was planned in such a way that learning from each sprint was fed to the subsequent sprint.
Migration and Delivery Approach: Lift & shift approach using AWS migration services using agile practices by identifying key applications and their dependencies.
CI-CD: Infrastructure as a Code: Services for new project were launched using CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins and Ansible .
Monitor and Secure: Cloud tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF) were planned and implemented.
Agile, scalable and secure platform using AWS implementation, the development environment set-up/provision time was drastically reduced, faster release cycles were achieved, and the new infrastructure supported the client's ambitious growth plans, driving excellent experiences for millions of travelers.