Successful Migration of UK Government Department to AWS Cloud
Overview.
Client is a 15 year old non-ministerial department of the UK Government formed by merger of 2 different departments in the same domain. Clientis responsible for the collection of taxes and the administration of other regulatory regimes. Client has over 50,000 members and is supported by 2 agencies and public bodies. A vital purpose of this organization is to collect the money that helps fund the UK’s public services and families & individuals with necessary financial support.
On-premise infrastructure hosting and maintenance cost is high compared to AWS Cloud
Lack of automation for infra provisioning/management and application deployment/releases
Scattered landscape with legacy java-based custom middleware components leveraged by Pega
Solution.
Migrated Pega application instances in 6 environments from on-premise to AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Delivered reusable ansible templates to automatically provision the infrastructure and configuration management in the AWS VPC Delivered CI/CD Jenkins pipeline on the Cloud to automatically deploy the Pega code from development environment to production environment Upgraded the platform from Pega v8.2 to v8.3.1
PROGRAM DETAILS
Technology stack: On-Premise to AWS cloud & Pega 8.2 to 8.3.1 Engagement model: All Onshore Team size: 4 Time to production: 10 weeks
The impact.
End-to-end infrastructure provisioning and application deployment automation resulting in 30% reduction in operational costs
Advanced security with the AWS networking services (Route tables, NACL’s, NAT Gateways and Security Groups)
Advanced Application and Infrastructure monitoring with AWS Cloud
Landscape simplification by moving the java components into Pega results in projected savings in application maintenance by 10-15%
