Cloud Migration provides 81% IT cost savings

Fira Barcelona (FB), one of the most important trade fair institutions in Europe and headquarters of the Mobile World Congress among other large-scale international events, migrated their infrastructure to a Cloud model. It allowed FB to reach the necessary availability during their many highly-concurred international events. At the same time, infrastructure and operating costs were reduced by 81%.

Challenge

Cloud Architecture and Backend Services

High Availability and Cost Reduction

Fira Barcelona organizes and provides service for 50+ events with international projection. the goal was to manage event physical access and digital interactions for over 100,000 attendees within a high-security environment. Acceleration of time-to-market, agility, and flexibility were required in its infrastructure, adjusting the operating costs and offering a highly-available service that can withstand large attendance peaks.

Solution

Seamless Cloud Migration

A cloud service migration with scalable, flexible and global architecture model designed by Opentrends to unlock all AWS PaaS potential:

Scalability and flexibility -focus through a layer of microservices (SDA) in Docker, unfolded in Elastic Container Service.
Unified authentication for all sites and APIs (CAS).
Development environment based on CI tools to facilitate productivity.
CloudFront to distribute static content in S3 with low latency for our client.
Serverless: achieve flexibility without servers.
Analytics based on Kinesis and Redshift, allowing the client a 360º view.
Real-time service key indicators monitoring to ensure the architecture scalability. This includes dashboards, alarms, and logs.

Results

Significant Cost-Savings When Going Cloud

81% Cost savings compared to the initial on-premise scenario (this savings allowed to improve the initial estimation by the AWS’s TCO calculation tool up to 34%).
Guarantee the correct applications and systems for Fira de Barcelona's business needs.
Provision of a controlled framework for the project providers.
Improvement of new developments' efficiency and quicker time-to-market.
Minimization of recurring tasks and maintenance efforts.
Operating system cost savings.

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18+ Year Experience Applied

Optimization: with our optimization techniques, we help our clients save costs and improve the scalability, security and performance of their infrastructures.
Pragmatic solutions: our cloud strategy framework follows a quick-wins approach, and allows us to trace the investment. We offer cloud-native architectures that accelerate processes.
Experience: we provide a sum of constantly validated practical improvements in migration, cloud-native developments and DevOps managed operations, all backed by our experience.

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