Online clothing retail at scale migrates to the cloud

The retailer therefore embarked on a migration to cloud-based infrastructure supported by a programme of best-practices training for technical staff. The migration had to be completed without service interruption, especially during the busiest times of the year.

On the recommendation of Infinity Works, the retailer selected AWS as the cloud platform.

In five months and with a team of six consultants, Infinity Works:

deployed and documented a secure, stable, highly available platform with real-time alerts, monitoring and automatic scaling in line with demand;
developed new ways of working with a small, cross-skilled team, including a support team embedded into the core product team, with new development, test, and release workflows;
fully trained support teams in the new AWS environment and technologies, and in the additional tooling used;
decommissioned the old on-premises infrastructure once the website was safely migrated to the cloud without disruption;
improved processes by migrating from waterfall-based change and project management and replacing a confusing system of acceptance criteria with a clearer and more useful system of just four service acceptance criteria, enabling quick releases and shorter infrastructure change lead-times.

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