Our US-based client is a leading global technology company in the payments industry. It aims to connect and power an inclusive digital economy by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
The Challenge
Due to the global scale of operations and the large number of daily transactions, our client had to deploy multiple environments across various cloud service providers for payment processing, resulting in a cloud infrastructure sprawl. The client struggled to optimally govern, manage, and operate its cloud infrastructure, owing to a lack of cloud hygiene, where teams provisioned separate environments for each instance of deploying or testing applications and kept cloud resources running even when not in use. Moreover, these cloud-hosted applications were deployed in an all-or-nothing fashion, with limited scope for modularity, further contributing to burgeoning costs and rendering the move to the cloud unsustainable.
The Outcome
The client turned to Persistent to help rein in cloud operating costs and optimize resource utilization. We leveraged Persistent Intelligent Provisioning On Demand (PiPOD), our in-house infrastructure provisioning platform that layers the approach to infrastructure provisioning. The platform automates infrastructure provisioning, de-provisioning, and lifecycle management across leading cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
PiPOD enables the client to access modularized infrastructure as code pipelines, which facilitate on demand creation or teardown of cloud environments. The client can also run a scheduler that automates cloud infrastructure provisioning with set times for infrastructure set-up and shutdown.
Our cloud experts deployed the client’s applications into a common standardized infrastructure with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, significantly improving cloud hygiene and resource utilization. This client’s cloud environment is now highly configurable and aligns with standard optimization guidelines.
The Solution
With a consolidated infrastructure underpinned by cloud hygiene guidelines, the client:
- Reduced cloud operating costs by 25%.
- Gained cost visibility and tracking using a tagging strategy.
- Streamlined payment processing with standardized cloud environments.
- Strategically allots budget based on cost-centers and the business value they generate.
