Giffgaff goes AWS to drive operational transformation
UK mobile virtual network operator selects Amazon cloud as part of plan to accelerate innovation and enhance new services
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UK mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Giffgaff, which runs on the O2 network, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) to base all its technology infrastructure and application development, becoming the first MVNO in Europe to go all-in on the AWS cloud.
In the deployment, Giffgaff will use more than 60 AWS services, including compute, analytics, storage, databases, containers and machine learning. The company says it will aim to analyse and understand better in real time which services its members are using, what new services they want and then quickly enhance and introduce new services. By the end of 2020, it will migrate its remaining applications and databases from its existing on-premise datacentre to AWS.
The UK MVNO becomes the first in n Europe to be powered by Amazon’s cloud computing arm
UK mobile network operator Giffgaff has outlined plans to shift its entire IT infrastructure and operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS), completing its migration from on-premise data centres by the end of the year.
Giffgaff will opt into more than 60 of AWS 175 cloud services, the company announced, including compute, analytics, storage, databases, containers and machine learning. In doing so, the firm will become the first European mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to be powered by AWS in its entirety.
The company will have shifted its IT infrastructure and application development operations to AWS by 2021, as it aims to become more capable of experimenting at pace, and speeding up a host of internal processes. The company claims to have already transformed its development lifecycle from a complex and monolithic approach to a modern, microservices-based architecture that’s enabled
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Using AWS in full increases efficiency and analytics detail
giffgaff will migrate all of its technology infrastructure and application development to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, which it claims will make it the first MVNO in Europe to do so.
By the end of the year, giffgaff will remove all of its databases and applications from its existing on-premises data centre to AWS, a move that the company says will make it more efficient and quick to develop new applications for its users and respond quicker to issues.
giffgaff is using more than 60 of AWS 175+ services to give it a better understanding of which services its members are using, what new services they want, and how it can best implement these services.
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UK MVNO
giffgaff is migrating its entire IT stack and application development work from its in-house servers to
Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the migration set to be completed by the end of this year. It will use more than 60 of AWS’s 175+ services to fulfil its needs. The move will make the MVNO, which is owned by O2 UK and (naturally) uses its network to provide mobile services, more efficient and speed up development times, according to the company’s chief operating and technical officer Steve MacDonald.