TECHNOLOGY
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Communication and entertainment
Fira de Barcelona

81% Cost reduction by migrating to cloud

Challenge

High availability and cost reduction

Fira de Barcelona, a leading European trade fair organizer hosting events like Mobile World Congress (MWC), sought to enhance its infrastructure's speed, adaptability, and cost-efficiency. The goal was to deliver a highly reliable service that could handle peak usage during major events like MWC, which attracts over 100,000 global attendees in just four days.

Solution

Cloud migration

Migrate their infrastructure to a scalable, flexible, and global cloud model designed to leverage the full potential of AWS cloud PaaS:

  • Scalability and flexibility achieved through a layer of microservices (SDA) in Docker deployed on Elastic Container Service
  • Unified authentication for all sites and APIs (CAS)
  • Development environment based on continuous integration tools
  • CloudFront for distribution of static content in S3 with low latency for our customers
  • Serverless: Lambdas to be flexible without the need to provision or manage servers
  • Analytics based on Kinesis and Redshift to have a 360º view of the Customer
  • Real-time monitoring of key service indicators to ensure architecture scalability, including: dashboards, alarms, and logs
  • Technology

    Cloud-native, microservices, serverless

  • Methodology

    DevOps

  • Partners

    AWS, Elastic

caso de éxito fira de Barcelona

81% cost reduction compared to the on-premise scenario

Results

Increased productivity and efficiency

Key Benefits:

  • Significant Cost Savings: Achieved an 81% reduction in costs compared to the on-premise setup, exceeding initial AWS TCO estimates by 34%.
  • Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency: Streamlined operations, increasing productivity and efficiency across the board.
  • Improved Alignment: Ensured applications and systems perfectly align with Fira de Barcelona's business objectives.
  • Standardized Framework: Established a controlled framework for project suppliers, improving project management and consistency.
  • Accelerated Time-to-Market: Reduced development cycles, allowing for faster introduction of new products and services.
  • Minimized Maintenance: Significantly reduced the time and effort required for maintenance and recurring tasks.
  • Lower Operating Costs: Achieved substantial reductions in ongoing system operating expenses.