{"id":39647,"date":"2021-06-01T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=39647"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:10:14","slug":"standard-bank-seamlessly-transitions-to-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2021\/06\/01\/standard-bank-seamlessly-transitions-to-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank seamlessly transitions to cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Standard Bank decided to migrate its on-premise Atlassian toolset on to the AWS infrastructure and partnered with Synthesis to ensure best practices were adhered to and a seamless transition was possible.\u202f<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of significant outages were experienced on this toolset due to the on-premise infrastructure having aged.\u202fUsers were faced with an increase in outages impacting delivery.\u202fThis and the group\u2019s cloud aspiration were the catalysts to migrate the Atlassian toolset to AWS.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standard Bank approached AWS for assistance and were encouraged to partner with Synthesis due to the company\u2019s experience in migrating Atlassian workloads to AWS for other corporates. Due to the importance of this toolset in support of the DevSecOps journey, a dedicated, scalable, resilient and secure platform was required. \u202fOver and above this, the ability to spin up instances on demand, scale when required, deploy to multiple regions with the comfort of multiple availability zones for high availability resulted in the bank partnering with AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the partnership with Synthesis, detailed migration plans and timelines were crafted. An assessment of the current on-prem infrastructure including operating systems and databases was undertaken and these specifications were scripted in Cloud Formation scripts. These reusable scripts were used to build the base infrastructure in AWS on which these applications would be installed. Jira and Confluence were identified as the first applications for migration. As this was new to the Enterprise Tools team, a steep but fast learning curve was undertaken with a number of trial and errors involved. An example being the destroying of instances and creating new ones until they were 100 % right.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keshni Govender from the Standard Bank Enterprise Tools Team said:\u202f\u201cOur experience from the past three months has been tremendous. The meantime to restore impacted services has improved significantly. No longer do we need time to troubleshoot issues while users are impacted. Failover has been built in and the Jira and Confluence instances recovers almost immediately, causing far less impact to users.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soraya Omar,\u202fPractice Lead, Software Engineering Tools, Standard Bank Group explained that: \u201cFoundation training for deploying to cloud was essential for setting ourselves up for success. Having dedicated people, a migration partner in Synthesis and the appropriate support structure from within Standard Bank and AWS we were able to reach our cloud aspiration effortlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMoving the Atlassian stack to the AWS Cloud has already shown true benefit with doing such a migration,\u201d say Nick Cadenhead, Customer Success Manager, Synthesis. \u201cBeing able to right-size the infrastructure for the Atlassian Stack demonstrates true value upfront by using such AWS Cloud services like EC2 and auto scaling for applications and RDS for databases. Applications are allocated to the right resources to meet demand and can scale automatically to meet demand spikes like application build cycles from a large developer community. Database maintenance is managed by the cloud itself so support personnel are freed up to work on more important tasks for the business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Matus, Business Developer Executive, Synthesis added: \u201cThis migration project with the Enterprise Tooling team demonstrates another successful engagement between Standard Bank and Synthesis and continues to show Synthesis commitment to its long-standing partnership with Standard Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Bank decided to migrate its on-premise Atlassian toolset on to the AWS infrastructure and partnered with Synthesis to ensure best practices were adhered to and a seamless transition was possible.\u202f Challenge A number of significant outages were experienced on this toolset due to the on-premise infrastructure having aged.\u202fUsers were faced with an increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,34,182,396,36,275,9056,183,9059,13583,13,262],"tags":[619,6377,10616],"class_list":["post-39647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-finance","category-case-studies","category-cloud","category-industry-verticals","category-intelligent-technology","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-regions","category-software","category-south-africa","category-success-stories","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-aws","tag-standard-bank","tag-synthesis"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39704,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions\/39704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}