End-to-End AWS Services for a Travel Technology Company Delivers Extensive Business Benefits

Client

A travel technology company headquartered in the US and is one of the largest global distribution systems providers for air bookings in North America.

Challenges

• No control on unused AMI images
• No validation of committed code
• Need for cost optimization
• Manual AWS account setup takes longer time (2-3 weeks) and is error prone
• No monitoring system for legacy accounts and AWS service outages
• Lack of visibility on Amazon Machine Image (AMI) image expiry
• IP address availability management is not tracked
•  Difficulty in releasing new infra changes 

LTM Solution

LTM team collaborated with the customer’s operational and engineering teams and proposed the Migration with Managed Services solution as below:

• Designed the AMI expiry solution using AWS core services (Lambda, DynamoDB, etc.) to identify the expired images.
• Developed one-click deployment product for building multiple accounts using AWS core services like Cloud Formation Template (CFT), Identity and Access Management (IAM), code build, and shell scripts.
• Designed and developed the product to identify unused AMIs and formalized the deletion process.
• Integrated the Jenkins file for all AWS repositories for Continuous Integration (CI) build for every code commit. 
• Designed and developed the new product for AWS Subnet IP monitoring.
• Built CI/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline and automated updation process of CFT stacks and stack set for infra.
• Developed the code to integrate AppDynamics and Trend Micro agents on all legacy instances.
• Wrote the code to delete unused snapshots for legacy instances using shell scripts.
• Implemented Amazon Health Aware (AHA) and integrated with MS Teams channel to send notifications to cloud team

Business Benefits

• $2766/month saved by removing unused images
• $30k cost savings per month to remove unused snapshots
• Reduced account build activities to 2-3 days from 2-3 weeks
• Achieved 90% AWS account setup automation
• Reduced manual stack deployment from 90 mins to 15 mins to minimize turnaround time
• Real-time infrastructure monitoring and alerting for application teams
• Ensured 100% monitoring of AWS service outages using AHA
• Reduced 90% of technical debts through 45+ SOP documentation