British American Tobacco

Case Study

Multi Region AWS Deployment of Magento Commerce

For British American Tobacco (BAT), the client needed to accelerate the secure and easy hosting of new international e-cigarette websites on AWS. KO Technologies delivered a comprehensive AWS Cloud & DevOps Services solution that focused on a multi-region deployment of their Adobe Magento Commerce Platform and MySQL RDS using a Terragrunt/Terraform automation stack. The solution included end-to-end automation, including the Imperva WAF/CDN, which has significantly reduced deployment time and ensured a highly scalable, high-performance, and secure global platform for their digital presence.

The Client

British American Tobacco is the world’s largest tobacco retailer with a turnover of £25 Billion per annum. They use the Adobe Magento Commerce Platform for their eCigarette/Vape digital presence.

  • Name
    British American Tobacco
  • Turnover
    £25 Billion per annum
  • Location
    Global

Tools and Techniques implemented to scale effortlessly across the AWS regions.

Head of Platform & Operations

Challenges

  • An extensive program to modernise and implement new streamlined infrastructure stacks for their new programs.
  • Projects to host region specific workloads so that latency for end users is kept to a minimum.

Solutions

  • Streamlined Automation: Simplified the existing Terraform setup by introducing Terragrunt, removing repetition to make multi-region provisioning simple and repeatable.
  • Multi-Region Deployment: Created fully automated AWS EC2, RDS, S3, and Redis infrastructure for each required AWS region.
  • Security and Observability: Automation was extended to include the configuration of the Imperva WAF for enhanced security, as well as integrating Dynatrace for monitoring and performance.
  • Cost Optimization: Implemented AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to manage and reduce costs across the huge multi-region infrastructure footprint.


Results

At KO Technologies, we believe the numbers speak for themselves. Explore the tangible impact of our strategic implementations, from accelerated deployment timelines to immediate cost reductions and robust system performance.

Speed to innovations is vastly reduced by delivering a modern migration to AWS.

Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques.

Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.

Enhance Observability with Dynatrace – increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.

Toolbox

AWS, Dynatrace, Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, OIDC, GITHUB, Python, GitHub, MAGENTO

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