An online retailer's AWS bill had quadrupled in a year while performance got worse, and nobody could point to the waste. Ahead of Black Friday we re-engineered the infrastructure to cost less and run faster.
Growth had been bought with bigger instances and more of them. Costs were rising faster than revenue, latency was creeping up, and the peak-season plan was simply to scale everything further — a plan that risked both the budget and the platform.
Other projects from the same team.
Local government NHZ Global supplied and customised a mobile device management platform that lets a London borough council's IT team lock down, configure and support frontline Android devices from one console — later licensed to a second borough.
Local government / passenger transport Councils run hundreds of daily home-to-school journeys for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Sendtra gives the transport office one place to plan routes, allocate drivers and passenger assistants, and see every journey happening — with a driver app that replaces paper run sheets.
Trading & distribution Al Shahama Trading replaced spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads with a CRM built around the way their sales team actually works — from first enquiry to quotation to order — hosted and supported by NHZ Global on a monthly plan.
