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AWS Migration and Managed Services for Cell C

Services Covered:

Cloud Consulting and Services • Managed IT Services • DevOps
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Industry
Industry

Telecommunications

Duration
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22 months

Budget
Budget

Confidential

Start Date
Start Date

1 November 2023

Team Size
Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Onshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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85/100
Strong

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Client

Cell C

mapJohannesburg, South Africa

Project Summary

BBD provided AWS managed services to Cell C, upgrading a critical application and migrating it from on-premises infrastructure to AWS while ensuring disaster recovery readiness and performance optimization. The engagement included AWS environment commissioning, testing, customer migration enablement, and governance documentation. BBD demonstrated strong technical responsiveness, proactive collaboration, and support for FinOps and cloud governance throughout the project.

Key Challenges

  • AWS managed services engagement and modernization of infrastructure.
  • Upgrade a critical on-premises application and migrate it to AWS.
  • Ensure disaster recovery readiness and performance optimization while enabling customer migration and future API conversions.

Project Deliverables

  • Upgrade of critical application to new version
  • Migration of platform from on-premises infrastructure to AWS
  • AWS environment setup and commissioning
  • Disaster recovery readiness and performance optimization
  • Customer data migration enablement
  • Testing and validation
  • Project governance and documentation
  • Support for future enhancements (e.g., SOAP-to-REST API conversion)

Project Solution

BBD upgraded Cell C's critical application to a new version and migrated the upgraded platform from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. They commissioned the AWS environment, implemented disaster recovery readiness and performance optimizations, enabled customer data migration, conducted testing and validation, and delivered project governance and documentation to support future enhancements such as SOAP-to-REST API conversion.

Project Outcome

  • Infrastructure setup and commissioning completed.
  • Core upgrade and migration execution completed.
  • Testing and validation conducted.
  • Customer migration enablement achieved.
  • Project governance and documentation delivered.
  • Project closed out successfully with all key deliverables met.

Platforms

  • CloudCloud

Tech Stack

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.75star

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“BBD has completed the client's project, meeting all key deliverables. The team has demonstrated strong technical responsiveness and collaborative engagement throughout the project. BBD has been proactive and flexible, allowing the client to respond quickly to their evolving infrastructure needs. This review is an update by the client company. The original content is located below the new review.”

Arinavho Tshifularo

Sr Manager IT Infrastructure

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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