Riviera Travel is an award-winning cruise and tour operator. For over 37 years, they have provided luxury international travel experiences aboard 5-star ships and yachts, as well as guided walking tours of famous cities and landmarks. Riviera Travel’s high-quality holidays have earned them recognition from the British Travel Awards, Cruise Critic, Which? and several national newspapers.

To take advantage of more scalable and cost-effective technologies, Riviera Travel wanted to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to the public cloud. They were working towards this goal and wanted to assess their on-premises estate to gain a deeper understanding of their existing technologies, the interdependencies between applications and databases, the cost implications of a cloud migration and the best option for their business needs.

Bytes was engaged to help Riviera Travel migrate their IT infrastructure to the AWS cloud from an existing data center environment. We started by conducting an Optimisation and Licensing Assessment (OLA) which provided a high-level view of migration options and costs to support the customers business case to move. With the business decision made, Riviera Travel then engaged Bytes to perform the migration to AWS. This started with a more detailed assessment and discovery of their existing estate to aid the migration planning, quickly followed by laying the foundations for their new environment in AWS in the form of a Landing Zone. Migration plans were then validated during a pilot migration before the green light was given for Bytes AWS Professional Services to migrate the remaining customer workloads. 

As an Advanced Tier AWS Partner, Bytes were able to leverage the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) to secure AWS funding and migrate Riviera Travel's servers, storage, and applications to the AWS cloud while ensuring that all data remained secure and compliant with industry regulations. We also optimized their infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability using a range of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and AWS CloudFormation.

The migration to the AWS cloud has delivered significant benefits to Riviera Travel. They now have a scalable and secure IT infrastructure that is more efficient and cost-effective than their previous on-premises solution. The company has also seen a significant improvement in performance and reliability, which has allowed them to better serve their customers. The AWS cloud has also provided Riviera Travel with enhanced disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, ensuring that they can continue to operate in the event of an unexpected outage.

Additionally, the company now has access to a wide range of AWS services that can be easily integrated into their operations to support their ongoing growth and expansion. In conclusion, Riviera Travel's migration to the AWS cloud with the help of Bytes AWS Professional Services has delivered a range of significant benefits. By leveraging the AWS Migration Acceleration Programme (MAP) framework and a range of AWS services, we were able to deliver a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution that has transformed Riviera Travel's IT infrastructure and supported their continued success.