We carved a global consumer business out of its parent environment and stood up a cloud-native IT operation that was ready from day one.
The challenge
After being separated from a large global parent company, a UK consumer goods business needed to establish independent IT operations within a compressed divestiture timeline. The organisation had previously relied on the parent company’s offshore infrastructure, shared services, network connectivity, support teams and operational knowledge.
The separation created a hard deadline and a high-risk transition. Systems, data, integrations, support processes and service commitments all needed to move to an independent operating model without disrupting the business. The organisation also needed enterprise-grade capability without inheriting an enterprise-scale cost base.
What we did
We provided strategic oversight and technical leadership across the carve-out and cloud migration. We coordinated with the parent organisation to understand system configurations, data structures and integration dependencies, while simultaneously designing the independent target environment.
The solution centred on a secure, cloud-native AWS foundation covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, backup, monitoring and recovery. Automation was designed in from the outset: backup routines, scaling policies, alerts and recovery procedures were implemented as managed operational processes rather than manual runbooks.
Each business-critical application was assessed for cloud readiness and migrated using the appropriate approach, from re-hosting through to targeted re-platforming. Cost optimisation was built into the operating model, including non-production scheduling, right-sizing and reserved capacity where predictable. A 24/7 managed service was also established to handle incidents, changes and service requests after cutover.
What it delivered
The divested business gained an independent IT environment that could operate from day one, with resilient cloud infrastructure, clear support processes and reduced reliance on manual operational effort. The migration enabled separation from the parent company without operational paralysis.
The cloud operating model also delivered a significant cost benefit. Intelligent workload management reduced non-production compute costs by 65% against baseline projections, proving that the new environment could be both more independent and more efficient.
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