Launched in 2006, TimesNow News is an India-based English news channel operated by Bennett & Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), a leading global media conglomerate. As a major brand of the Times Group and one of India’s most popular English newspapers, it encompasses multiple digital properties that work together to provide a complete viewer experience platform. With a revenue model revolving around advertising and content licensing, digital infrastructure and operations are critical components of TimesNow News’s media business, with blazing-fast, real-time, and always-available content delivery needs and capabilities.
The client’s operating model relies on frequent release cycles. In order to align with their business goals, they needed Brillio to leverage its expertise to deliver faster release cycles and optimize the processes and infrastructure.
The customer also wanted parallel admin control for users, not only for partners, to manage their infrastructure, as well as enhanced security and governance.
To tackle the challenge, Brillio decided to leverage Next-Gen AWS MSP for the client and improve not only the client’s requests but more. With NextGen MSP, we set the stage for amazing business scalability in critical avenues.
Next-gen AWS MSPs focus on business outcomes that go beyond the immediate scope, focusing on four key areas to help customers succeed, such as plan and design, build and migrate, run and operate, and optimize.
For this, we have employed several cutting-edge AWS technologies, such as AWS Cloud, AWS DevOps, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS CloudFormation.
To start, Brillio has created multiple CloudFormation templates for different environments to reduce manual provisioning and further optimize the processes.
We have leveraged our deep AWS DevOps expertise, along with CI/CD tools for rapid and safe software delivery.
For further cost reduction, we have started monitoring costs using AWS cost management features. We’ve helped the client set up budgets and alerts in case of unexpected spikes.
Our team also baked in the monitoring agent installation in the AMI which is part of the Autoscaling group launch config.
We’ve managed to perform a monthly audit on the AWS environment to scan the vulnerabilities in the security group ports, find IAM users with no MFA, rotate credentials, etc.
Following Brillio’s successful implementation of Next-Gen AWS MSP solutions, the client managed to significantly reduce costs, and add powerful new cloud features with improved security, as well as much faster release cycles, helping the client align their processes with their business goals.
The client managed to achieve more than 25% cost savings by leveraging AWS cost management features.
Plus, the security posture was thoroughly improved by conducting regular audits, and we managed to achieve a 35% reduction in the release cycle by using CloudFormation & CI/CD tools.