Case Study: Compass Group PLC achieves seamless AWS migration and up to 150% application performance improvement with Kyndryl

Compass Group PLC - Customer Case Study

Compass Group PLC’s Spanish business unit, Compass Group Spain, is a long-standing leader in catering and auxiliary services with over 13,000 employees. As the company centralized procurement and HR and adopted a corporate mandate to standardize on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Compass Group PLC needed greater agility to evolve and build applications while preserving institutional knowledge in its hosted environment—work Kyndryl was engaged to support during the cloud migration.

Kyndryl executed a lift-and-shift migration to AWS, moving a 6TB JD Edwards/Oracle ERP database and 130 virtual machines (VMs) with no business disruption, later transitioning databases to AWS RDS and taking over ongoing OS‑to‑database operations, cost optimization, and DR engineering across two AWS regions. The engagement delivered measurable impact: up to 150% improvement in application performance, a key process reduction from 20 minutes to 3 minutes, disaster recovery targets of 99.99% availability with 20‑minute DB restores, and increased agility for new application development—outcomes credited to Kyndryl’s deep business knowledge and cloud expertise.

Compass Group PLC

Javier Martin

CIO