Case Study: Cando Rail & Terminals achieves sub‑2‑second deployments, lower costs and improved performance with Rackspace Technology (Onica)

Cando Rail & Terminals went serverless to improve performance and efficiency

Cando Rail & Terminals, a 42‑year provider of rail services, built Quasar, an IoT platform to modernize railcar and shipment tracking but was struggling with high latency, browser crashes, database failures and an architecture that lacked CI/CD and security best practices. The company needed a serverless, scalable solution and an experienced AWS partner to re‑architect its environment and reliably process large volumes of sensor data.

Rackspace Technology’s Onica team reworked Cando’s AWS stack into a serverless architecture (API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, SNS, RDS, etc.), implemented CI/CD and security best practices, consolidated monitoring, and provided ongoing 24x7 support via an Onica Teams engagement. The changes lowered costs, improved performance and stability, shortened deployment times from 90 seconds to under 2 seconds, and enabled predictable, scalable operations that supported winning larger customers.

Cando Rail & Terminals

Corrie Banks

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