Case Study: Channel 5 achieves zero-downtime cloud migration for My5 with Softwire

Channel 5 migrates My5 to the cloud with zero downtime with Softwire

Channel 5, a UK broadcaster, needed to migrate its critical My5 on-demand television service to the cloud without any interruption to viewers. They engaged their trusted development partner, Softwire, to plan and deliver this zero-downtime cloud transformation to reduce costs, enhance availability, and improve the viewer experience.

Softwire architected a high-availability platform on AWS, refactoring and containerizing the services to enable on-demand scaling. They then executed a phased, zero-downtime migration. The results for Channel 5 included immediate cost savings from scalable infrastructure, a markedly improved user experience with better performance at peak times, and a foundation that makes the service significantly easier to maintain and modernize.

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