Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Our goal was to provide FCDO with a more modern hosting service and by migrating to AWS we were able to leverage its Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings which meant that FCDO would be able to run the new service with less time, effort and money expended supporting and maintaining the services.
Date posted
26 April 2020
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is a ministerial department supported by 12 agencies and public bodies. FCDO wanted to replace its legacy hosting service for two critical services they offer British citizens – Emergency Travel Documents and legalising UK citizen documents. Our goal was to provide FCDO with a more modern hosting service and by migrating to AWS we were able to leverage its Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings which meant that FCDO would be able to run the new service with less time, effort and money expended supporting and maintaining the services.
"It has been a great experience to partner with Kainos on a recent cloud migration. This is an essential service for British citizens and Kainos’ agile approach ensured the project was delivered safely, securely and on time. Given the challenging circumstances of COVID-19, we were particularly impressed with Kainos’ strong focus and ability to deliver when it mattered."
Digital Transformation Unit
FCDO
