Choice Hotel completes full migration to AWS cloud
Feb 01, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Choice Hotels International has closed its last data center and completed its full migration to the cloud after a five year process, which involved decommissioning more than 3,729 servers, retiring over 300 applications, and migrating more than 250 applications. The company will now use only Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud for all its operations.
"By moving all of our systems to the cloud, we're ensuring that our franchisees have up-to-the-minute access to the latest innovations, saving time and money while providing industry-leading distribution and digital systems throughout the competitive hotel booking journey," said Brian Kirkland, CIO for Choice Hotels.
Matt Garman, SVP of sales, marketing, and global services at AWS added, "Choice Hotels leaned in big and early on the cloud, which helped them innovate, scale, pivot, and become a more sustainable business over the last five years. The hotel company has a cloud-first mindset that permeates every part of their business from improved operations to extraordinary customer service, and we're excited to see what they do next."