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Colibri Digital are experts in ensuring your success on AWS, regardless of if this is your first foray into cloud computing, or if your organisation are already running a number of production workloads.

We help you navigate the complete set of AWS infrastructure service, and leverage our extensive industry experience to help shape your cloud engagement strategy.

As an AWS Premier Tier Partner, we have time and again demonstrated that we have the capabilities necessary to build, deploy and manage complex cloud architectures on AWS.

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Success
stories

Our work speaks for itself, 
but our clients say it even better.

"With a reliable, scalable and secure AWS platform, we can deliver innovative and improved services to our train operating companies and travelling passengers, helping to make Britain’s railways better."

John Backway
Head of Central Back Office, Rail Delivery Group

Colibri worked with Jaguar Land Rover to build a connected car platform using advanced AWS services to deliver real-time data directly to JLR.

9 months
Project duration
+ 250 million
Data transactions captured daily
Jaguar Land Rover
Predictive data analytics

Colibri worked with Nomo Fintech to build a robust architecture that could scale with their growth and adapt to the ever-changing challenges in the fintech landscape.

+6 seconds
Data transparency lead time
+20
Headcount in the data team
Nomo Fintech
Data architecture project

A Trusted Gen AI Partner

Colibri Digital is proud to be one of just 50 companies in Europe recognised by AWS for excellence in generative AI.

Earning the AWS Generative AI Services competency underscores our ability to not only harness the limitless potential of Gen AI but to apply it creatively and strategically across industries.

We're committed to building secure, impactful AI solutions for our clients to deliver:

1. Tailored solutions for your unique challenges.

2. Industry-leading security and responsible AI frameworks.

3. Ongoing innovation to maximise business value.

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Accelerate your cloud journey

We're trusted by leading enterprises to deliver complex AWS projects on time and within budget, combining deep technical knowledge with creative problem-solving to address unique business challenges.

From initial consultation to ongoing optimisation, we're with you every step of the way.

Cloud strategy and migration

Seamlessly transition to AWS with minimal disruption, leveraging best practices for architecture, security and cost optimisation.

Application modernisation

Refactor and replatform applications to take full advantage of AWS services, enhancing performance and agility

Data and analytics

Build robust data lakes and real-time analytics platforms using AWS-native tools, unlocking actionable insights.

Generative AI solutions

As one of only 50 AWS-recognised Gen AI specialists in Europe, we design and deploy AI solutions that drive innovation and efficiency.

"At Colibri Digital, our mission is to make the cloud work harder for our clients. We combine deep AWS expertise with a pragmatic approach to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-optimised solutions, whether it's rearchitecting legacy systems or launching AI-powered innovations. We're proud to be a Premier Tier Partner, helping organisations turn cloud strategy into measurable success.”

Charlie Saunders
AWS Business Development Director

Success stories

B2B
B2B

Leading the AI revolution: A blueprint for realtime data

Colibri Digital partnered with Nomo Fintech to pioneer AI-driven fintech revolution. Together, we built a serverless data lake which resulted in real-time data processing, enhanced analytics, agility for innovative projects and more.

Consultancy
Consultancy

Top Tier Consultancy: Big Data Strategy and Architecture Vision

In 2015, a top-tier consultancy partnered with Colibri Digital to grow its London-based Big Data division. Colibri supported the company’s Fortune 500 clients on key initiatives, including retail analytics, IoT-driven maintenance for semiconductor manufacturing, and power supply optimisation across Europe.

Healthcare
Healthcare

Cloud-Native Expertise Ships Somark's Latest Product

Somark, a pharma-tech company, has spent the past two years trying to deliver an Azure cloud-native application to its clients in production. Colibri was approached to perform an architecture and security review and help push the application over the line.

Business Services
Business Services

Cloud Data Warehouse Improves Conversion Rates and Sales Intelligence

Regus, a leading multinational provider of white-label office space, needed a new way to track the conversion of sales leads to optimise its sales pipeline. Currently, the sales process is tracked across a multitude of in-house and third-party hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) system, making it incredibly difficult to trace an enquiry from source to conversion.

Financial Services
Financial Services

Dynamic Data Ingestion Offers Market-Leading Pricing Intelligence

Hiscox, a leading provider and underwriter of specialist insurance services, wanted a mechanism for performing real-time price comparison and market intelligence against their competitors in the UK market.

Energy
Energy

Cloud and Big Data Delivery Expertise Accelerates Delivery of New Analytics Platform

Colibri worked with Shell, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, to deliver an Azure advanced analytics stack for its global lubricants business. Shell was struggling to design a solution capable of processing vast quantities of dirty data from various sources.

Education
Education

Ed-Tech Start-Up Unlocks New Strategies for Data-Driven User Engagement

Mana, a London-based ed-tech startup, was stepping into the next phase of its growth journey. The client's platform provides a curated directory of experts, which mainly includes tech leaders, career advisors, lifestyle gurus, and teachers. It allows users to bring content from YouTube, Instagram, Udemy, TikTok, and other platforms into a portfolio for their followers.

Financial Services
Financial Services

Cloud Architecture Redesign Ships New Digital Banking App for a Tier 1 European Investment Bank

The client, a leading Tier 1 European investment and retail bank, was creating a new digital banking app. With its enormous client base and highly sensitive data, the app’s backend was complex and required careful planning from a DevSecOps standpoint.

Hospitality
Hospitality

Enhancing Digital Services with AWS

Center Parcs UK and Ireland, a leading provider of family forest retreats, needed to upgrade its digital services strategy to improve online customer experiences while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

Hospitality
Hospitality

Strengthening Cloud Security with Root Login Monitoring

Center Parcs UK and Ireland, renowned for its family-friendly forest retreats, sought to improve the security of its AWS environment to meet stringent industry standards and ensure operational integrity.

Hospitality
Hospitality

Simplifying Security with Auth0 Migration

Center Parcs UK and Ireland, known for its family-friendly forest retreats, required an upgraded identity management solution to enhance security and meet growing demands.

Energy
Energy

Spanish Power Grid Predicts Outages with AWS

Spanish Power Grid provides critical energy and utilities for the nation. The variation in geography and weather across Spain meant that power generators needed to provide stable output in a wide range of conditions, creating complex operational requirements for the company. Outages were highly undesirable and penalised by the hour by the national regulator.

Financial Services
Financial Services

Azure Big Data Expertise Ships New Fraud Detection Platform

Ageas, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, processes an enormous number of daily requests for insurance quotes as well as underwriting approvals. Sometimes exceeding 5,000 requests per second, each of these requests needs to be screened by increasingly sophisticated algorithms to ensure validity and detect potential cases of insurance fraud.

Business Services
Business Services

Cloud Native Data Warehouse Delivers Cutting Edge Advertising Insights to the NHS

Fendix Media, a digital media agency, prides itself on offering unrivalled digital access to the NHS, assisting trusts with direct revenue generation through the placement of targeted adverts across the NHS intranet. Over the last couple of years, Fendix Media have grown rapidly and now offers digital media products to almost every major NHS trust in the UK.

Financial Services
Financial Services

New Serverless Data Analytics Platform

BB2, a startup financial firm based in London, had built a new digital bank on AWS using cloud-native technology, real-time streaming data feeds, and serverless components. Creativity and innovation have always been the cornerstone of BB2’s business model, and the bank is keen to reinforce this value through innovative digital and electronic banking services.

Developer Tools
Developer Tools

Azure Native Data and Machine Learning Architecture Accelerates Growth

Digital Taxonomy's client base continues to grow, rapidly attracting several large blue-chip enterprise clients, each bringing their complex requirements. Colibri Digital were approached to undertake this review, and to provide advice, designs, and implement solutions to ensure Digital Taxonomy were optimally positioned for their next phase of growth.

Hospitality
Hospitality

Overhauling Backup Technology to Future-proof a Leading Leisure Business

Center Parcs continues to grow and evolve, but its Arcserve tape backup solution had become outdated. They were costly, slow to restore from, and unable to meet the demands of a growing dataset.

Transportation
Transportation

Building a Cloud-Native Car Platform for Secure, Accessible Data

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a leading British manufacturer of luxury and sport utility vehicles, designs and develops vehicles under the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. To gain deeper insights from vehicle data and enhance both efficiency and competitiveness, JLR partnered with Colibri to design and build a tailored data platform capable of delivering actionable intelligence.

Transportation
Transportation

Hosting and Support Solutions for Eurostar to Reduce Downtime and Mitigate Risk

Since launching in 1994, Eurostar has transported over 150 million passengers, moving thousands beneath the Channel each day. To support its mobile booking and overbooking applications, Eurostar needed reliable hosting and support solutions.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Secures Live Sales Management (LSM) Platform

Rail Settlement Plan Limited (RSP) delivers essential services such as ticketing, travel information, and refund processing on behalf of its member companies. The Live Sales Management (LSM) platform (hosted on AWS and managed by Colibri) supports National Rail’s Ticket on Departure service, enabling customers to purchase tickets online or via third parties and collect them at their convenience.

Transportation
Transportation

Improving AWS Infrastructure for the National Rail Network

The NRE Modernisation (NREM) project, delivered in partnership with Train Information Services Limited (TISL), involved the redesign, build, and deployment of the AWS infrastructure supporting the latest version of the National Rail Enquiries (NRE) applications. NRE, operated by RDG, provides essential information on train times, routes, and fares for passengers across the UK rail network.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Guarantees Secure Customer Access to Essential Ticketing Platform

The Live Sales Management (LSM) service is a key component of the Ticket on Departure feature offered by National Rail, part of the Rail Delivery Group. It enables customers to purchase tickets online or via third parties in advance and collect them at their convenience. Managed by Colibri, LSM plays a vital role in improving both customer convenience and operational efficiency.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Implements New Security Features for Cloud Services

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) unites Britain’s railway operators under a single organisation, aiming to deliver meaningful improvements in the customer experience. Colibri hosts several AWS-based services for RDG, but historically, each required separate credentials per user, creating both administrative complexity and security challenges.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Delivers an Improved Service Desk Experience for RDG’s Rail Data Marketplace

Over the past decade, Colibri has partnered closely with the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to deliver essential services such as ticketing, travel information, and refund processing. This latest collaboration supports RDG’s Rail Data Marketplace (RDM), with Colibri providing service management capabilities.

Transportation
Transportation

New Analytics Platform to Track Costs and Performance of Business-Critical AWS Workloads

Colibri has built a strong, long-standing partnership with Rail Delivery Group (RDG), supporting the AWS-hosted applications and services that power its digital solutions. Most recently, Colibri deployed a new analytics platform to monitor the performance and cost-efficiency of these critical AWS services, ensuring they remain optimised, reliable, and aligned with RDG’s strategic goals.

Transportation
Transportation

Transforming Legacy Ticketing Systems to Deliver Cloud-Based Digital Services

As the industry moves towards digital, customer-first experiences, Rail Delivery Group (RDG) partnered with Colibri to modernise its legacy infrastructure and deliver cloud-ready solutions fit for the future.

Transportation
Transportation

Enabling Data Processing and Real-Time Customer Access with a Cloud-Based System

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) brings together all the UK’s passenger and freight rail companies, High Speed 2, and Network Rail to work towards a shared goal: delivering a better railway for customers across Great Britain. As part of a recent initiative, RDG aimed to help National Rail Enquiries provide passengers with more accurate, real-time train location information.

Transportation
Transportation

An AWS Solution that Improves Connectivity and Enhances the Customer Experience

The Rail Delivery Group's (RDG) customers were facing performance issues with the National Reservation System (NRS) due to latency caused by the legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Enables AWS Cost Savings and the Flexibility to Meet Demands

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) operates a large AWS estate managed by Colibri. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced passenger numbers and falling ticket revenue meant cost control became a top priority. With existing Reserved Instance (RI) plans nearing expiration, RDG saw an opportunity to reassess their approach and explore AWS's newer Cost Saving Plans to ensure long-term value.

Transportation
Transportation

Colibri Migrates RDG's Legacy Database to a New Cloud-Native Digital Architecture

Rail Delivery Group (RDG) provides the essential services and support needed to help its members succeed, from national ticketing and reservations to information systems for passengers and staff. A key part of this is the Live Sales Management (LSM) database, which has long been hosted on AWS EC2 instances. While the system performed well, it presented limitations during failure events and required ongoing manual management.

Our experience

Colibri Digital's team of engineers, architects and developers have achieved some of Amazon's highest levels of certification, including the Certified Solutions Architect Professional and Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, which means you will be working with a team that has demonstrated the highest level of skill and expertise when using AWS.

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Head of Data Practice

Data and analytics modernisation

Turning raw data into actionable, competitive insight

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Head of Cloud Engineering

Enterprise modernisation

Modernise with purpose. Transform with data. Scale with AI

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Head of AI and Data Science

Enterprise AI

Intelligent solutions built for real-world business impact

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Head of Managed Services

Cloud services

Empowering cloud-first operations with confidence

Everything you need to know about AWS

Frequently asked questions

  • What is an AWS Premier Tier Partner?

    ‍An AWS Premier Tier Partner is one of the most experienced and trusted partners in the AWS ecosystem. These partners have demonstrated outstanding expertise and a consistent track record of helping businesses design, build, migrate, and manage their workloads on AWS. Achieving Premier Tier status means the partner has undergone thorough assessments and proven their ability to deliver excellent solutions tailored to your unique business needs.

  • What services do AWS Premier Tier Partners provide?

    AWS Premier Tier Partners offer a wide range of specialised services designed to help your organisation fully benefit from AWS. These include:

    1. Cloud Strategy & Consulting: Personalised advice and planning for your cloud journey.

    2. Architecting & Implementation: Expert design and deployment of scalable, secure AWS environments.

    3. Application Modernisation: Updating legacy applications using modern, cloud-native technologies.

    4. Managed Services & Ongoing Support: Continuous monitoring, optimisation, and responsive 24/7 support.

    5. Data & Analytics: Solutions to help you unlock valuable insights from your data.

    6. DevOps & Automation: Efficient development processes with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and agile methodologies.

  • What industries benefit the most from working with an AWS Partner?

    All industries can benefit from partnering with an AWS expert. Whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, media, education, or another sector, an AWS Partner can help tackle your specific industry challenges. From improving data security and regulatory compliance to optimising operations and enhancing customer experiences, AWS Partners ensure that your unique industry requirements are met with practical solutions.

  • What is the AWS Generative AI Services competency?

    ‍The AWS Generative AI Services Competency identifies AWS Partners specialising in helping businesses effectively implement generative AI technologies. These partners can assist you in using powerful AI models that generate valuable content such as text, images, or code. Working with a partner holding this competency gives you a trusted guide to responsibly integrating advanced AI capabilities into your applications, boosting innovation and driving meaningful business outcomes.

  • How can I choose the right AWS Partner for my project?

    ‍Choosing the right AWS Partner is about finding a trusted collaborator who understands and aligns with your business goals. Consider the following:

    1. Expertise & Experience: Look for partners with relevant competencies, certifications, and successful case studies in your industry.

    2. Growth Alignment: Ensure they can support your current needs and scale with your future business requirements.

    3. Track Record: Seek testimonials, customer references, and success stories that reflect reliability and quality.

    4. Collaboration & Cultural Fit: Choose a partner who prioritises clear communication, shared values, and genuine collaboration.

    5. Comprehensive Support: Confirm that your partner can offer strong ongoing support and managed services to sustain long-term success.

Ready to elevate your business with AI, big data, and cloud-native solutions?

Charlie Saunders
AWS data & AI expert

I specialise in helping businesses unlock scalable growth using data and AI to stay ahead of the competition.

What you’ll gain from this 30-minute 1:1 consultation:
  • Assess your AI readiness: Understand where your business stands in its AI journey.
  • Tailored use cases: Identify the most impactful AI applications for your unique needs.
  • Clear actionable roadmap: Get a personalised plan to simplify the AI adoption process and guide you to success.
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