10k parcels a day - How Swiss Post controls sorting from the cloud (BIZ301)
summary
Swiss Post moves the sorting decision system to the cloud and now routes ~300,000 parcels/day (pilot hit 10k, 6M processed so far) using containerised .NET 8 services on Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL serverless with failover on Amazon Aurora, an MQTT layer backed by EMQX/MQTT and MongoDB Atlas for document data. Teams report 5,000 deployments, average commit-to-prod ~1.5 days, zero maintenance windows, one major rollback took 1.5 hours, and an estimated 90% cut in infrastructure costs once migration completes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to the project
- 2:07Parcel sorting operations
- 6:57Architectural strategy
- 11:57AWS platform overview
- 13:58AWS services in practice
- 22:55Cloud foundation platform
- 27:22Governance and adoption
- 31:02Future challenges
- 33:27Implementation details
- 41:07Conclusions and business impact
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