Auto Trader is currently in the middle of a journey migrating all apps and services from two dedicated data centres to the Public cloud; this talk will cover a brief synopsis of what we do, the need to move to the public cloud, and will give a 'warts n all' coverage of what worked and what didn't.

Dave Whyte is an Operations Squad Lead at Auto Trader UK. Auto Trader is the largest digital automotive marketplace in the UK. Over the last 13 years, Dave has played a key part in continually evolving IT Operations department which has resulted in enviable levels of stability, availability and performance. This has been achieved through the practical implementation of ITIL processes and adapting to ever increasing organizational agility.

Russell Warman is Head of Infrastructure and Operations at Auto Trader, the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace. He leads the team charged with the capacity and performance of one the UK's busiest websites -autotrader.co.uk, which sits at the heart of the UK's vehicle buying process. The team have a cloud native approach to enable our developers to make more frequent changes safely and are increasingly looking at public cloud services to continuously improve.

Dave Whyte, Operations Squad Lead, Auto Trader

Russell Warman, Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Auto Trader