Discovers hybrid cloud journey pays off [Video]

The financial services company has taken a containerized approach to achieve agility and flexibility with its workloads, while exploring the long-term benefits of generative AI.

Credit: Jason Strle / Discover Financial Services

Discover Financial Services has moved aggressively to the cloud in 2024 with a migration strategy focused on retaining hybrid flexibility and making the most of cloud elasticity.

EVP and CIO Jason Strle, who joined Discover 18 months ago after CIO and CTO roles at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase & Co., has opted to migrate mission-critical workloads using Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. Moving these containerized workloads to AWS offers Discover greater flexibility and agility to handle the spikes and dips of seasonal consumer spending far more efficiently, he says.

Now that much of the migration is complete, the benefits of cloud elasticity have “paid off,” Strle says.

Discover’s implementation is unique in that it operates its OpenShift platform in AWS virtual private clouds (VPC) …