A global digital leader needed support modernising, scaling, and securing their cloud infrastructure. We automated provisioning across AWS and Azure, cut deployment times by up to 70%, and strengthened security, monitoring, and disaster recovery. The result was faster delivery, improved resilience, and a cloud foundation built for long-term growth.

Challenges & Limitations

Our client, a global enterprise, was facing several operational and technical limitations in their cloud infrastructure and deployment practices:

• Manual provisioning of AWS environments led to inconsistent configurations and high operational overhead
• Lack of standardisation and automation across AWS and Azure platforms slowed down service delivery
• Disparate deployment pipelines and weak secrets management introduced security and compliance risks
• Disaster recovery (DR) procedures were inconsistent, with unclear backup windows and RTO/RPO alignment
• Monitoring and performance tuning lacked consistency, leading to extended recovery times and suboptimal system reliability

Solutions & Improvements

To address these challenges, our team implemented a comprehensive DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) transformation:

• Automated infrastructure provisioning across AWS and Azure
• Migrated key workloads to Aurora Serverless v2 for enhanced performance and cost efficiency
• Enhanced CI/CD pipelines with integrated security and quality checks
• Centralised secrets management with automated rotation
• Standardised and tested disaster recovery processes across critical services
• Secured and automated Kubernetes deployments using best-practice configurations
• Strengthened monitoring and compliance to support audit readiness

The Result

The initiative delivered significant operational, technical, and business benefits:

• Provisioning Efficiency: Reduced manual cloud provisioning effort by over 80%, accelerating time-to-value
• Deployment Speed: Decreased deployment times by 70%, improving release velocity and service consistency
• System Stability: Improved workload resilience and reduced downtime through infrastructure standardisation and DR readiness
• Security Posture: Achieved zero critical findings in multiple security audits with proactive secret management and policy enforcement
• Performance Gains: Reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) by 40% through enhanced observability and proactive performance tuning
• Tooling Enablement: Delivered reusable DevOps tooling and frameworks that streamlined operations and reduced on-call load

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