Case Study - AWS MIGRATION CLOUD PLATFORM (O&G)

CloudHedge Technologies
#201, AG Trade Centre, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021 Maharashtra INDIA
Phone: +91-20-67994020 | http://www.cloudhedge.io
 ABOUT THE CLIENT
Client is an ISV in Global Oil and Gas (O&G) Market. They provide services and consultancy
around their products. They have local presence in several countries and deliver full operational
support and project capabilities on an international level.

THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Before the successful migration effort lead by CloudHedge the client had On-Premise installations of
their product. The product in discussion is a framework for trading the O&G produce in the market
and is considered in the top 10 critical applications for O&G industry. It has multiple
customizations/integrations already in place with various other systems and APIs being used by all
O&G majors.

The client was looking out to offer their Product as a Service instead of license installations. Reason
being, to get more control on their highly customizable framework and channel all the service related
queries to their side to streamline maintenance/support the business around their product.

The client had already spent 18 months on the migration effort before they approached CloudHedge
with little success.

As a matter of fact, they were already using AWS for their infrastructure setup, but it was 90% manual
because of less number of AWS skilled engineers. Another requirement was to make the deployments
on-demand.

With limited in-house knowledge on cloud technologies they also required some training in cloud
automatio, and cloud operations domains.

HOW CLOUDHEDGE HELPED

The technical implementation challenges were obvious to CloudHedge, but we had also anticipated
the challenges we were going face from the operationalization and technical debt perspective.

This project was driven by extreme automation where we had to build meta-automation in some cases
for example automated workflow setup for Jenkins which then were used by the operations teams to
automatically deploy environments. The main reason we had introduced meta automation was

CloudHedge Technologies
#201, AG Trade Centre, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021 Maharashtra INDIA
Phone : +91-20-67994020 | http://www.cloudhedge.io
 because of the technical debt client had already accumulated. Thus, even the operationalization of
the automation was an automated process.

As the client had used good enough time with 80% of the work still in question, CloudHedge executed
the project in aggressive timelines till the Go-Live + Extended support in the hypercare period of 3
months.

First phase was designing the Account Structure (Data Center Architecture) on AWS. We needed to
build a platform that will scale up to 1000+ AWS Accounts in next 3 years. CloudHedge built an
automation for AWS Landing Zones.

First phase included design and automation for high tasks which is as follows:
• Account Structure
• Network
a. Public/Private networks
b. Firewall considerations
c. Remote Access Service
d. VPNs (OpenVPN and IPSec)
• Domain Delegations across AWS accounts
• Automated Jenkins setup (Jenkins is used as a Workflow Manager)
• IDPS setup
• AWS Config setup
• CloudTrail setup
• A parallel thread was started for building knowledge base around their framework and their
existing methods of deployments for further use.
• Initiation of some the framework automation tasks which will converge in next phases.

The Second phase was dedicated to IAM design and automation.

Second Phase included design and automation for high tasks which is as follows:

• IAM Users and Group for Humans

• IAM Roles for Humans
a. Automatically role assumptions across accounts according to privileges
• IAM Profiles
• IAM roles for machines
• AWS KMS considerations
• AD Integrations and considerations

The third phase was dedicated to design and automate deployment of framework
(Oracle/JAVA/Wildfly/KeyCloak). There were few high-level tasks in this phase which were started
parallelly from phase one.

Third Phase included design and automation for high tasks:

• Oracle RDS Multi AZ Automation

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 • Automation restoration of on-premise Oracle DB to RDS
• Application automation along with configurations
• Auto healing setups
• Application of encryption for all the data at rest
• JIRA integrations
• DataDog Integrations
• TrendMicro Integrations

In the last phase, CloudHedge helped in operationalizing the setup by DataDog and TrendMicro
dashboards along with PagerDuty integrations. CloudHedge also helped in configuring PagerDuty and
setting up policies for support.

THE BENEFITS
As the platform solution was thoroughly tested and production ready, rolling it to their customers
went as per planned.

The other benefits that came out of building a cloud platform were:
● The solution was made easy to deploy even without highly skilled personals.
● Thorough access level granularity.
● Automated issues reporting and assignment.
● Easy, fast and production ready deployments.
● Automated setups of monitoring solutions
● Easy UI access to logs and without repetitive login to different systems to access logs. In fact, the
need to login to systems was almost eliminated except for a few critical issues.
● Cloud automation helped in the overall reduction in cost.

CloudHedge Technologies
#201, AG Trade Centre, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021 Maharashtra INDIA
Phone : +91-20-67994020 | http://www.cloudhedge.io
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CloudHedge Technologies
#201, AG Trade Centre, Ramnagar Colony, Bavdhan, Pune 411021 Maharashtra INDIA
Phone : +91-20-67994020 | http://www.cloudhedge.io