Migration of SAAS Smart Carbon Measurement and Management Platform from Azure to AWS

A prominent enterprise-grade SaaS platform specializes in smart carbon measurement and management. It provides comprehensive solutions to track and manage carbon emissions, enabling organizations to efficiently monitor, measure, and reduce their carbon footprint.

Project Requirements:
A leading SaaS provider in carbon management seeks to migrate from Azure to AWS to enhance scalability, security, and performance.

The objective of the project is to migrate the platform’s infrastructure and applications from Azure to AWS, utilizing cloud-native tools and automation. This involves provisioning infrastructure using Terraform, deploying containerized applications via Amazon EKS, and managing the application lifecycle through ArgoCD. All infrastructure and application deployments will follow stringent security best practices.

The migration aims to minimize downtime, optimize costs, and build a robust, scalable environment with full compliance and enhanced operational efficiency.

Scalability and Flexibility Limitations: Existing infrastructure struggled to dynamically scale to meet fluctuating demands. The lack of flexible auto-scaling options led to challenges during peak usage times, causing potential downtime or over-provisioning of resources during off-peak periods.

Cost Management and Optimization: Complex pricing models made cost management a challenge for the Client. Without adequate cost transparency and optimization tools, the platform faced unpredictable costs for compute, networking, and storage resources. The inability to efficiently track and optimize cloud spending, especially during resource-intensive periods, led to overspending.

Security and Compliance Risks: While Existing provider offerings did not fully address the specific regulatory requirements for their enterprise-grade carbon management platform. This created potential compliance gaps and security risks, especially in highly regulated industries.

Performance and Latency Issues: Existing infrastructure caused latency issues in some regions due to inefficient inter-region connectivity and network performance. For Client’s real-time carbon data processing needs, this translated into slower application performance.

Managing Multi-Region and Cross-Region Architecture: Managing multi-region architectures was complex, requiring significant manual intervention and configuration. The platform’s cross-region peering and virtual network setup were cumbersome and lacked the ease of use, Client needed for global scalability.

Security: The migration will prioritize security best practices by implementing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access, encryption at rest and in transit, and network segmentation using VPCs, security groups, and NACLs. Security services such as AWS Shield, WAF, GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub will be integrated for real-time threat detection and incident response. The entire Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup will include embedded security measures, ensuring that every resource deployed is compliant with the organization’s security policies.

Scalability: The architecture is designed to scale seamlessly using Amazon EKS, AWS Auto Scaling, and other native AWS services. The infrastructure will dynamically scale based on workload demands, ensuring that Client’s platform can efficiently handle traffic spikes while optimizing costs. Additionally, the use of multi-region deployments will enable high availability and fault tolerance, ensuring the platform is always responsive, even in case of regional outages.

Automation: Through automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Client’s platform can seamlessly deploy infrastructure for an unlimited number of customers in AWS, ensuring consistency, scalability, and security.

Landing Zone implementation: With AWS Landing Zone, we can establish a secure, scalable, and well-governed multi-account environment on AWS, providing a strong foundation for managing multiple customers’ infrastructure. The Landing Zone automates the setup of essential AWS services, including centralized logging, security controls, and account structuring, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and regulations.

Secrets Management: With AWS Secrets Manager, Client’s platform can securely store and manage sensitive information, such as database credentials, API keys, and access tokens, ensuring that secrets are protected and easily accessible only to authorized applications and users. Secrets are encrypted at rest using AWS KMS, and access is tightly controlled through IAM policies to enforce the principle of least privilege.

Monitoring &  Logging: AWS Managed Grafana and Prometheus are utilized by Client’s platform for monitoring containerized applications, providing a seamless and scalable solution for real-time performance metrics and observability. Additionally, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights is integrated to provide detailed metrics and logs for Amazon EKS clusters, offering visibility into the performance and health of containers and infrastructure.

Scalability and Reliability: The architecture leverages Amazon EKS, Auto Scaling, and multi-region deployments to ensure the platform scales effortlessly with workload demands. This guarantees high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance, even during traffic spikes or regional outages.

Automation: With Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Terrascope can automate the deployment of infrastructure for unlimited customers, ensuring consistent, secure, and scalable environments while reducing manual intervention and operational overhead.

Security: The migration prioritizes robust security with AWS IAM, encryption, and network segmentation, while integrating services like AWS Shield, WAF, GuardDuty, and Security Hub for real-time threat detection. Embedded security measures in the IaC ensure that all resources are compliant and secure, safeguarding sensitive data and minimizing risks.

Operational Efficiency: AWS Secrets Manager and Managed Grafana enable secure, automated management of secrets and real-time monitoring, ensuring proactive issue resolution, improved system reliability, and optimized resource management.

Future Growth Enablement: AWS’s scalable infrastructure supports dynamic resource allocation, enabling Terrascope to handle growing customer workloads and increasing demand without compromising performance or compliance.