AWS Migration

About the customer

The Customer is a Luxembourgish Regulatory Institute responsible for supervising and ensuring the stability, integrity, and compliance of a national key workload.

The challenge

The Luxembourgish Regulatory Institute faced resilience and cost effectiveness challenges in 2024 for one of their key workloads which is serving information to national economic operators.

The project

Arηs Group partnered with the Luxembourgish Regulatory Institute to address these challenges by focusing on a secure and compliant AWS Landing Zone. This involved:

• Deploy the AWS Landing Zone

  Arηs Group advised on the optimal architecture for the Landing Zone, selecting appropriate AWS services and products to meet the resilience requirements.

• Migration of workloads

  Arηs Group migrated and deployed a key workload in AWS. This implementation leveraged Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Operating the AWS Landing Zone and workloads

  As a Managed Service Provider, Arηs Group took on the responsibility of operating the migrated key workload. This ongoing management ensured the stability, security, compliance.

Project Solution

Key Landing Zone Components & Capabilities:

While the case study details various components of the Landing Zone itself, the underlying AWS Services provide a secure and scalable foundation. Key aspects of the Landing Zone that enabled this are:

• 01.

  Landing Zone Deployment

  Deployed a secure, multi-account AWS Landing Zone to establish a governed cloud environment with embedded baseline security controls, network configurations, and account structures.

• 02.

  Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Automation

  Leveraged Infrastructure as Code to automate the deployment and configuration of Landing Zone components, ensuring consistent environments and reducing manual configuration errors.

• 03.

  Scalability and High Availability

  Designed the Landing Zone to support scalable and highly available workloads using multi-AZ deployments and AWS services like Route 53, RDS, and ECS.

• 04.

  Support and Governance

  Provided continuous support to maintain, monitorthe workload ensuring alignment with organizational policies through proactive security monitoring and security updates.

Project Results

By focusing on migrating a key workload to AWS, Arηs Group enabled the Luxembourgish Regulatory Institute to:

1. Establish a controlled and compliant environment for handling sensitive data in the AWS Cloud which can be operated at-scale
2. Automate the provisioning of Accounts within the Landing zone for Business Units to accelerate time-to-market
3. Build-In resilience leveraging AWS Services and a multi-AZ model for transversal services
4. Benefit from ongoing operational support, ensuring the continued security and stability of their AWS environment while leveraging cloud-native technologies to reduce Opex

Success factors

Arηs Group's expertise in designing, migrating, and operating AWS Landing Zones, combined with their understanding of the regulatory industry's stringent requirements, were crucial to the success of this project. Their ability to provide end-to-end services, from initial architecture design to ongoing managed services, ensured a secure and robust foundation for the Luxembourgish Regulatory Institute.