Case Study
Email security products migration to cloud
For a major high-tech client
PROBLEM
Client approached UST for the following:
- Cloud-enable the Client’s Cloud Email Security (CES) Platform
- Migrate the CES to Cloud from on-prem data centers, scale it to support much larger customer base
- End-to-end automation of end-customer onboarding & infrastructure provisioning
- Implement Cloud Security
- Manage and operationalize the CES platform and Cloud infrastructure
SOLUTION
- Created CES Cloud Infrastructure Blueprint with HA multi-region architecture and its implementation on AWS Cloud
- Completely automated the End-Customer Onboarding process – From customer signing-up to provisioning of the resources in Cloud & the management of the infrastructure
- Used Python, Shell scripts & Ansible scripts to do end-to-end automation of the infrastructure provisioning
- Highly scalable DNS infrastructure provisioned in the Cloud environment for CES to work
- Implemented Cloud security in terms of perimeter security, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessments and encryption
- Implemented a myriad of management & monitoring tools to ensure extremely high availability
- A dedicated “Innovation Team” from UST to work with the Customer to define & implement future roadmap of the CES platform
IMPACT
- The project migrated and secured 6.5 Million end users from seven data centers across US and Europe into cloud
- 30% reduction in infrastructure cost
- 60% reduction in infrastructure support cost