ALPHA X to Drive Digital Transformation for Cloud Migration to Enhance Performance and Security

 

About ALPHA X

ALPHA X is a subsidiary and joint venture company under Millanium Corporation Group (MGC-Asia) and SCB. ALPHA X Provide a comprehensive array of Information Technology operation, Data Center, Digital Business and Call Center for companies within group and focus on automotive retail business.

Navigating ALPHA X’s Cloud Migration, Security, and Infrastructure Optimization Challenges

ALPHA X operated on-premises IT infrastructure but needed to comply with SCB’s strict security and compliance standards. To avoid heavy capital expenses on upgrading on-prem security, the company sought a cost-effective, secure cloud solution to manage data, applications, and workloads.

Key challenges included:

  • Security risks in traffic transmission and multi-layered defense (physical, network, application).
  • Frequent network disruptions affecting operations.
  • Stringent compliance and the need for strong disaster recovery.
  • Dependency on hardware/storage vendors causing critical app disruptions.
  • High costs from underutilized applications and databases running briefly each month

The Migration of Applications

MSC’s team of certified cloud expert assessed ALPHA X’s Loan Application existing environment and designed a complete migration plan for ALPHA X loan application. It cover design and implementation of AWS Landing zone and security.

We formulated a migration strategy for replatform the load applications and running them optimally in the AWS environment. Following was the approach adhered to for achieving ALPHA X’s said objectives.

  • Used cloud endure to live migration vm workload on-premises to AWS Cloud. In collaboration with MSC, ALPHA X transitioned its loan application from an on-premises setup to the AWS cloud, focusing on disaster recovery, cost optimization, and maintaining high security and compliance standards.
  • Implemented AWS Well-architected frameworks to ensure that architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads.
  • Implemented multi-layer security and maintain the security and compliance mandates of ALPHA X’s regulator sought a seamless transition of its applications from on-premises to AWS cloud.
  • Infrastructure Setup: MSC devised a practical infrastructure setup, utilizing load balancers and optimizing resource allocation, thereby enabling a faster software development lifecycle and effective testing environments.

Benefit Achieved:

  • Compliance with Industry Standards: ALPHA X’s cloud environment was rigorously aligned with recognized cybersecurity standards, ensuring that best practices were followed in data management and infrastructure security.The AWS environment of ALPHA X was made fully compliant to CIS standards by following all the best practices.
  • Enhanced Security Measures: The implementation of multi-layer security measures, including two-factor authentication for user access and best practices for password management, significantly bolstered the security framework. The use of advanced web application firewalls contributed to a robust defense against various cyber threats such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
  • Cost Efficiency: By adopting cloud-based reserved computing capacities and optimizing the management of databases, ALPHA X achieved substantial savings. The introduction of automated data backup processes further reduced the need for manual intervention, enhancing operational efficiency.

Tech Stack

  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon EKS
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon GuardDuty
  • AWS Config
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS S3
  • Amazon VPC
  • Amazon ELB
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon Route 53