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 Millennium Group Corporation (Asia) and Siam Commercial Bank (SCB). ALPHA X Provide a comprehensive array of Information Technology operation, Data Center, Digital Business and Call Center for companies within their group and focuses on automotive retail business.

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

ALPHA X operates on-premises IT infrastructure while ensuring compliance with SCB strict security and compliance standards. To avoid heavy capital expenses from upgrading its on-prem security, the company sought a cost-effective, secure cloud solution to manage its data, applications, and workloads.

Key challenges included:

  • Security risks in traffic transmission and multi-layered defense (physical, network, application).
  • Frequent network disruptions affect daily operations.
  • Stringent compliance requirements and the need for robust disaster recovery.
  • Dependency on hardware and storage vendors causes critical application disruptions.
  • High costs due to underutilized applications and databases running briefly each month.

The Migration of Applications

MSC’s team of certified cloud experts assessed ALPHA X existing loan application environment and designed a comprehensive migration plan. This plan covered the design and implementation of an AWS Landing Zone and a strong security framework to meet compliance and operational requirements.

MSC formulated a migration strategy to Replatform the loan applications and ensure they run optimally in the AWS environment. The following approach was adopted to achieve ALPHA X objectives:

  • Cloud Migration: Utilized AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to perform live migration of on-premises virtual machine workloads to the AWS Cloud. In collaboration with MSC, ALPHA X successfully transitioned its loan application from an on-premises setup to AWS, focusing on disaster recovery, cost optimization, and maintaining high levels of security and compliance.
  • Architecture Framework:Implemented the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure the environment is secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient across all applications and workloads.
  • Security and Compliance: Deployed multi-layered security controls to maintain compliance with ALPHA X regulatory mandates, ensuring a seamless and secure transition from on-premises to the AWS Cloud.
  • Infrastructure Setup: MSC designed a practical infrastructure architecture using load balancers and optimized resource allocation, which accelerated the software development lifecycle and improved testing efficiency.

Benefit Achieved:

  • Compliance with Industry Standards:
    ALPHA X AWS environment was rigorously aligned with recognized cybersecurity and compliance standards, ensuring adherence to best practices in data management and infrastructure security. The environment was made fully CIS-compliant through the implementation of AWS best practices and continuous monitoring.
  • Enhanced Security Measures:
    The introduction of multi-layered security controls, including multi-factor authentication for user access and robust password management, significantly strengthened ALPHA X security posture. Advanced web application firewalls (WAF) provide strong protection against cyber threats such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
  • Cost Efficiency:
    . By adopting cloud-based reserved instances and optimizing database management, ALPHA X achieved substantial cost savings. Automated data backup and lifecycle management further reduced manual effort, improving operational efficiency and scalability.

Tech Stack

  • Amazon EC2: Compute for workloads and applications
  • Amazon EKS: Container orchestration for scalable microservices
  • Amazon RDS: Managed relational database service
  • Amazon GuardDuty: Continuous threat detection and monitoring
  • AWS Config: Compliance assessment and configuration tracking
  • Amazon CloudWatch: Monitoring and performance insights
  • AWS CloudTrail: Governance, compliance, and audit logging
  • Amazon S3: Scalable object storage for data and backups
  • Amazon VPC: Secure network isolation and control
  • Amazon ELB: Load balancing for application availability
  • Amazon CloudFront: Content delivery network for performance optimization
  • Amazon Route 53: Domain name and DNS management