Business need
A leading global credit solutions company was using a Google Cloud Platform (GCP)-based cloud-native data management platform for sensitive, large-scale credit operations. However, as the business expanded, Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance was becoming increasingly challenging on GCP, particularly for US credit workloads. What’s more, different business units were operating in silos, which impacted downstream analytics—including cross-selling and upselling.
The company wanted to create a cloud-agnostic solution enablement platform which would empower users across the enterprise to unify, manage, analyze, and govern data assets efficiently. To achieve this, the company set out to extend its existing platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS) while preserving the best-in-class standards of performance, security, and scalability already established on GCP.
Key business requirements:
- Replicate the GCP-based platform’s capabilities on AWS and enable seamless operations across both cloud ecosystems using a unified codebase
- Maintain consistent performance, scalability, and reliability across both cloud environments
- Ensure secure onboarding of US-based credit data workloads on AWS
- Strengthen compliance, encryption, and isolation standards for credit and identity data
- Unify fragmented data silos and create an up to date 360-degree customer view
- Increase enterprise-wide adoption of the data platform to drive growth and profitability
Extend a mission-critical data management platform from GCP to AWS, without compromising security, performance, or operational consistency of petabyte-scale credit data workloads.
Solution
Partnering with the client, Impetus designed and implemented a fully interoperable AWS-based version of their data management platform, ensuring seamless dual-cloud operations across AWS and GCP through a unified architecture and codebase.
The solution focused on re-architecting core services using AWS-native components while minimizing data movement risks and maintaining parity in governance, security, and operational workflows.
Key highlights:
- Dual-cloud platform architecture: Refactored platform components to break silos and operate seamlessly across AWS and GCP using a unified codebase
- Petabyte-scale data lake: Built a large-scale AWS-native data lake on Amazon S3 with multi-account support to securely segregate data types and workloads
- Data processing at scale: Enabled elastic, high-performance data processing through Amazon EMR
- Metadata management: Migrated PostgreSQL workloads to Amazon RDS to improve scalability, availability, and manageability
- Container orchestration: Adopted Amazon EKS to enable scalable, production-grade containerized workloads
- Security & compliance: Implemented default encryption at rest during onboarding using AWS KMS and automated S3 provisioning with SSE-KMS
- Seamless integrations: Enabled connectivity with several enterprise services including Vault, Splunk, Artifactory, and secure file transfer utilities
Fig.1: High-level architecture of the solution enablement platform
Unlocked scalable, secure platform capabilities through a unified architecture—accelerating customer onboarding, driving revenue growth, and strengthening governance.
Impact
Impetus enabled the credit solutions company to scale its data management platform through a unified architecture—consolidating fragmented data silos, reducing operational complexity, meeting evolving regulatory requirements, and delivering measurable business value.
Business benefits
- Broader user adoption across the enterprise: Extending the platform to AWS helped increase platform usage across mutliple business units
- Unified customer view: Leveraging a unified codebase across AWS and GCP enabled teams to identify upsell and cross-sell triggers with higher precision
- Faster time-to-market: Dual-cloud capabilities increased scalabability and accelerated onboarding of new business applications and customers
- Enhanced security posture: Automated encryption and onboarding workflows strengthened governance while streamlining compliance
The transition to AWS helped the credit solutions company scale its data management platform in ways previously thought impossible. It soon evolved into a centralized, layered solution enablement platform sitting at the core of the business, powering a new wave of growth and innovation.
