Meet Trianz at AWS re:Invent 2025 Register Now

Accelerating Disaster Recovery with CI/CD for a Top P&C Insurer
Customer Success Story

Accelerating Disaster Recovery with CI/CD for a Top P&C Insurer

Accelerating Disaster Recovery with CI/CD for a Top P&C Insurer

Client

A renowned Property & Casualty (P&C) insurer enhancing its cloud foundation with reusable infrastructure templates and disaster recovery patterns to ensure resilience, scalability, and secure operations.

Business Challenge

  • Inconsistent DR Readiness: Application teams lacked standardized, reusable frameworks to implement disaster recovery for AWS services.
  • IAM Credential Rotations: Frequent disruptions occurred due to expiring IAM credentials, affecting deployment continuity.
  • Manual Resource Setup: High-effort configurations slowed time to market and introduced deployment errors.
  • Siloed Environments: Applications had tight coupling to shared infrastructure, making independent scaling difficult.

Approach

Trianz developed reusable, automation-driven patterns to industrialize disaster recovery across the enterprise cloud environment:

  • Reusable CDK Library Creation: Built standardized infrastructure-as-code templates using AWS CDK for S3 with CRR, MRAP, and IAM.
  • Multi-Region Resiliency: Enabled Active-Active and Active-Passive replication strategies to support DR tiers across business units.
  • CloudForge Offerings: Published two modular DR components to an internal marketplace for self-service adoption.
  • IAM Hardening: Introduced trusted policies to bypass secret expiration bottlenecks, improving continuity in 90-day deployment cycles.
  • S3 + RDS DR Templates: Developed preconfigured patterns for S3 and Amazon RDS with cross-region support and role-based access.
  • CI/CD Enablement: Integrated reusable libraries into CI/CD workflows for automated, consistent infrastructure deployment.
  • IAM Access Patterns: Standardized shared IAM user strategies to reduce friction and improve secret management.
  • Containerized Platform: Adopted ECS Fargate to deploy DR control plane apps with minimal operational overhead.
  • Automated Monitoring: Leveraged CloudWatch for DR readiness tracking and audit compliance reporting.
  • Cross-Team Enablement: Trained internal squads to implement DR patterns independently using the newly created modules.

This agentic model transformed the end-to-end workflow from a linear, human-dependent process into a self-optimizing system capable of executing tasks autonomously while maintaining full regulatory compliance and traceability.

Technology Components

Cloud Services
Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Amazon S3 AWS Lambda AWS IAM Amazon Secrets Manager Amazon ECS (Fargate) Amazon SNS Amazon KMS Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS VPC
Application Stack
Django Python TypeScript AWS CDK (CFTs)
Infrastructure Tools
Amazon Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 Cost Explorer Trusted Advisor AWS Pricing Calculator

Transformational Effects

  • Standardized DR Frameworks: Enabled faster, repeatable deployments of disaster recovery infrastructure across application teams
  • Increased Deployment Agility: Reduced IAM credential issues and streamlined onboarding of new teams
  • Reusable Infrastructure Templates: Empowered engineers with plug-and-play components via internal marketplace
  • Improved Cost Visibility: TCO analysis guided right-sized provisioning and long-term cost predictability
  • Improved User Experience: Web dashboards and real-time alerts enhanced decision-making and productivity.
  • Decoupled Workloads: Product squads achieved independence from shared buckets and could evolve DR logic freely

Ready to Transform Your Data Platform?

Let's discuss how we can help you build a modern data architecture that drives business value

By submitting your information, you agree to our revised  Privacy Statement.