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.

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
• Decoupled Workloads: Product squads achieved independence from shared buckets and could evolve DR logic freely