Standardizing and Scaling Enterprise AWS Resource Provisioning with Automated CI/CD and Serverless Architecture
Short Description
A global pharmaceutical enterprise partnered with UsefulBI to transform AWS resource provisioning through automation-first CI/CD pipelines and a serverless architecture. The solution enhanced deployment speed, strengthened governance, improved reliability, and significantly reduced manual effort for the central cloud platform team.
Customer Problem
As cloud adoption accelerated across the organization, the central cloud platform team struggled to provision AWS resources efficiently at enterprise scale.
Key challenges included:
- Manual and inconsistent provisioning processes
- Delays in environment setup across teams
- Reliability and configuration inconsistencies
- Security and governance risks
- An internally developed “self-service shopping cart” model that failed to meet scalability and performance needs
The organization required a standardized, secure, and scalable provisioning framework that could support rapid AWS adoption while maintaining governance and operational excellence.
Solution
UsefulBI designed and implemented a standardized, automation-first AWS provisioning framework aligned with DevOps best practices.
Core Solution Components:
- CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application changes
- Automated build, test, and deployment workflows
- Serverless architecture to improve scalability and cost efficiency
- AWS-native services to orchestrate provisioning and enforce governance
- Integrated monitoring and logging for real-time visibility
The solution enabled infrastructure provisioning through automated pipelines, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and low-risk releases across environments.
Architectural Approach:
- Infrastructure managed via CI/CD pipelines
- Serverless services orchestrating provisioning workflows
- Built-in security controls embedded directly into deployment pipelines
- Automated monitoring and logging for continuous visibility
By embedding governance and security directly into automation workflows, the platform eliminated manual bottlenecks while ensuring compliance and operational reliability.
Benefits / Results
The new provisioning framework delivered measurable operational improvements:
- Faster and more consistent AWS resource provisioning
- Reduced manual intervention and provisioning errors
- Improved deployment reliability across environments
- Stronger security and governance through standardized automation
- Enhanced visibility through integrated monitoring and logging
- Lower operational overhead for the cloud platform team
The solution empowered the enterprise to scale AWS adoption confidently while maintaining performance, security, and governance standards.
