Designing a Secure, Kubernetes-Based Enterprise Analytics Platform on AWS with SAS Viya
Short Description
An enterprise organization partnered with UsefulBI to design and deploy SOLAS, a secure, cloud-native analytics platform on AWS. Built on Amazon EKS and SAS Viya, the platform delivered scalable advanced analytics, faster environment provisioning, and enterprise-grade security and compliance for regulated and enterprise workloads.
Customer Problem
The customer’s analytics workloads were spread across on-premises systems and fragmented environments, creating operational and scalability challenges.
Key issues included:
- Limited scalability for advanced analytics workloads
- Slow and resource-intensive provisioning of new analytics environments
- Difficulty supporting multiple analytics languages under consistent governance
- Operational inefficiencies due to siloed environments
- Strict regulatory and enterprise reporting requirements demanding high availability, security, and auditability
The organization required a unified, cloud-native analytics platform that could deliver scalability, agility, and enterprise-grade governance from the ground up.
Solution
UsefulBI designed and deployed SOLAS, a secure, cloud-native enterprise analytics platform built on AWS.
Core Architecture Components:
- SAS Viya deployed on Amazon EKS (Kubernetes-based microservices architecture)
- Workload-isolated node groups for stateless services, stateful components, and compute workloads
- Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for centralized, secure data storage
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for metadata and platform services
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
Security & Governance by Design:
- VPC isolation for network-level security
- IAM-based role access controls
- Encryption using AWS KMS
- Secrets management
- Centralized audit logging
By embedding governance and security controls into the architecture, the platform delivered scalable, reliable, and compliant analytics capabilities for enterprise and regulated workloads.
Benefits / Results
The SOLAS platform delivered transformative impact across analytics operations:
- Faster and repeatable provisioning of new analytics environments
- Improved scalability and workload isolation through Kubernetes architecture
- Standardized advanced analytics across multiple use cases and languages
- Enhanced reliability and high availability for enterprise workloads
- Strengthened compliance, security, and auditability
- Reduced operational effort through automated infrastructure and deployments
The organization gained a unified, secure analytics foundation capable of supporting both enterprise growth and regulatory demands with confidence.
