How Codincity Enabled Platform Engineering Excellence on AWS for a Global Insurance Leader
Client Overview
Client: Global Insurance Enterprise
Industry: Insurance
Region: Americas
Solution Focus: Platform Engineering, AWS Cloud-Native Enablement, Control Tower, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, Developer Self-Service
The Business Challenge
The client, a global insurance leader, have adopted Multi Cloud and Hybrid infrastructure strategy to host the business workloads. As part of its multi-cloud expansion, the client pursued a greenfield AWS implementation and needed a robust platform that ensures standardization, compliance, developer efficiency, and operational scalability.
Key requirements included:
Establishing standardized cloud account and network provisioning frameworks to ensure consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency across teams
Aligning platform automation and governance practices across environments to drive improved reliability, compliance, and operational resilience
Streamlining application team onboarding and automated environment provisioning to accelerate time-to-productivity and reduce operational friction
Enhancing the developer experience by providing self-service tooling, intuitive interfaces, and integrated support for rapid application delivery
Driving continuous improvement in infrastructure operations by promoting reusable patterns, integrated observability, and proactive cost optimization
Codincity’s Solution
Control Tower–Backed Landing Zone Architecture
Designed a secure, multi-account AWS Landing Zone using Control Tower, integrated with AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
Embedded guardrails for security, compliance, and operational baselines across foundational accounts and support for AWS accounts scalability and Governance
Extended landing zone using Terraform automation for network segmentation, IAM role federation, centralized logging, and custom account factory workflows
Enabled standardized VPC layouts, connectivity patterns using Transit Gateway to align with enterprise standards
Adopted AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise security standards as foundational design principles
Modular Platform Engineering
Designed and implemented a cloud-native platform built on a foundation of 20+ core AWS services, enabling scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
Developed reusable, enterprise aligned Terraform modules to manage compute, identity, networking, and storage in a consistent, secure manner
Designed and implemented highly customised, hardened and modular Kubernetes platform in AWS and Azure with enterprise capabilities aligning to the security standards
Implemented GitOps workflows for managing K8s infrastructure, platform services, and application deployments
Enabled version-controlled changes, policy enforcement, and rollback support for both platform and application layers
Developer Enablement & Multi-Cloud Consistency
Simplified environment provisioning through templates and automation, reducing onboarding time and manual intervention
Bridged Azure and AWS operational models, aligning cloud governance and deployment patterns
Delivered onboarding playbooks, reference blueprints, and a self-service portal backed by platform APIs
Enhanced Unified Observability
Integrated NextGen monitoring tools for real-time telemetry, APM, and distributed tracing across business and infrastructure workloads hosted in On Prem Datacenters and public cloud
Built a unified visualization layer, aggregating metrics from various tools for platform-wide dashboards
Enabled automated alerts, SLOs, and service health insights, improving incident response and system reliability
Business Impact
Enterprise-Grade cloud Foundation for AWS: Delivered a secure, compliant AWS Landing Zone using Control Tower and IaC automation
Accelerated Cloud Onboarding and adoption: Enabled rapid provisioning of development environments and workloads across multiple accounts
Unified Platform Experience: Standardized cloud operations across Azure and AWS with shared patterns and reusable components
Developer Autonomy: Empowered teams to self-serve infrastructure needs while adhering to security and governance requirements
Future-Ready Foundation: Established a flexible platform that supports Kubernetes, serverless, containerized, and traditional workloads
Business Outcome
CODINCITY empowered the customer to adopt a modern platform engineering approach by delivering a robust, scalable internal platform. By combining automation, observability, and secure self-service capabilities, the solution streamlined infrastructure management, enhanced developer experience, and enforced consistency across environments. This foundation enables faster, more reliable delivery while supporting long-term agility and operational excellence.
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