Case Study
Modernizing Global Retail Digital Content: Mobile Price Card Solutions Achieves AWS Governance and Operational Efficiency with Clearscale’s Landing Zone and IaC
ClearScale deployed an automated AWS Landing Zone and Infrastructure as Code for Mobile Price Card Solutions, establishing centralized AWS governance and boosting operational efficiency to secure their global retail expansion.
Client Profile
Industry Retail TechnologyRetail SaaS
Competencies AWS Retail
Overview
To sustain global scaling and ensure the non-negotiable reliability required by their retail clients, MPC Solutions faced a critical need to standardize and automate their AWS environment. Clearscale designed and implemented a secure, fully automated multi-account AWS Landing Zone coupled with Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and robust CI/CD pipelines. This modernization effort established centralized governance, eliminated manual provisioning, and significantly enhanced operational efficiency for MPC Solutions, allowing them to focus on innovation.
Meet Our Hero
MPC Solutions is a retail technology innovator whose platform serves critical in-store digital retail functions at global scale. This initiative addressed core concerns across executive personas, including the CTO (Engineering), CIO (Governance), and COO (Operations).
The Goal
The overarching goal was to create a scalable, governed, and automated AWS foundation capable of serving global retail clients reliably.
The Challenge
Challenge 01
Lack of centralized AWS governance and inconsistent security configurations across environments.
Challenge 02
Absence of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), making infrastructure provisioning manual, slow, error-prone, and susceptible to configuration drift.
Challenge 03
Manual application deployment processes that were cumbersome, risky, and hindered the speed and reliability of new feature releases.
The Solution
Clearscale executed a rapid modernization using its ‘Land, Automate, Migrate’ pattern:
Step 01: Centralized Governance
Implemented a multi-account AWS Landing Zone utilizing Control Tower and Organizations, establishing dedicated accounts (Infrastructure, Security, Sandbox, Workloads) for consistent policy enforcement.
Step 02: Full Automation with IaC
Developed comprehensive, reusable Terraform modules defining the full infrastructure stack (VPCs, EC2, RDS, Secrets Manager, load balancers), ensuring all resources are version-controlled and repeatable.
Step 03: Reliable Deployments
Built automated CI/CD pipelines for Dev, QA/Staging, and Production environments, streamlining application deployment and reliability for global retail clients.
Step 04: Risk Mitigation
Conducted a phased migration of live workloads into the new structure, using a waved rollout across user groups during the production transition to mitigate risk.
The Impact
The modernization resulted in significant gains in governance, security, and agility.
Operational Efficiency: Achieved full infrastructure automation with zero manual provisioning steps remaining, freeing the team to focus on innovation.
Security & Stability: Ensured a secure, drift-free AWS environment with centralized governance and a consistent security posture.
Speed to Market: Automated CI/CD pipelines allow reliable, repeatable deployments across global environments.
Empowerment: The MPC team received detailed knowledge transfer, enabling them to independently operate and maintain their modernized and automated AWS environment.
Use Cases
The following use cases highlight how Mobile Price Card Solutions leverages a modernized AWS foundation to deliver high-performance digital content management and maintain rigorous governance standards across its global retail operations.
- Dynamic In-Store Digital Content: Providing a reliable, scalable foundation for delivering time-sensitive digital content and price cards within physical retail stores worldwide.
- AWS Platform Governance & Security: Serving as a pattern for other scaling retail technology companies seeking to establish centralized AWS governance and enforce security policies across multiple accounts.
- CI/CD for Global Retail SaaS: Demonstrating rapid, automated application deployment workflows to support constant innovation in the retail technology sector.
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