Client Overview
Patrizia SE operates as a globally-recognized real assets investment management entity headquartered in Germany, managing over EUR 50 billion in assets. The organization needed infrastructure modernization to support enhanced security, agility, scalability, and long-term cloud sustainability.
Business Challenge
The original monolithic EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk architecture was increasingly unsuited to the firm's evolving needs.
No Environment Segregation
Lack of separation between development, staging, and production environments.
Manual Operations
Infrastructure and deployment processes were largely manual and error-prone.
Inconsistent IAM Controls
Access management lacked consistency and least-privilege enforcement.
Governance & Security Gaps
No centralized governance framework or security monitoring.
Performance Issues
Legacy architecture struggled to deliver required performance at scale.
Solution Design
GenClouds designed a comprehensive modernization strategy across compute, security, governance, and observability.
Compute Layer
Migrated from EC2/Elastic Beanstalk to containerized Amazon EKS with auto-scaling.
Infrastructure as Code
Full Terraform implementation for reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure.
CI/CD Automation
CodePipeline and CodeBuild integration for automated build and deployment.
Networking & Security
VPCs with public/private subnets, NAT Gateways, ALB/NLB routing, and Route 53.
Governance Framework
AWS Organizations and Control Tower with Service Control Policies enforcement.
Identity & Access
IAM Identity Center with role-based access, permission sets, and Secrets Manager.
Results & Outcomes
The modernization delivered measurable improvements across performance, security, and operational efficiency.
80% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time through IaC automation
30–40% performance improvement via containerization and ElastiCache
Enhanced security posture with unified access control and MFA
CI/CD pipelines reduced release time from days to minutes
Full multi-account governance with clear environment separation
Foundation established for future AI/ML and real-time financial operations
Conclusion
Patrizia successfully transformed legacy infrastructure into a modern, scalable, and secure AWS-native architecture, positioning the organization for future analytics, AI/ML, and real-time financial operations initiatives.