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Cloud Infrastructure Modernization

Modernizing Cloud Infrastructure for Resilience and Cost Control

  • Case Studies
  • February 2025
  • 4 min read

Environments had been built manually over several years, producing configuration drift, unpredictable spend and slow, high-risk releases. Prodatalabs rebuilt the platform on automated, policy-governed foundations.

Business impact at a glance

Representative Outcomes

Indicative results from an engagement of this type. Figures are not attributed to a named client.

Environment provisioning
AutomatedEnvironment provisioning
Recovery objectives
TestedRecovery objectives
Cost ownership by workload
VisibleCost ownership by workload

The Challenge

Infrastructure changes were manual, undocumented and dependent on a small number of individuals. Recovery had never been fully tested and cloud spend could not be attributed to owners.

  • Configuration drift between development, test and production
  • Manual, high-risk deployment and change processes
  • Untested recovery and unclear availability objectives
  • No cost attribution or rightsizing discipline

Our Approach

  1. Step 01

    Assess current state

    Inventoried workloads, dependencies, availability requirements and spend patterns across environments.

  2. Step 02

    Define target architecture

    Agreed landing zone design, network and identity model, recovery objectives and guardrail policies.

  3. Step 03

    Automate and migrate

    Rebuilt environments as infrastructure as code with standard pipelines, migrating workloads in planned waves.

  4. Step 04

    Operate and optimize

    Implemented monitoring, alerting, cost dashboards and rightsizing reviews with internal platform owners.

Solution Delivered

A standardized, automated cloud platform with consistent environments, tested recovery and continuous cost visibility.

  • Infrastructure as code for all environments
  • Standardized CI/CD pipelines with policy guardrails
  • Centralized logging, monitoring and alerting
  • Documented and tested backup and recovery procedures
  • Cost tagging, dashboards and periodic rightsizing reviews

Technologies Used

  • Public cloud platform
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Container orchestration
  • Observability tooling

Business Outcomes

Consistent environments

Drift between environments was eliminated, reducing defects traced to configuration differences.

Lower change risk

Automated, repeatable deployments replaced manual change windows.

Predictable spend

Tagging and dashboards gave each workload an accountable owner and a visible cost trend.

Reduced key-person dependency

Documented, codified infrastructure made platform knowledge shared rather than individual.

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