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Through cloud co-engineering, Sketch helps healthcare enterprise get more value from AWS

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Situation

Cloud enablement, from strategy to action

In a previous engagement, Sketch Development Services provided the client with a Cloud Enablement strategy, laying out a plan to productize the Cloud Center of Excellence's (CCoE’s) services and tools for easier cloud adoption by our client’s development teams. The client then asked Sketch to help establish a backlog they could use to put the strategy into practice. Specifically, the client wanted an extra hand building products with AWS’ Cloud Development Kit (“CDK”).

Challenge

Accelerate cloud adoption for the entire organization

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The CCoE already had some tools in the form of CloudFormation templates, shell scripts, and even some Python CDK stacks. The goal was to use the CCoE's expertise to convert these tools into a product any number of development teams could use with relative ease.

AWS cloud adoption goals

A toolset of this nature should:

 

  • Have a shallower learning curve to implement than the current toolset
  • Make it easier for users to adopt new versions when the CCoE deploys fixes, upgrades, or enhancements
  • Be adoptable by almost any dev team regardless of their programming language familiarity
  • Have common architectural patterns baked in so teams aren’t reinventing those wheels
  • Have guardrails in place to keep the development teams on a tried-and-true path that follows the client’s cloud governance and security principles
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Because this client is in healthcare, security was paramount, and any downtime would be completely unacceptable.

Enter Sketch

Solution

Cloud management services

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To meet the client's requirements, we worked with them toward four main objectives:

1. Build a toolset (CCoE’s “product”) that the client’s other development teams can use


2. Establish CCoE’s delivery strategy of these tools to development teams

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3. Automate speedy delivery of the toolset to the consumers when new features or bug-fixes need to be released
4. Make it as easy as possible for development teams to implement the product in their own environment
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Results

Successful migration to AWS

Cloud adoption outcomes

We helped the CCoE team build:

  • A product line of 11 CDK constructs that generate Infrastructure-as-Code templates conforming to typical, approved the client’s architectures
  • A mechanism allowing CCoE to create the product line once, yet providing it to development teams in five total programming languages (Go, Java, .NET, Typescript, and Python)
  • Automated processes to test, build, and deploy updates and enhancements to the product line
  • Samples and documentation that 400+ teams can reference to help with the successful adoption of CCoE’s product

CLIENT FEEDBACK

“This was an incredible partnership and we appreciate all the hard work and dedication to this project. We are excited about the future work this team will be able to produce.”

Technical manager

Fortune 50 healthcare enterprise

Trusted AWS Partner for enterprises

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