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ManufacturingNorth AmericaMulti-CloudData Platform

Multi-Region Data Lake

Customer: Vector Logistics
Delivery team: Workmates Cloud Engineering
41%
Cost Savings
99.9%
Availability
2.7x
Performance
Architecture

Featured cloud architecture

Users / EdgeCI/CDIaC · TerraformAPI GatewayKubernetes (EKS)Service MeshData LakeObservabilitySecurity / Vault
Challenge

Business challenge

Legacy infrastructure constrained release velocity, created compliance gaps, and produced unpredictable costs across regions. Leadership required a defensible modernization plan.

  • Constrained release velocity
  • Compliance & audit gaps
  • Unpredictable cost across regions
Customer

Vector Logistics

VL
Manufacturing · North America
IndustryManufacturing
RegionNorth America
CloudMulti-Cloud
Use caseData Platform
Solution

Solution delivered

We delivered a landing-zone, container platform, and automated CI/CD pipelines with policy-as-code guardrails. The platform supports multi-region failover, golden paths for engineering teams, and a unified observability stack.

Stack

Technologies used

LambdaAzure AKSIstioDatadogDevOpsSecurityObservability
Outcomes

Business outcomes

41%
Cost Savings
99.9%
Availability
2.7x
Performance
A+
Security Posture
3.4x
Op. Efficiency
Delivery

Key achievements

  1. Week 2
    Discovery & blueprint
    Workload assessment, TCO model, and target architecture signed off.
  2. Week 6
    Landing zone live
    Multi-account foundation with guardrails, IAM, and network baseline.
  3. Week 12
    First workload migrated
    Pilot service in production with zero customer impact.
  4. Week 20
    Full cutover
    All in-scope workloads migrated; legacy decommissioned.
Lessons

Lessons learned

Co-locate platform and product engineers from day one.

Treat policy-as-code as a first-class deliverable.

Invest early in golden paths to accelerate adoption.