From Azure to AWS: How US Monitoring Built an Automated, HIPAA-Ready Foundation for Its Healthcare SaaS Platform
A 15-year-old healthcare SaaS platform ready for a new home
US Monitoring Inc. (USMON) provides a B2B SaaS application that serves as a total workflow system for the healthcare industry. After 15 years in production, the application carried the weight of legacy code and depended on a single resource to maintain it.
The company also lacked visibility into its cloud costs on Azure, and needed to shift from manual review to a more reliable, automated approach to maintain its HIPAA compliance. USMON decided to migrate from Azure to AWS and hired an AWS Premier MSP partner to support the move. That partner used Platformr to accelerate the migration, setting up a secure AWS structure to meet USMON’s security, visibility, and governance objectives.
Migrating to AWS to improve cost visibility, security, and compliance
USMON’s goals were clear: migrate to AWS, gain cloud cost visibility, reduce manual effort, maintain HIPAA compliance, and improve organizational governance. Three issues stood in the way.
Legacy code and a single point of failure
As a 15-year-old SaaS application, USMON was burdened by legacy code and reliant on a single resource to maintain it.
No visibility into cloud costs
The company lacked visibility into its cloud costs on Azure, making it difficult to understand and control spend.
HIPAA compliance that relied on manual review
To maintain HIPAA compliance, USMON needed to improve its development process and shift from manual review to a more reliable, automated solution.
Foundation + Workload Factory: a secure, compliant AWS environment built for healthcare
Platformr gave USMON’s MSP partner a fast path to a secure AWS structure, combining automated environment setup with the governance, cost visibility, and compliance controls USMON needed.
Foundation included:
- AWS landing zone and organizational governance
- Tagging for cost visibility
- Service control policies and AWS conformance packs for HIPAA compliance, providing automatic non-compliance alerts during the AWS migration
Workload Factory included:
- Separate development environments for increased security and to support compliance
- A Disaster Recovery environment
Lower costs, automated compliance, and a more reliable platform
Monthly cloud costs cut from $55K to $20K
With tagging and a well-governed AWS structure in place, USMON reduced its monthly cloud costs from $55K to $20K.
A more automated HIPAA-compliant solution
Service control policies and conformance packs replaced manual review with automatic non-compliance alerts.
Improved operations
Better documentation of processes and of how to maintain the environment.
Increased reliability through backups
Established backup schedules and policies, alongside a dedicated Disaster Recovery environment.
A prescriptive approach to monitoring
USMON adopted a prescriptive approach to monitoring its reliability outcomes.
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