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A global aviation services organization had built a growing portfolio of 12 business-critical applications on infrastructure that was never designed for enterprise security or scale.Applications had public access enabled, on-premises databases with no cloud connectivity, and an entirely manual provisioning process. Inferenz re-architected every application to an event-driven pattern, replaced the provisioning model with reusable Terraform modules, migrated 60+ databases from on-premises to Azure, and delivered a governed, zero-trust cloud environment that the organization can now extend independently without external support.
The organization had built its application portfolio on infrastructure that was never designed for enterprise security or scale, leaving it exposed and unable to grow without repeating the same fragile approach every time.
Existing application infrastructure had public access enabled across services, with no consistent use of managed identity, no private endpoint configuration, and SAS tokens in place of proper authentication. Every application here could not have sustained as it scaled.
There was no infrastructure as code. Every new application environment required engineers to manually provision resources through the Azure portal, resource by resource, setting by setting. No consistency, no audit trail, no repeatable process, and no way to assess applied security standards.
Twelve applications were ready to move to the secure Azure environment, but their databases remained on premises in a data center. The new cloud infrastructure required fully private connectivity, making the on-premise databases both a performance liability and security exception.
As the organization continued to develop new applications, there was no defined framework for bringing them into a secure environment. Each onboarding was a custom, manual exercise and not a repeatable process.
Inferenz began with structured discovery, conducting individual architecture sessions with each of the 12 application teams to map existing components, understand data flows, identify dependencies, and document the gap between current state and the secure target environment. This produced a clear migration plan for each workload before any infrastructure was touched.
Each application was re-architected to follow an event-driven architecture pattern before migration, replacing tightly coupled service interactions with asynchronous, scalable communication. This was not a lift-and-shift. It was a deliberate re-design to ensure applications would operate efficiently in the new environment, not simply replicating the problems of the old one.
The entire infrastructure provisioning model was replaced with 30+ reusable Terraform modules, purpose-built for the organization's Azure environment and security standards. Private endpoints, managed identity authentication, Key Vault integration, API Management configuration, and network connectivity were all codified, making every future application onboarding a repeatable, auditable, and standards-compliant process.
CI/CD pipelines were built through GitHub Actions to deploy all infrastructure via Terraform, removing manual provisioning from every environment: Dev, Test, Stage, and Production. The pipelines enforce the security baseline on every deployment, ensuring no resource can be created outside the defined standards regardless of who initiates the deployment.
The on-premises database dependency was resolved through a coordinated migration of 10+ SQL Servers and 50+ SQL databases to Azure. Inferenz worked directly with the organization's DBAs and InfoSec team to design the migration approach, configure private connectivity, and validate that each database met the security requirements of the new environment before any application cutover.
The team trained the client's cloud engineering team on the full Terraform framework and established a documented onboarding process for new applications entering the secure environment. The organization now has both the tooling and the institutional knowledge to bring new workloads into the platform independently, without requiring external support for every addition.
Public endpoints remaining
Every application now operates behind private endpoints with managed identity auth. Public-facing Azure URLs eliminated across all applications.
Reusable Terraform modules
One IaC framework now governs infrastructure provisioning across the entire organization, replacing a fully manual click-through process with repeatable, auditable deployments.
580 endpoints
Live across 12 migrated apps All applications re-architected to event-driven patterns and running in the secure environment with zero manual infrastructure.
Databases moved to cloud
10+ SQL Servers and 50+ databases migrated from on-premise to Azure, removing the connectivity dependency that had blocked full application migration.
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