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Background
Chemtrade is a leading North American provider of industrial chemicals and services — trusted by customers across water treatment, pulp & paper, oil & gas, and other key industries.
The Challenge
Chemtrade needed to migrate all of their mission-critical workloads from their aging private datacenter to AWS — and they needed to move quickly. Their existing datacenter contract was approaching renewal, and extending it would have required a new five-year commitment with significant cost implications. This created a strict timeline and major operational pressure to complete the transition before the renewal date.
Their IT environment was large and complex, consisting of multiple SAP landscapes, Exchange and Windows-based infrastructure, manufacturing and operational applications, industrial plant connectivity, and various third-party systems tightly integrated into day-to-day operations. The diversity and interdependencies of these systems made the migration especially challenging.
Chemtrade also needed to ensure that the shift would not disrupt critical business processes across their chemical plants, logistics operations, customer services, and finance teams. Coordinating application owners, business stakeholders, security requirements, and compliance constraints added another layer of complexity to the already aggressive timeline.
Chemtrade recognized that the success of their cloud transformation depended on partnering with a team that possessed deep, battle-tested expertise in Amazon Web Services, along with advanced capabilities in Kubernetes, Helm, and Infrastructure as Code. Given the scale and complexity of their environment, they needed a partner who could navigate critical architectural decisions, ensure platform reliability, and uphold strict security and compliance requirements. Anything less would put their timelines, operations, and long-term cloud strategy at risk.
Our Solution
Chemtrade engaged RiseInCloud, due to the team’s extensive AWS experience and a proven track record with complex workload migrations.
With RiseInCloud’s support, Chemtrade successfully migrated its virtual workloads to AWS using a clean, scalable, and future-ready resource hierarchy built from the ground up with CloudFormation and industry best practices. This foundation ensures long-term maintainability, operational consistency, and the flexibility to evolve as business and technical needs grow.
High-Level Overview Of Accounts And Networking
High-Level Overview Of Traffic Flow
RiseInCloud worked alongside the Chemtrade engineering team to review and customise their infrastructure code and software development lifecycles. This process ensured that Chemtrade was able to rapidly deploy workloads to development and production environments leveraging AWS advanced features.
- Account Isolation
- Network Design
- Efficient Load Balancing
- Secrets and Configuration management
Following the completion of the project, RiseInCloud delivered extensive enablement for Chemtrade’s IT and operations teams, ensuring they were fully equipped to manage and evolve the new cloud environment. This included in-depth training sessions, detailed architectural documentation, and tailored operational playbooks covering all critical components. The enablement program spanned EKS operations, short-lived credential management with IRSA, observability and monitoring practices, governance standards, and day-to-day operational workflows. RiseInCloud remained closely engaged throughout the transition, providing ongoing guidance and knowledge transfer to ensure Chemtrade’s teams had confidence and clarity in operating their modernized platform.
The Result
As a result of the close collaboration between Chemtrade and RiseInCloud, the organization was able to successfully transition its existing virtual workloads to AWS with zero disruption and minimal downtime. Every component was thoroughly deployed, tested, and validated to ensure stability and full operational readiness. This seamless migration enabled Chemtrade to continue advancing its platform and modernizing its cloud operations on AWS with confidence and momentum.