HIPAA Deployment to Azure

Problem Statement

The company currently faces several critical challenges that hinder its ability to maintain a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. These challenges include:

1.1 Frequent Downtime & Poor Reliability

• The company’s existing infrastructure is monolithic, creating a single point of failure, leading to frequent service interruptions and downtime during high traffic or system updates.
• Manual scaling processes are inefficient and fail to meet the demand during peak times, further contributing to performance issues and unpredictable uptime.

1.2 Inefficient Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD)

• The current deployment process is manual and error-prone, making it time-consuming and inconsistent. This results in delayed feature releases, inconsistent environments, and slower response to critical bug fixes and security patches.
• The company lacks a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, which would streamline development and operations, ensuring that new features and updates are deployed seamlessly and without human intervention.

1.3 Compliance & Security Challenges (HIPAA)

• The company handles sensitive healthcare data, which requires adherence to HIPAA regulations for data security and privacy. However, their current infrastructure does not meet the necessary security standards, including encryption, access control, and audit trails, putting patient data at risk.
• Ensuring compliance with HIPAA is a major concern, as the lack of robust security measures could lead to costly penalties, legal repercussions, and damage to the company’s reputation.

1.4 Lack of Visibility & Monitoring

• The company has limited real-time visibility into the performance and health of their applications and infrastructure.
• Without proper monitoring tools, the team struggles to identify and address performance bottlenecks, security threats, or other operational issues before they escalate.

1.5 Inadequate Incident Management & Alerting

• The existing incident management system is reactive rather than proactive, leading to slow responses to critical system failures, security breaches, or performance issues.
• The company lacks an integrated alerting system for immediate notification of critical events. Without automated alerts or Slack integration, the DevOps and operations teams face delays in identifying and addressing issues, affecting system uptime and user experience.