InvestIN KSA

From scattered chaos to a centralized core

Your scattered infrastructure makes it impossible to prove regulatory compliance. It takes too long to manage and fails to meet local data residency and financial regulations in KSA. How do you execute a migration onto a secure, centralized cloud architecture built for audibility?

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For a FinTech startup operating in KSA, the pain of a distributed infrastructure was compounded by strict local data residency requirements.

Lacking the internal expertise for a complex cloud migration, they reached out to us to execute a strategic consolidation. The mission was clear: gather all services to a single, compliant, and newly established GCP region (me-central2) to build a high-quality, automated foundation.

Quick facts

InvestIN KSA

Digital Investment Management Platform

It provides digital financial and wealth-building services in Saudi Arabia, requiring a highly secure, compliant, and reliable infrastructure that adheres to local financial regulations.

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35%

Reduction in Operational Costs

By migrating all services onto a centralized account, we optimized cloud spend while significantly improving performance, cybersecurity, team routine work quality, and compliance.

How to streamline project management

The best couple
GCP + GitHub

The setup consisted of: Google Cloud Platform paired with Terragrunt for consistent infrastructure management and GitHub Actions to build a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.

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“Thanks to ITSyndicate observation and experience, crucial compliance fixes were applied before anyone noticed a problem or had to deal with data loss, hacks, user complaints, or lawsuits.”

Niko Grant

Product Owner, InvestIN KSA

What we did for InvestIN KSA

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How do you execute an end-to-end cloud transformation?

Similar to other transformations, this was a multi-phase project. It wasn't just about lifting-and-shifting services; it was about building a completely new, professional operational model. Our process covered the full lifecycle, from foundational migration and automation to advanced observability and ongoing strategic support.

  1. Cloud Migration & Regional Consolidation. First, we executed a full cloud migration, gathering all of the services onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By specifically utilizing the me-central2 region in Dammam, we ensured full compliance with the KSA's local data residency regulations from day one.
  2. End-to-End Infrastructure Automation. With the foundation in place, we implemented automation across the stack. The entire infrastructure was defined as code using Terragrunt for error-free, consistent deployments across Production, Staging, and Dev environments. A new CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker allowed their developers to ship features faster.
  3. Advanced Observability. To ensure operational stability, we established an observability stack. GCP Cloud Monitoring and Logging provided real-time insights, with alerts routed instantly to the team via Slack and Telegram. Incidents were managed through OpsGenie and tracked in Jira, creating a streamlined and auditable response process.
  4. Ongoing Strategic Partnership. Our role evolved into an ongoing partnership focused on continuous improvement. We handled the daily "Ops jobs" to support their developers and, as the client noted, often suggested a "better way" to approach technical challenges, providing a proactive consulting value that saved them time and improved the architecture.
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Strategic infrastructure partner for a startup

Our role is to be a product-focused consulting partner, not just an order-taker. We believe in finding "the better way" to achieve your goals - simpler, safer, and faster.

During this project migration, we frequently proposed alternative approaches for rollout plans and data handling. This proactive guidance reduced rework, removed roadblocks for their development team, and ultimately kept the project roadmap on schedule.

We establish a proactive security posture by integrating automated checks and best practices directly into the development lifecycle. Security isn't a final step; it's a continuous process.

For InvestIN KSA, we integrated container image and dependency scanning directly into the CI pipeline, enforced CIS controls as a minimum baseline, and tightened secrets management.

Regular reviews of this automated system allowed us to catch policy gaps and configuration drift early, preventing compliance misses and production surprises.

Through a disciplined FinOps practice that provides visibility and aligns resource usage directly with demand. Our goal is to eliminate waste and prevent surprise bills.

We achieved a 35% operational cost reduction for this client by implementing several key controls:

  • establishing consistent tagging for unit economics;
  • setting budget alerts;
  • creating spend visibility dashboards.

We then tuned right-sizing and autoscaling rules to ensure resource allocation matched real-time demand precisely.

It's a multi-layered defense that controls traffic at every level, from the public internet down to individual services. We standardize this design to reduce credential sprawl and minimize the attack surface.

Our approach involved creating a standard VPC design with private service access and controlled egress. 

Cloudflare was used to front all public entry points, with WAF rules and rate limits tuned for their specific traffic.

For internal traffic, we implemented service-to-service authentication and workload identity to ensure secure communication between components.

By turning the DR document into a practiced, validated capability. We achieve this through regular, hands-on recovery drills.

We start by setting clear backup policies and defining RPO/RTO targets for databases and critical state.

Then, we conduct regular restore rehearsals to validate the entire recovery path, from infrastructure re-provisioning via Terraform to data restoration.

These drills ensure that in a real emergency, the recovery process is a familiar, proven procedure, not a theoretical one.

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