During modernization projects, it is crucial to assert functional equivalence between legacy (Mainframe/AS400) and modernized applications. One of our team’s tools, the Capture & Replay 🎬 is made just for that. The terminals are typically installed in the AWS customer environment, where a connection with the legacy application can be established. This also allows the customers to customize their environment at will and specify exactly what permissions they want to grant to our application. Users are also free to choose how they want to set up a connection between this environment and their legacy application. Security is often of the utmost concern during modernization projects, letting customers keep control over these factors help us earn their trust.
Previously, the distribution of the terminals was manual: teams wanting to use our tool needed to contact us so we could give them access to the Docker image of the application as well as provide guidance for the installation.
As the demand for this tool is increasing, we decided to automate and simplify the process and allow L3 certified individuals to request access to the tool directly from bluinsights.aws 🚀
In the Capture & Replay service, we added a new form customers can fill out with some details on the project they are working on. Once their request is validated, their provided AWS Account will be able to pull the application’s image from our ECR repository and they will automatically receive a guide with details on the installation.
Automating this process allows us to simplify and standardize UX for our customers and concentrate our time on developing new features to better serve them!
Earning the trust of our customers is one of the core tenets of our team. This is why our new system also integrates the application with AWS Key Management System (KMS) 🔑, ensuring at all time that only customers having been granted access to the application are using it.
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September 2023