RCH Achieves AWS Life Sciences Competency

Challenge

A recurring challenge that clients face across all industries, specifically Life Sciences, is the substantial effort, time, and resources required to manage infrastructure effectively while mitigating technical debt. In environments where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is either not utilized or is poorly maintained, organizations often experience elevated administrative and support overhead, including increased time and effort to maintain, update, and troubleshoot infrastructure.

This frequently results in:

• • Greater technical drift across environments (e.g., dev, QA, production) and discrepancies between IaC repositories and deployed infrastructure/configurations
  • Accelerated accumulation of technical debt
  • Increased support costs

RCH has at least one proven solution to this issue. We have recently helped one organization address these common pain points while designing scalable, future-proof solutions to minimize drift and reduce technical debt.

RCH engaged with a client to support the buildout of a Generative AI platform within AWS—a project reflective of similar work completed for one of our global pharmaceutical Life Sciences customers.

Solution

To address our client’s needs, RCH proposed a solution centered on Terraform, utilizing custom templates developed by RCH Solutions. This approach enabled the client to efficiently track and manage changes to their infrastructure using a standardized, IaC-driven framework.

This methodology draws on RCH’s extensive experience implementing automated, reproducible infrastructure solutions. Previously used in a large-scale engagement with a global Life Sciences client, RCH was able to modernize their cloud architecture and accelerate innovation. In this instance, the client was able to shift away from legacy, manual infrastructure management and shift toward a scalable, CI/CD-driven operating model. This enabled faster and more accurate provisioning of resources across environments.

Outcome

By leveraging Terraform, the team successfully delivered the solution in alignment with CI/CD best practices and accomplished the implementation in a matter of days rather than weeks. Deploying infrastructure through IaC allowed for rapid experimentation with different configurations. This enabled the team to identify and implement the optimal setup in response to evolving project requirements. All updates and changes were applied quickly and seamlessly, often within minutes rather than days.

With Terraform tracking infrastructure state, RCH was also able to ensure:

• • 0% drift across GenAI-related infrastructure—Terraform remains 100% reflective of deployed environments
  • 100% of changes are applied consistently across all environments, with all branches and corresponding environments remaining in line with one another

This approach is consistent with how RCH has supported other large-scale enterprise initiatives through implementing standardized, scalable infrastructure solutions. These reduce manual overhead and enhance system integrity.

Whether your organization is seeking to reduce drift and technical debt, build out new infrastructure, or evolve an existing ecosystem with CI/CD principles in mind, RCH Solutions has the domain expertise and proven experience from over 30 years in the business to help you succeed.