How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform

This article discusses how Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending (SAV) process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT). The key points are:

Specifically, the article covers:

• Zurich's need for a scalable and automated process to provision consistent AWS environments for migrating workloads
• The high-level architecture of the SAV solution using Zurich's tooling (Azure DevOps, Jira, Terraform Cloud)
• Environment vending pipeline overview using AFT for account provisioning and Terraform Cloud for resource provisioning
• Terraform Cloud code promotion process using GitFlow to manage changes to Terraform modules safely
• Benefits achieved, including scalability to support 3000+ accounts, improved SLAs, reduced CCOE effort, and automated DevSecOps