Cloud-Based Modernization Helped ASP-GSP Cut Storage Costs & Improve Backup Recovery Time

ASP GSP, a trusted GST Suvidha Provider recognized by the Government of India, partnered with Cygnet.One to enhance its cloud infrastructure, ensuring greater scalability, operational resilience, and data efficiency. By transitioning to a modern AWS architecture and refining its storage, backup, and observability layers, ASP GSP strengthened its service delivery while optimizing costs and performance.

As digital compliance becomes central to India’s tax landscape, enterprises rely on platforms like ASP GSP to handle high volumes of data exchange with speed, accuracy, and security. ASP GSP acts as a vital bridge between businesses and the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), enabling seamless e-filing, reconciliation, and invoice data submission through secure APIs and intelligent automation.

With transaction volumes rising and compliance expectations growing more rigorous, ASP GSP identified an opportunity to enhance its infrastructure. The goal was to build a more scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platform — one that could accommodate future growth, simplify operations, and ensure uninterrupted availability for businesses relying on their services.

To support this vision, ASP GSP partnered with Cygnet.One to modernize its cloud infrastructure on AWS. This initiative focused on replacing traditional relational database workloads with open-source PostgreSQL, optimizing storage with intelligent S3 Lifecycle Policies, and strengthening disaster recovery through automated backup strategies. At the same time, the team introduced real-time observability using an integrated monitoring stack to gain deeper insights into system health and performance.

The migration not only brought architectural efficiency, but also operational agility. By automating database management, backups, and alerting processes, ASP GSP significantly reduced manual intervention, minimized recovery times, and improved system transparency, all while maintaining the strict compliance and security standards required for handling tax data at scale.

With the core infrastructure modernized, ASP GSP is now better positioned to continue supporting businesses with high availability, data integrity, and the ability to scale services dynamically as demand evolves.

ASP GSP operated a robust and high-performing infrastructure that successfully supported its critical role in India’s digital tax ecosystem. As service demand steadily increased, the organization proactively recognized the need to evolve its backend systems to support greater scale, cost-efficiency, and automation, ensuring long-term sustainability and responsiveness.

The existing setup included MSSQL databases, manual backup routines, and a growing volume of S3-stored logs without automated lifecycle policies. While this configuration had served the organization well, the leadership team saw an opportunity to further optimize:

• SQL Server licensing and scaling models created rising operational expenses that could be better controlled with open-source alternatives.
• Log retention in Amazon S3 was designed for compliance but lacked automated expiration, gradually inflating storage costs.
• Manual intervention in backup and recovery added operational load and extended recovery timelines.
• Monitoring and alerting capabilities, though functional, required consolidation for unified visibility and faster decision-making.

To continue delivering seamless services to its customers, ASP GSP sought to implement a future-ready infrastructure, one that supported real-time insights, automated operations, cost predictability, and flexible scaling aligned with evolving transaction volumes.

Cygnet.One partnered closely with ASP GSP to architect a future-ready cloud infrastructure on AWS, one that seamlessly aligned with their operational needs, regulatory responsibilities, and growth vision. The engagement began with a collaborative discovery and planning phase, during which the teams evaluated existing workloads, identified cost optimization opportunities, and designed a migration path that prioritized uptime, data integrity, and performance.

To modernize the database layer, ASP GSP’s MSSQL instances were transitioned to self-managed PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2, ensuring full control over performance tuning and cost structure. Tools such as sqlserver2pgsql, pgloader, and AWS DMS were employed for schema conversion and real-time data replication. Given the complexity of stored procedures and functions, Cygnet engineers manually refactored them using PL/pgSQL, ensuring compatibility and adherence to PostgreSQL best practices. This approach guaranteed a zero-downtime migration, with production systems kept fully in sync during the cutover phase.

On the storage front, ASP GSP implemented Amazon EFS for scalable shared access and transitioned long-term object storage to Amazon S3 with intelligent lifecycle policies that automatically purge stale logs after 180 days. This change alone contributed to a 50% drop in long-term storage costs, without compromising data retention or audit readiness.

Cygnet also designed and validated a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy, leveraging AWS Backup to automate daily snapshots for both EBS and EFS volumes. Structured BCDR testing proved the system could recover EC2 and file system assets in minimal time, surpassing internal RTO targets and offering renewed confidence in business continuity planning.

To unify operations, a powerful observability layer was deployed using Amazon CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and Grafana, giving ASP GSP a centralized view of system performance, real-time log analytics, and actionable alerts. This allowed technical teams to proactively manage workloads and detect anomalies early, significantly reducing manual monitoring overhead and boosting operational resilience.

Security and governance were reinforced throughout the architecture with IAM-based access control, S3 encryption (SSE-S3), EBS volume encryption, and audit trails via AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config. These measures ensure continued alignment with ASP GSP’s strict regulatory and compliance requirements.

With infrastructure now fully modernized, automated, and designed for elasticity, ASP GSP has unlocked a new phase of innovation, ready to support rising demand, expand service offerings, and maintain the trust of the businesses and institutions that rely on it every day.