Mohamed Radwan

At LEAP 2025, T-Systems and Detasad showcased cutting-edge dataspace solutions, driving secure data collaboration, AI innovation, and compliance in Saudi Arabia. Through strategic partnerships and cloud-agnostic platforms, we empower businesses to scale, optimize operations, and unlock new revenue opportunities in the region’s thriving digital economy.

This article outlines our experience migrating workloads from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud, culminating in the decommissioning of our last server in December 2024. The migration focused on our Motion Data product, which leverages geo-information analytics from Deutsche Telekom's mobile network to provide anonymized mass movement insights for industries such as retail, tourism, and public transport. Our transition to AWS was driven by rising colocation costs and the need to modernize our infrastructure, which faced limitations due to outdated technology constraints, high maintenance efforts, and inefficient storage and compute resource management. We selected AWS's Replatforming approach to harness managed services, improve scalability, and replace legacy Hadoop infrastructure with a more flexible Spark-on-Kubernetes and S3-based solution. The migration delivered key benefits, including 35% lower infrastructure costs, access to up-to-date technology stacks, and removal of resource constraints for compute workloads. By leveraging AWS-managed services such as Kubernetes (EKS), EMR, and RDS, we optimized performance, simplified operations, and positioned ourselves for future growth and innovation in cloud-native environments.

This blog highlights how T-Systems, an AWS Sovereign Cloud Partner, addresses the growing demand for digital sovereignty. It explores the challenges businesses face in managing data security, regulatory compliance, and innovation in a cloud-first world. The post details T-Systems’ advanced solutions like Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) and dataspaces, which empower organizations to maintain control over their data, ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR, and enable trusted data collaboration across ecosystems. Tailored for industries like healthcare, finance, and the public sector, these offerings provide secure, scalable, and compliant tools for a digital-first era.

In a multi-cloud setup, using Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters requires adding NAT gateway IPs to the Rancher Load Balancer's Security Group. Due to Security Group limits of 1,000 IPs per ENI, employing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) is beneficial. WAF allows 100 IP sets with 10,000 IPs each, supporting up to 1 million IP addresses and providing enhanced logging and metrics.

Unlock the potential of secure cross-organizational data sharing with T-Systems and AWS. This strategic collaboration bridges the gap in achieving true data liberation and control. Experience the Connect Offering, Digital.ID, and LivingLab Sandbox, empowering you to participate effortlessly in data ecosystems while ensuring Gaia-X Conformity. T-Systems and AWS, together in the AWS Solutions Library, bring innovative, secure, and integrated solutions, putting you in control of your data.

Discover the collaborative innovation behind LivingLab, a cutting-edge software development environment developed by Telekom Data Intelligence Hub in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). LivingLab provides a secure sandbox environment, ensuring data sovereignty protection and compliance with industry standards like GAIA-X and IDSA. As proud partners listed in the AWS Solutions Library, we empower organizations through advanced analytics processing and streamlined data management, fostering industry collaboration and digital transformation.

By offering multiple cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, OTC, and GCP sovereign, we empower our customers to choose the cloud provider that aligns with their unique needs, preferences, and compliance requirements, giving them the flexibility and data sovereignty to optimize their cloud strategy. 

Integrating kubeapps with Keycloak and Pinniped on the cloud can provide a secure and streamlined experience for managing applications in a Kubernetes environment.