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Porch reduces multi-cloud complexity with Google Cloud migration

Seattle-based Porch Group Inc., a leading provider of home and moving services, faced growing operational and security challenges due to a complex, fragmented multi-cloud environment spanning AWS and Azure. This divided infrastructure undermined efficient operations, complicated network management, and increased security risk.

To address these issues and unlock future innovation, Porch partnered with Pythian to consolidate their services and migrated to Google Cloud. Pythian’s Google Cloud consultants executed a meticulous migration, eliminating remnant AWS and Azure services, simplifying network routing, and moving the Content Delivery Network (CDN) to Google Cloud. This strategic migration significantly reduced complexity, created essential cost efficiencies, and established a simplified, secure platform ready to support Porch's ambitious plans for advanced data analytics and Gen AI applications.

Learn how Porch achieved significant cost reduction, streamlined network management, and enhanced security with Pythian's Google Cloud migration consulting expertise.

75%

Reduction in multi-cloud management overhead

With Pythian's support and guidance, Porch was successful in significantly reducing the cost of their cloud management.

Cloud provider for all core operations

By consolidating the migration and management of their cloud initiatives under one service provider of record, Porch can now align more effectively toward their specific cloud goals.

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Customers with improved experiences

With the move to Google Cloud, and Porch's enhanced ability to streamline the experience of their platform, its customers will now have a much improved experience when leveraging the software.

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Customer

Porch Group Inc. is a market leader in the home and moving services industry, offering a comprehensive moving concierge service designed to simplify the often-stressful relocation process for homebuyers. By bridging the gap between consumers and critical service providers—including insurance, home inspectors, moving companies, and utility providers—Porch ensures customers make well-informed decisions throughout their move. The company relies heavily on its digital platform to manage a vast ecosystem of partners and transactions, underscoring the necessity of a modern, efficient, and secure IT infrastructure to support its high-growth business model.

Complex multi-cloud environment undermined efficient operations

Porch initially undertook a partial "lift-and-shift" migration to Google Cloud in 2017 but was left with remnant services running across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. This complex, multi-cloud environment created significant operational challenges. The dispersed infrastructure increased management overhead, complicated network routing (like using an AWS vSRX Router requiring specialized Juniper skills the internal team lacked), and made achieving a holistic view of security difficult. Specifically, its previous routing process involved multiple platforms, posing a risk of misdirected traffic and complicating maintenance and troubleshooting. This complexity also posed a security risk, as the larger attack surface required more diverse expertise and undermined efficient threat detection. Porch needed to consolidate onto a single cloud platform to simplify management, enhance security, and accelerate its long-term strategic goals for data modernization.

Security risk

Fragmented infrastructure increased the attack surface and reduced threat detection capabilities without a unified security view.

Complex network routing

Previous routing processes were multi-stepped and relied on a specialized AWS vSRX Router, adding unnecessary complexity and maintenance risk.

Skills shortage

Operating in a multi-cloud environment required a greater variety of deep technical expertise (e.g., Juniper virtual routers) that the internal team lacked.

Hindered innovation

Remnant services and operational complexity were undermining efforts to modernize the data platform for advanced analytics and AI insights.

Pythian migrates Porch to Google Cloud: Boosting performance and streamlining operations

To achieve their goal of going “all in” on Google Cloud—thereby streamlining operations, reducing management overhead, and leveraging GCP's integration opportunities for advanced data analytics and AI—Porch partnered with Pythian. Porch chose Pythian for its specialized expertise in complex cloud migration and network optimization within the Google Cloud ecosystem. Pythian’s primary objective was to consolidate and clean up the remaining cloud and security posture. Pythian's team successfully eliminated reliance on Azure and AWS VPN setups to simplify network routing and migrated the Content Delivery Network (CDN) and associated assets from AWS to Google Cloud. This comprehensive approach standardized the environment onto a single, easier-to-administer platform.

Furthermore, Porch’s strategic three-year commitment to Google Cloud, coupled with Partner Services Funding (PSF), enabled them to invest in Premium Support, augmenting their small IT team with priority access to Pythian's technical experts for ongoing stability and guidance.

Strategic consolidation

Pythian helped Porch execute the “all in” strategy on Google Cloud to streamline IT management and reduce the overall operational burden.

Simplified network routing

Eliminated reliance on complex third-party routers (like AWS vSRX) and simplified the current VPN setup, removing unnecessary complexity and points of failure.

Content Delivery Network migration

Successfully migrated the critical CDN platform, including origin and assets, from AWS Cloud to the native Google Cloud CDN and Storage (GCS).

Augmented support

Investment in Google Cloud Premium Support, enabled by contract discounts and PSF, provided the small IT team with priority access to expert assistance.

"This project is the start of an ambitious plan to modernize our cloud infrastructure, unlocking capacity to modernize our data platform to cloud-native services. In turn, it facilitates shorter cycle times to put the right data in the right hands for Gen AI applications and use cases.”

Khan Klatt

Senior Director of Software Engineering, Porch Group Inc.

Porch reduced multi-cloud complexity with Google Cloud migration

The migration service delivered by Pythian resulted in a direct, positive impact on Porch’s operational efficiency and strategic readiness. By achieving a single-cloud environment, Porch significantly reduced unnecessary complexity, eliminating the specialized skill requirements and maintenance overhead associated with multi-cloud management. This simplification minimized potential points of failure and reduced the attack surface, leading to a more secure environment that is easier to administer and monitor.

Furthermore, the migration was a crucial step in the company's long-term strategy, as it unlocked capacity for the IT team to pivot away from maintenance and focus on modernizing their data platform to cloud-native services. This modernization is foundational, directly facilitating shorter cycle times to deploy the right data for future Gen AI applications and use cases, accelerating Porch's path to innovation and data-driven competitive advantage.

Reduced complexity and risk

Consolidated operations minimized potential points of failure, simplifying network management and reducing security vulnerabilities across the environment.

Found cost efficiencies

Reduced reliance on multiple providers and services, combined with a three-year commitment discount, led to tangible cost optimization for cloud infrastructure.

Increased IT capacity

Elimination of the need for specialized multi-cloud skills allowed the internal IT team to focus on core services and strategic initiatives like data platform modernization.

Enabled future innovation

The clean, unified infrastructure created the necessary foundation and "shorter cycle times" to implement advanced data analytics and Gen AI applications.

What We Do

Porch reduces multi-cloud complexity with Google Cloud migration

Reduction in multi-cloud management overhead

Cloud provider for all core operations

Customers with improved experiences

Pythian and Porch Group—a partnership for cloud transformation

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