Sunray Group
AWS-CloudFormation-Service
Industry Vertical – Hospitality
The Client
Sunray Group is a family-owned, multifaceted corporation specializing in hospitality and development. Sunray believes in the strength of brand equity. The group is successfully building an ever-increasing portfolio of award-winning brands, which include Marriott, Starwood, Hilton, Radisson, Best Western, IHG, Wyndham and Choice Hotels. They have also developed prominent brands such as Tim Horton's, McDonald's, Fionn McCool’s, Shell and Petro Canada.
The Challenge
Sunray was scaling rapidly across geographic regions and AWS accounts. Their DevOps team faced challenges in managing hybrid workloads (EC2, EKS, Lambda), ensuring policy compliance, and enforcing security standards across a multi-account landing zone.
The Solution
Sunray implemented CloudFormation StackSets to deploy and manage resources across AWS Organizations. They used Jenkins-integrated pipelines for infrastructure deployments and cfn-python-lint and cfn-nag for automated compliance validation. Templates were structured modularly and used AWS macros and custom resources for scalability.
Key architecture components:
- Hybrid workloads combining EC2, EKS, Lambda, and SageMaker
- Secure parameter injection using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Template validation in pre-commit Git hooks and Jenkins
- Resource outputs provided for operational clarity (e.g., bastion host IP, VPC endpoints)
- Templates managed in Git with change tracking and audit trail
Outcome & Benefits
- Multi-region, multi-account deployment consistency via StackSets
- Automated enforcement of compliance and security standards
- Strong governance without sacrificing agility
- Accelerated go-to-market timelines for new services
