Customer Overview:
The customer is a fast-growing digital financial services company that specializes in offering end-toend wealth management, lending, and payment solutions to retail and institutional clients. The customer is in a highly regulated space and uses state-of-the-art technology to provide secure, scalable, and seamless financial experiences. With AWS-hosted workloads, the customer was looking for end-to-end managed services to enable their growth, guarantee compliance, and streamline cloud expenditure.
Business Need:
After a successful migration to AWS Cloud, the finance firm required expert managed services to ensure 24/7 infrastructure monitoring, governance, and optimization. With rapid growth and increasing workloads, the customer needed to maintain high availability, meet regulatory compliance requirements, and control cloud costs—without compromising performance or security.
Implementation:
- Cost Optimization: Performed thorough cost audits and utilization of resources. Implemented rightsizing methodologies and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance models to substantially lower operational costs.
- Security & Compliance: Used AWS Config, CloudTrail, and AWS Security Hub for real-time monitoring of governance, risk, and compliance. Used AWS KMS and Amazon Macie for encryption of data and detection of sensitive data according to financial regulations such as PCI-DSS and GDPR.
- Infrastructure Automation: Utilized AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and CloudFormation for patch management and infrastructure-as-code processes streamlined for better consistency and less manual intervention.
- High Availability & Resilience: Used Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, Amazon Aurora, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to provide high performance of databases and failover functionality.
- Scalability & Performance Tuning: Improved compute resources via Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EKS to make sure that applications scaled as needed when trading was on and peak transactions occurred.
AWS Services Utilized:
- AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS Config & AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon RDS / Aurora
- AWS KMS & Amazon Macie
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Savings Plans / Reserved Instances
- Amazon CloudWatch & Trusted Advisor
Reaping Rewards:
- 35% Cost Savings:Streamlined usage and reserved pricing practices dramatically decreased monthly cloud expenditure.
- Improved Security & Compliance:Active security posture through ongoing monitoring guaranteed adherence to industry standards.
- Enhanced System Reliability: Auto-scaling and fault-tolerant architecture enhanced uptime and transaction processing performance.
- Rapid Incident Response: Real-time alerts and automated remediation minimized downtime and enhanced customer satisfaction.
- Agility to Innovate: Released from day-to-day infrastructure worries, the customer is now able to concentrate on improving financial products and services.