Early in our client’s cloud journey with AWS, they had yet to realize the benefits of a modern, cloud-native architecture. It lacked necessary resiliency, with no redundancy across regions. The infrastructure could not scale to meet spikes in traffic and expected demand.
These technical gaps posed risks for a successful launch. The development teams were struggling to build a platform that could deliver the necessary user experience. Application deployments were already hitting roadblocks from infrastructure upgrades that had not been completed.
With the launch date fast approaching, the pressure was intense. The client needed to rapidly implement cloud-native designs that could unlock the resilience, availability, and scalability required. It needed deep expertise across cloud adoption, architecture, delivery, and operations to pull this off in a short timeframe.
Technical gaps threatened the launch of a new credit card
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With a robust cloud-native credit card platform, our client is ready for a successful launch. The new infrastructure could scale seamlessly to manage over 1 million transactions per minute with 100,000 concurrent requests. Resiliency has been fundamentally improved through redundancy across regions and availability zones while meeting requirements for 99.999 percent uptime.
The platform was built for agility, with continuous deployment capabilities for both applications and infrastructure changes. This enables rapid iteration and innovation aligned to business needs. Rigorous controls and automation were implemented to manage risk and compliance. Monitoring and observability tools provide real-time insights into platform health.
Overall, the modern architecture, deployment processes, and management controls deliver the performance, availability, and agility required to compete in the digital era. The bank is positioned to rapidly expand its consumer business and capabilities based on this powerful foundation.
Massive processing power supports a successful launch
The successful launch marked the beginning of an ongoing focus on innovation. With the core credit card platform established, the container orchestration and other components were migrated to fully managed AWS services. This will drive further licensing cost savings and operational efficiency gains.
Additionally, the platform was expanded to support new products and service offerings beyond credit cards. The client has been leveraging the scalable, resilient infrastructure as a foundation for future growth and to align technology capabilities with business goals—critical for competing in the digital financial services landscape.
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