AWS Cloud Architecture
for Financial Application

Scalable and secure cloud infrastructure to handle increasing transaction volumes

Cloud: AWS

Responsibility: Project Delivery

Challenge

1. A prominent fintech company in India approached firecaat to modernize their infrastructure.
2. They faced limited scalability to handle growing customer demands.
3. There were concerns over data security and regulatory compliance.
4. High operational costs were a major challenge.
5. Deployment and management of applications were inefficient.
6. The company lacked real-time data processing, hindering timely decision-making.

Solution

1. firecaat designed and implemented a comprehensive AWS-based solution for the fintech company.
2. Static content was hosted on Amazon S3 with CloudFront for faster delivery.
3. AWS WAF v2 protected against layer 7 attacks.
4. Federated authentication from Active Directory to AWS was enabled via Amazon Cognito.
5. AWS API Gateway managed APIs securely at scale.
6. Backend services were deployed on ECS Fargate with a Network Load Balancer.
7. EC2 instances in private VPC subnets supported secure custom services.
8. Data management included RDS/Aurora with encryption, AWS ElastiCache for in-memory storage, and AWS MSK for real-time data ingestion.
9. Security was strengthened with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Secrets Manager for credential management.
10. Enhanced CloudWatch logging and alerting improved monitoring and performance tracking.

Results

The new AWS infrastructure delivered significant benefits, including enhanced scalability to handle increased transaction volumes, improved security measures for financial data protection, and reduced operational costs. Real-time data processing capabilities enabled better decision-making, while streamlined CI/CD processes accelerated deployment times. The multi-region setup ensured high availability and minimal downtime, improving overall business continuity and security posture.

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