Client Background
A rapidly growing fintech company operating in the payments and wealth management space, serving millions of users through an API-first digital ecosystem.
Challenge:Achieving Hyperscale Performance & Innovation Velocity
- Existing data center infrastructure could not scale with increasing API traffic.
- New product prototyping cycles took months, delaying market launches.
- Rising infrastructure costs were eroding profit margins.
- Teams were spending excessive time managing infrastructure instead of innovating.
Solution: AWS Serverless-First Cloud Transformation
- Built a serverless-first architecture on AWS.
- Utilized AWS Lambda for elastic compute and Graviton-powered EC2 instances for high-throughput workloads.
- Achieved massive scalability with automatic resource optimization.
- Enabled faster development and deployment through a modern cloud-native approach.
Managed Services Engagement
Partnered with a FinOps and DevOps-focused managed services provider to ensure continuous optimization and automation.
Key activities included:
- Implementation of cost governance frameworks to control cloud spend.
- Development of a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for faster releases.
- Continuous monitoring and infrastructure optimization.
- Internal teams redirected focus toward product innovation and customer experience.
Key Outcome
- Innovation speed increased by 700%, accelerating product launch cycles.
- Infrastructure TCO reduced by 35%.
- Seamless scalability enabled sustained performance under millions of daily API calls.
- Achieved simultaneous optimization of speed, cost, and reliability.