Payment Gateway Uptime
Vanguard Pay Systems
Achieved 99.999% transaction uptime and automated SOC 2 compliance for rapid-growth fintech
StatementCareThe existing monolithic on-premise infrastructure suffered from thermal throttling, inflexible static server allocations, and fragile failover routines. Every Black Friday weekend resulted in checkout gateway degradation and lost sales exceeding $2.4M.
We containerized their core commerce services using Docker and orchestrated an EKS Kubernetes deployment managed by Terraform. We engineered a dual-write pipeline to keep relational databases synchronized between the legacy datacenter and AWS during live operations.
A high-availability, multi-region AWS topology featuring Amazon EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL with read replicas, CloudFront edge caching, and automated GitOps deployment pipelines. Ingress traffic was gradually shifted via weighted DNS over 48 hours without dropping a single active customer cart.
“The migration felt like magic. Our checkout stayed live, our developers now ship daily instead of monthly, and our monthly cloud bill dropped by over $100,000 immediately.”
Payment Gateway Uptime
Achieved 99.999% transaction uptime and automated SOC 2 compliance for rapid-growth fintech
Security Breaches Post-Deployment
Hardened perimeter and eliminated ransomware exposure across 38 regional clinical facilities