Industry
Finance
Edge device transformation
Reducing operational cost without
compromising on security
A free personal financial management service provider – used by more than 50,000+ consumers. It connects a customer’s financial information, such as bank accounts, credit cards, and bills—and presents the information in a single place. It updates and categorises information in real-time, so customers can see the status of their finances, track their spending, and keep a close eye on their investments.

The Challenge
Their website was originally hosted in an internal data centre, but the team needed to improve its ability to scale up or down to meet peak traffic demands. They wanted to be able to scale up for that peak load automatically without spending a lot of time and money acquiring and provisioning new servers every time.
The approach
It made sense to migrate to the cloud, but we had to make sure we found the right cloud provider. Given that our customer is managing financial data, security was of paramount importance. We needed a cloud company that provided strong security capabilities.
The Solution
The customer initially migrated more than 100 MySQL instances to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Approximately one year later, as part of this optimisation effort, the company migrated its MySQL instances from Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS for MySQL.
They also use AWS CloudFormation templates, which give the company’s administrators a way to provision and manage its AWS resources easily, and employs Amazon CloudFront, a global content-delivery network (CDN) service designed to speed the delivery of websites and other web assets, to deliver its content.