Finance & Capital Markets
Securities Exchange
Cloud Migration & Disaster Recovery
Industry
Finance & Capital Markets
Services Used
AWS Services
Client Context
A major securities exchange in the Caribbean, responsible for critical financial infrastructure and regulatory compliance. After experiencing near-misses during recent hurricane seasons, leadership faced mounting pressure from regulators to modernize their infrastructure and implement proper disaster recovery capabilities.
The Problem
- Legacy on-premise infrastructure with no redundancy or failover capabilities
- No disaster recovery plan — a single point of failure for critical financial systems
- Regulatory pressure post-hurricane to demonstrate resilience and business continuity
- Internal IT team lacked cloud expertise and bandwidth for a major migration
What We Delivered
- Full migration of all production workloads to AWS
- Multi-AZ architecture with automated failover for high availability
- Disaster recovery implementation meeting regulatory RTO/RPO requirements
- Ongoing managed SRE services for 24/7 monitoring and incident response
- Documentation and runbooks for audit and compliance purposes
Measured Outcomes
53% cost reduction
in infrastructure costs post-migration
RTO < 1 hour
Recovery Time Objective achieved
RPO < 10 minutes
Recovery Point Objective achieved
Zero unplanned downtime
since migration completed
Improved audit readiness
with documented DR procedures
Why This Matters
For regulated financial institutions, infrastructure isn't just an IT concern — it's a matter of regulatory compliance and market stability. This engagement showed that cloud migration, done right, delivers both cost savings and the resilience that regulators increasingly demand. The 53% cost reduction was significant, but the real value was transforming from a single-point-of-failure operation to an enterprise that can weather any storm.
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