Kolisa Microfinance Bank
Kolisa Microfinance Bank is a financial institution focused on empowering
individuals and businesses with innovative financial solutions. Kolisa offers a
range of products, including loans, investments, savings, and bill payments, all
designed to promote the financial growth and independence of its customers. The
bank is developing a mobile banking application to provide secure, scalable, and
efficient banking experiences.
Industry Vertical
Banking and Financial Services
The Challenges
Kolisa aimed to launch a mobile banking app that could support its growing customer base with secure and scalable infrastructure. The key challenges included:
- Scalability and Performance: The application needed to handle a
large number of concurrent users and transactions, particularly
during peak usage times.
- Security and Compliance: Ensuring sensitive financial data
was protected through encryption and robust security
protocols.
- Cost Efficiency and Disaster Recovery: The bank needed
to optimize infrastructure costs while ensuring reliable
backup and disaster recovery processes were in place.
Solution
- Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC: Virtualized compute resources (EC2) combined with a private, secure network (VPC) to host the mobile banking application, ensuring scalability and security.
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB): Distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers, allowing the application to handle high user activity and peak loads.
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Encryption: Advanced security to protect the application from malicious traffic and encrypt sensitive financial data to ensure compliance.
- Amazon S3 and AWS Backup: Secure, scalable cloud storage S3 for backups, ensuring data durability and easy recovery in case of an issue.
- Amazon CloudWatch:Monitoring and alerting service to track application performance and manage costs effectively by identifying potential inefficiencies.
Results
- Successful Deployment and Scalability:With Elastic Load Balancing in place, Kolisa successfully scaled its mobile banking app to handle a 50% increase in customer activity and peak load without performance degradation.
- Enhanced Security and Resilience: AWS WAF, encryption, and disaster recovery capabilities ensured Kolisa met security standards and minimized downtime, earning customer trust in the platform.
- Effective Monitoring and Cost Optimization: Amazon CloudWatch provided valuable insights into application health, allowing Kolisa to optimize resource usage and reduce operational costs by 18% over six months.
- Seamless Transition to Production: The infrastructure’s scalability and security features enabled Kolisa to transition smoothly from development to production, ensuring the app was ready to meet both current and future demands.
