Innovative approach to AWS services

Client

A global financial institution with businesses across retail and corporate banking, global markets, insurance and wealth management.

Challenge

The customer had two specific requirements: firstly the need to compete with fintech digital banks such as Monzo and Starling, and secondly a Mastercard mandate which required the ability for customers to be able to subscribe to transaction alerts for UK debit and credit card transactions.

Solution

Delivered on AWS using a serverless architecture utilising EMR, AWS Kinesis, DynamoDB, AWS Aurora an AWS API Gateway combined with AWS Lambda for Compute and Identity authentication and AWS Direct Connect for secure network connectivity into the core banking landscape.

Airwalk Reply’s DevOps team designed, built, managed and deployed updates to this complex environment using an integrated DevOps pipeline based around Jenkins and AWS technologies, development and integration of the pipeline tools was a key enabler by Airwalk Reply for the programme.

Outcome

Airwalk Reply’s financial services experience helped the customer to design, build and run the new customer solution, allowing the client to adopt an innovative approach to AWS services while maintaining an informed and controlled risk position.