Multinational Banking Financial Services Institution
The customer is a prominent international banking and financial services organization offering a comprehensive range of services including retail, commercial, and investment banking, as well as wealth management and asset services.
Business Challenge
The customer needed to securely and efficiently exchange large volumes of messages with their partners. They faced challenges around capacity planning, sizing, deployment, and monitoring. Additionally, they required end-to-end encryption and audit compliance to meet security and regulatory needs.
Why Amazon Web Services
The customer chose AWS to leverage the scalability, security, and reliability of the AWS Cloud for their messaging solution.
The AWS Solution
- The solution leveraged the following AWS services:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for running the IBM MQ Advanced queue managers
- AWS Auto Scaling to automatically scale the MQ resources based on demand
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to provide a secure, isolated network environment
- AWS Availability Zones and AWS Regions for high availability and disaster recovery
- AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for encryption key management
- The solution architecture included:
- Redundant and disaster recovery queue manager architecture deployed across multiple AWS Availability Zones and AWS Regions
- Secure two-way communication between queue managers using MQ sender/receiver channels
- End-to-end encryption using AWS KMS and MQ Advanced security features
- Audit logging for compliance with regulatory requirements
Business Results
- By implementing their messaging solution on AWS, the customer realized the following benefits:
- Reduced operational costs by leveraging AWS's elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing model
- Ability to reliably handle large and fluctuating message volumes with auto-scaling
- Faster deployment times using automated provisioning of MQ on AWS
- Secure transfer of messages across different systems with end-to-end encryption
- Compliance with regulatory requirements via MQ-integrated audit logging
- High availability and disaster recovery across multiple AWS Availability Zones and Regions
The customer gained a scalable, secure, and compliant enterprise messaging backbone on AWS to efficiently exchange high volumes of data with partners and customers.
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