Executive Summary

As a leading financial services provider specializing in investment management and trading solutions, our client processes thousands of transactions daily, managing billions in assets across North America and Europe. The Matoffo team developed a fully automated CI/CD platform leveraging AWS services that enables the client to streamline their software delivery pipeline while maintaining strict security and compliance requirements.

About the Customer

A leading financial services provider specializing in investment management and trading solutions. Their platform handles critical trading operations and portfolio management for institutional clients, processing thousands of transactions daily and managing billions in assets. The company serves major financial institutions across North America and Europe.

Customer Challenge

In the rapidly evolving financial services sector, the client faced significant challenges in maintaining their software delivery pipeline and deployment processes. Their existing development and deployment workflows were bottlenecked by manual processes, creating delays in feature releases and increasing the risk of errors during deployments.

The manual nature of their CI/CD pipeline resulted in inconsistent environments, lengthy deployment cycles, and difficulties in maintaining compliance requirements across different stages. This situation was further complicated by the need to manage multiple environments while ensuring zero-downtime deployments for their critical trading applications.

Why AWS

AWS offers a comprehensive suite of DevOps services that perfectly align with modern software delivery requirements. The platform provides fully managed services for continuous integration and continuous deployment, enabling automated workflows while maintaining security and compliance.

Why Matoffo

When seeking a partner for critical DevOps transformation, organizations need expertise in both technical implementation and process optimization. Matoffo brings extensive experience in AWS DevOps practices and financial services requirements.

Our team’s proven track record in implementing secure, compliant CI/CD pipelines for financial institutions, combined with our deep understanding of AWS services, enables successful modernization initiatives. We focus on delivering solutions that enhance development efficiency while maintaining the highest security standards.

Matoffo Solution

Matoffo implemented a fully automated and containerized CI/CD solution that adhered to the architecture depicted in the diagram. The solution ensured high availability, security, and operational efficiency:

1. Infrastructure Components:

Amazon ECS with Fargate: Managed containerized workloads with auto-scaling to meet varying demands.

Application Load Balancer (ALB): Distributed traffic across ECS tasks in multiple availability zones for fault tolerance and reliability.

Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL): Implemented with a master-replica configuration and asynchronous replication to support high-availability database operations.

CI/CD Pipeline Implementation:

1. AWS CodePipeline orchestrating the entire deployment workflow:

Source stage integrated with GitHub repository

Build stage using AWS CodeBuild

Deploy stage using AWS CodeDeploy

Amazon ECR for container image management

S3 bucket for artifact storage, caching, and Terraform State management

ECS Task Definitions for container deployment specifications

Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

2. Security and Monitoring:

AWS CloudWatch: Provided centralized logging and real-time alerts to track application health and detect issues early.

AWS WAF: Protected the application from malicious web traffic and ensured compliance with financial regulations.

Amazon CloudFront: Accelerated the delivery of static and dynamic content, reducing latency for users.

High Availability Architecture:

The infrastructure was designed across two availability zones to ensure redundancy:

ECS tasks and ALB were deployed in both availability zones, ensuring failover capability in case of a regional outage.

RDS databases with a master-replica setup provided automatic failover for consistent data availability.

High-level solution diagram

High-level deployment diagram

Business Value

1. Development Efficiency:

Reduced deployment time from days to hours by automating build and deployment processes

Improved development velocity, reducing time-to-market for new features by 60%

2. Quality and Reliability:

Implemented consistent environments across development, staging, and production, eliminating environment-specific issues

Enabled zero-downtime deployments to ensure uninterrupted trading operations

3. Cost Optimization:

Reduced development infrastructure costs by 45% through optimized resource utilization and dynamic scaling

Eliminated manual deployment overhead, improving operational efficiency

Client's Feedback

“Matoffo’s expertise in AWS and DevOps practices has transformed our software delivery process. The automated CI/CD pipeline they implemented significantly improved our deployment reliability and speed while maintaining our strict security and compliance requirements. Zero-downtime deployments have been a game-changer for our trading operations, ensuring seamless updates and uninterrupted service to our clients.”– Chief Technology Officer