Executive Summary

As a leading fintech company specializing in luxury goods protection, our client required a robust cloud operations foundation to support their global API-integrated platform. The Matoffo team implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code solution with advanced monitoring capabilities that enables automated disaster recovery, proactive issue detection, and optimized resource utilization.

About the Customer

A global fintech company revolutionizing the luxury goods ecosystem through their API-integrated platform that embeds theft and damage protection into luxury products. Their platform provides global coverage without additional costs for end consumers, serving major luxury brands worldwide.

Customer Challenge

In today’s rapidly evolving fintech landscape, maintaining operational excellence while ensuring disaster recovery capabilities presents significant challenges. The client faced critical difficulties in managing their cloud infrastructure across multiple regions while maintaining strict security and compliance requirements.

Their existing setup lacked automated infrastructure deployment capabilities and comprehensive monitoring, leading to increased recovery times during incidents and inefficient resource utilization. The absence of standardized observability practices made it difficult to maintain consistent performance across their global platform.

Why AWS

AWS provides comprehensive infrastructure automation and monitoring capabilities essential for modern cloud operations. The platform’s Infrastructure-as-Code services, including CloudFormation and integrated monitoring tools, ensure consistent deployment and observability across multiple regions. AWS’s integrated tools like CloudWatch, AWS Config, and GuardDuty enable proactive monitoring and automated remediation, making it the ideal foundation for resilient cloud operations.

Why Matoffo

When seeking a partner for critical cloud operations transformation, organizations need expertise in both infrastructure automation and operational excellence. Matoffo brings extensive experience in AWS cloud operations and disaster recovery implementations. Our proven track record in implementing secure, compliant cloud solutions, combined with our deep understanding of fintech requirements, enables successful operational transformations.

Matoffo Solution

We implemented a comprehensive cloud operations platform leveraging AWS services for complete automation and operational excellence. The solution includes:

Infrastructure Components:

Multi-AZ VPC configuration with public and private subnets

Amazon ECS with Fargate for containerized applications

Amazon RDS Aurora with cross-region replication

Amazon ElastiCache for session management

AWS CloudFront for content delivery

Infrastructure as Code:

AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning:

Network components and security groups templates

ECS clusters and task definitions stacks

RDS instances and parameter groups templates

S3 buckets and IAM policies stacks

CloudFormation nested stacks for modularity:

Lambda functions and EventBridge rules

CloudWatch dashboards and alarms

Custom metrics and filters

CloudFormation change sets for controlled updates

Monitoring and Observability:

Amazon CloudWatch for comprehensive monitoring:

Custom metrics and dashboards

Container insights for ECS

RDS performance insights

Application logs and traces

AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing

AWS CloudTrail for API activity monitoring

GuardDuty for threat detection

Disaster Recovery:

Multi-region CloudFormation stack deployment

Automated backup and restore procedures

Cross-region replication for critical data

Route 53 health checks and failover routing

Business Value

Operational Excellence:

• Reduced recovery time objective (RTO) to 24 hours
• Decreased incident resolution time by 70%
• Automated 85% of infrastructure deployments

Monitoring Effectiveness:

• Real-time visibility into platform health
• 90% reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD)
• Proactive issue resolution capability
• Comprehensive compliance monitoring

Cost Optimization:

• 45% reduction in operational costs
• Improved resource utilization
• Automated cost allocation
• Efficient multi-region operations

Client's Feedback

“Matoffo’s implementation has transformed our cloud operations. Their expertise in infrastructure automation and monitoring has significantly improved our platform’s resilience and operational efficiency. We now have complete visibility and control over our infrastructure, allowing us to focus on delivering innovative fintech solutions to our customers.”