FinTech
Global Active-Active Payment Gateway on AWS
Design a zero-downtime payment processing infrastructure capable of handling 50k+ TPS while maintaining PCI-DSS compliance.
Our role: Lead Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
The challenge
Regional AWS outages and high latency for cross-border transactions; required Multi-Region Active-Active architecture with instant failover and data consistency.
What Devs & Logics delivered
- Solution 1: Multi-region setup (US-East-1 & EU-West-1) using Route53 latency-based routing + health checks
- Solution 2: DynamoDB Global Tables for sub-second multi-master replication
- Solution 3: EKS + Karpenter for rapid autoscaling
- Solution 4: Transit Gateway and AWS Network Firewall for strict network isolation
- Solution 5: mTLS (Istio) for service-to-service security
Outcomes
- Achieved 99.999% availability (Five Nines)
- Reduced cross-border latency by 40%
- Zero downtime recorded during regional failure drills
Technologies
AWSRoute 53EKSDynamoDB Global TablesTransit GatewayTerraformIstioGitHub ActionsOPA
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