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Financial Services & Payments · Migration & Modernization · AWS

How a leading African payments platform made its staging environment operational on AWS in just 3 weeks

The company operates a large-scale payments platform connecting banks, mobile money providers, money transfer operators, enterprises, and consumers to enable cross-border and domestic digital payments across Africa. As transaction volumes and platform demands grew, its existing infrastructure needed a more scalable, secure, and resilient foundation. Flentas designed and implemented a cloud migration and modernization strategy, migrating the company's staging environment to AWS and making it operational within three weeks.

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A leading African payments platformPan-African payments networkBanks, mobile money & money transfer operatorsHigh-volume digital payments
At a Glance
3 weeksStaging environment migrated and made operational
Managed & HACore databases modernized for reliability
StandardizedSecurity, monitoring, and operations across the platform
The Challenge

Legacy infrastructure was limiting agility as payment volumes grew

As the business expanded and digital payment adoption accelerated, the existing infrastructure and operating model created challenges around scalability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.

Infrastructure modernization needs

The existing environment required modernization to support growing workloads and provide a more scalable foundation.

Scalability and performance demands

Increasing transaction volumes required infrastructure that could scale with demand while maintaining performance during peak activity.

Security and governance requirements

Operating a large-scale payments platform required stronger security, monitoring, and compliance controls across the environment.

Connectivity and migration complexity

The platform needed secure connectivity between cloud environments and external systems, while migration planning had to protect business continuity.

The Approach

A structured cloud migration built for continuity and scale

Flentas designed and implemented a modern cloud operating model focused on scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.

  1. 01

    Established the AWS migration foundation

  2. 02

    Modernized the application and database layers

  3. 03

    Strengthened security and observability

  4. 04

    Established secure connectivity and standardized operations

Business Outcome

Faster to deploy. Easier to scale. More resilient.

Accelerated cloud migration

With the staging environment successfully migrated to AWS and made operational within three weeks.

Improved scalability

With a flexible cloud foundation designed to support increasing transaction volumes and evolving business requirements.

Stronger security and governance

Through centralized security controls, monitoring, and audit capabilities.

Enhanced reliability and resilience

With managed services and modernized infrastructure improving availability and fault tolerance.

Greater operational efficiency

With standardized processes and managed platform services reducing infrastructure management overhead.

Better visibility and monitoring

Enabling faster issue detection and more proactive troubleshooting.

Technologies & Partners

Built on the AWS stack

Amazon EKSAmazon EC2Amazon RDS for MySQLAmazon S3AWS Transit GatewaySite-to-Site VPNAWS Secrets ManagerAWS WAFAWS CloudTrailAmazon CloudWatchAmazon SNSAmazon ECRAWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
Common Questions

What payments platforms usually ask about this kind of cloud migration

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Where this fits

BFSI

For banks, NBFCs, insurers, and fintechs, every release carries regulatory weight and every minute of downtime shows up in the news and in the numbers. Flentas helps you migrate, secure, and run your cloud so you can ship new products quickly, keep regulators satisfied, and hold uptime through your busiest days. From a 125 year old lender modernizing its core to a fintech scaling its first million users, we build the foundation that lets financial firms move fast without breaking what customers trust. Regulated. Resilient. AI ready.

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