AWS Architectural Design for a Travel Payment Provider
Discover how we designed an AWS infrastructure to support an innovative payment platform within the travel industry. We developed a scalable, resilient, and secure environment by leveraging AWS best practices.
Client Overview
PayParc is a cutting-edge fintech startup that enables travel companies to manage payments instantaneously and automatically through e-wallets, resulting in significant cost savings. Their platform seamlessly integrates with a company’s existing booking systems, ensuring that both processes are synchronised and data-rich. PayParc verifies every transaction by cross-referencing it with booking data, providing real-time notifications to all parties, and generating detailed reconciliation reports.
Challenge
Managing Everything at Once
Building a robust platform requires immense effort. The infrastructure also needs to be scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and secure.
Balancing Priorities
PayParc faced the challenge of allocating time between product development and infrastructure creation. By partnering with us, they could concentrate on refining their platform while we engineered their AWS Cloud infrastructure.
Solution
We collaborated closely with the client's technology team to tailor an AWS environment that perfectly aligns with their platform's demands. Following AWS best practices, we designed and implemented a production-ready infrastructure that supports their continuous innovation.
- Infrastructure as Code: We utilised Terragrunt/Terraform for all development and enhancements, emphasising the importance of managing infrastructure as code.
- Network Segmentation: We began with VPC creation, establishing multiple subnets for public, private, database, Elasticache workloads, and VPNs. Access was meticulously restricted to ensure maximum security, with nothing exposed publicly.
- Optimised Container Management: The client's containerised workloads are managed within an AWS EKS cluster, offering encrypted data in transit and at rest. AWS Auto Scaling was configured to automatically adjust resources as needed, and SSL/TLS certificates are managed through AWS Certificate Manager.
- High-Availability Database: We deployed the client's primary database using AWS RDS across multiple availability zones, ensuring high availability and reducing management overhead.
- Resilient Caching: An Elasticache cluster, distributed across multiple availability zones, was created using AWS Elasticache to enhance platform resilience.
- Streamlined CI/CD Pipelines: With the client opting for GitLab, we configured dynamic GitLab runners on the Kubernetes cluster, automating application builds and tests without manually managing servers.
- Enhanced Observability: AWS CloudWatch was implemented to manage all infrastructure logging, ensuring that the client's team could monitor the platform's performance effortlessly.
Results
Easy to Manage Environment
The AWS infrastructure is fast, secure, and easy to manage, enabling the client to focus on innovation.
Highest Security
The platform adheres to the highest security standards, with all best practices thoroughly implemented.
Technology Stack
To successfully deploy the client’s platform, we utilised the following technologies:
- Database Service: AWS RDS
- Scaling and Load Balancing: AWS Auto Scaling
- Monitoring and Performance Tracking: AWS CloudWatch
- Caching Service: AWS Elasticache
By leveraging this robust technology stack, the client’s platform is now more scalable, secure, and efficient, ready to support their ongoing growth and innovation in the travel payment industry.