An Infrastructure for Banking Mobile Application (Eco-Bank)
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The Project
An Infrastructure for Banking Mobile Application (Eco-Bank)
The Challenge
In today’s digital era, mobile applications are crucial in the banking industry, offering customers convenient access to their accounts, transactions, and financial services. To provide a seamless and secure user experience, banks must leverage advanced cloud-based services. ECO-BANK requires an infrastructure that is highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, flexible, and secure.
The Solution
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS):
AWS EKS allows ECO-BANK to deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes. By utilizing EKS, the bank can effortlessly scale its mobile application, ensuring high availability and optimal performance. EKS provides automatic scaling, load balancing, and seamless deployment of new features, resulting in a reliable and responsive mobile banking experience for customers.
AWS Fargate:
AWS Fargate enables ECO-BANK to run containers without managing the underlying infrastructure. Fargate optimizes resource utilization and improves cost efficiency by dynamically scaling containerized workloads based on demand. This capability ensures that the mobile application can handle peak loads during busy periods, such as salary disbursements or promotional campaigns, without compromising performance or security.
AWS Aurora:
AWS Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that offers high-performance, scalable, and secure database capabilities. Leveraging Aurora, the bank can securely store and manage critical customer data, ensuring data integrity and availability. The mobile application benefits from reduced latency, improved read and write performance, and automated backups, providing customers with real-time access to their account information and transaction history.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare is a global content delivery network (CDN) and security provider. By integrating Cloudflare into the bank’s mobile application, ECO-BANK can enhance performance by caching static content closer to end-users, reducing latency and improving page load times. Additionally, Cloudflare’s security features protect against DDoS attacks, data breaches, and other cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive customer data and maintaining the integrity of the mobile application.
Datadog:
Datadog is a cloud monitoring and observability platform. By leveraging Datadog, the bank gains real-time visibility into the mobile application’s performance, including response times, resource utilization, and error rates. This allows the bank’s IT teams to proactively identify and resolve any performance bottlenecks or issues, ensuring a seamless and reliable mobile banking experience for customers.
Doppler:
Doppler is a secrets management solution that secures sensitive information such as API keys, database credentials, and other configuration settings. By utilizing Doppler, the bank can securely store and manage its application secrets, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access or exposure. This enhances the overall security posture of the mobile application and helps the bank adhere to regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
Result & Feedback
By leveraging AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, AWS Aurora, Cloudflare, Datadog, and Doppler, ECO-BANK significantly enhances its mobile application’s performance, scalability, security, and observability. Customers benefit from a reliable and responsive mobile banking experience with faster load times, real-time access to account information, and robust security measures. These services enable ECO-BANK to maintain a competitive edge in the digital banking landscape while ensuring customer satisfaction and trust in their mobile application.
Additional Benefits
Improved Development Agility:
With the automated and managed services provided by AWS, the development and operations teams at ECO-BANK can focus more on innovation and delivering new features rather than managing infrastructure. This improves the overall agility of the bank’s development processes, enabling faster time-to-market for new features and updates.
Regulatory Compliance:
The use of Doppler and other security measures ensures that ECO-BANK complies with regulatory requirements for data protection and privacy. This compliance is critical for maintaining customer trust and avoiding legal penalties.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
By leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure and Cloudflare’s CDN, ECO-BANK can ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. The bank’s mobile application can quickly recover from unexpected outages or disasters, minimizing downtime and maintaining customer trust.
Enhanced User Engagement:
With improved performance, security, and real-time access to information, the mobile application encourages higher user engagement. Customers are more likely to use and rely on the app for their banking needs, driving increased interaction and loyalty.
Ratings
Quality 5.0
Service & DeliverablesSchedule 5.0
On-time/deadlinesCost 5.0
Value / within estimatesWilling to Refer 5.0
NPS
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (‘ETI’) is the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading independent pan-African banking group. The Ecobank Group employs over 14,000 people and serves about 20 million customers in the consumer, commercial and corporate banking sectors across 33 African countries.
Industry: Financial Services
Locations: Lome – Togo