Solution Development: ARCA Payments Company
About Client
ARCA, a leading Nigerian fintech company, offers a comprehensive suite of payment processing and management solutions catering to businesses across Nigeria. Their services include payment processing, disbursement and collection services, merchant services, and terminal management. Facing challenges in scalability, security, and operational efficiency, ARCA partnered with Qucoon, an advanced AWS Partner, to leverage AWS managed services. This partnership aimed to enhance ARCA's infrastructure, enabling them to scale securely and efficiently while maintaining high performance and reliability.
Challenges
ARCA's rapid growth and the increasing demand for digital payment solutions in Nigeria presented several challenges:
- Scalability: ARCA needed to scale its infrastructure dynamically to handle growing transaction volumes without compromising performance.
- Security and Compliance: Protecting sensitive financial data against escalating cyber threats was paramount.
- Operational Efficiency: ARCA sought to improve its operational efficiency to support its expanding suite of services without increasing overhead costs significantly.
How Qucoon Helped
Qucoon devised a comprehensive solution leveraging AWS managed services to address ARCA's challenges, focusing on scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Amazon CloudWatch was used for monitoring and observability, allowing ARCA to gain insights into application performance and operational health, enabling proactive issue resolution and system optimization.
- AWS Lambda was leveraged to run code in response to triggers such as changes in data or system state, enabling ARCA to operate more efficiently by automating tasks and processes.
- Amazon Cognito was deployed for secure user authentication across ARCA's applications, safeguarding access to ARCA's systems.
- AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) and AWS Shield were utilized to protect against common web exploits and DDoS attacks, ensuring the security of sensitive financial data.
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) was employed to manage encryption keys, securing data at rest and in transit.
- Amazon EC2 instances were utilized to ensure dynamic scalability and high availability of ARCA's payment processing platform.
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) was implemented to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances, ensuring reliable performance even during peak load times.
- Amazon RDS was used to manage ARCA's databases, providing high availability, durability, and automated backups, ensuring data integrity and reducing administrative burdens.
- Amazon API Gateway was used to create, publish, maintain, and secure APIs at any scale, facilitating easy integration with third-party services and partners.
Outcome
The AWS managed services solution implemented by Qucoon delivered transformative outcomes for ARCA:
- Cost Optimization: Well Architected Review and implementation of recommendation reduced ARCA’s cost by 30%. This enabled them to invest in additional AWS services.
- Robust Security: The comprehensive security measures implemented have fortified ARCA's infrastructure against cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive data and building trust with their customers.
- Increased Operational Efficiency: Automation and improved monitoring have streamlined ARCA's operations, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth while maintaining high levels of service quality.
- Enhanced Scalability and Reliability: ARCA can now effortlessly handle a significant increase in transaction volumes, experiencing 60% growth in volume in 4 months with smooth and reliable payment processing even during peak periods (0% failure rate and transaction response time down to 2 secs from 64 secs).
About Client
About Client
ARCA, a leading Nigerian fintech company, offers a comprehensive suite of payment processing and management solutions catering to businesses across Nigeria. Their services include payment processing, disbursement and collection services, merchant services, and terminal management. Facing challenges in scalability, security, and operational efficiency, ARCA partnered with Qucoon, an advanced AWS Partner, to leverage AWS managed services. This partnership aimed to enhance ARCA's infrastructure, enabling them to scale securely and efficiently while maintaining high performance and reliability.
Challenges
ARCA's rapid growth and the increasing demand for digital payment solutions in Nigeria presented several challenges:
- Scalability: ARCA needed to scale its infrastructure dynamically to handle growing transaction volumes without compromising performance.
- Security and Compliance: Protecting sensitive financial data against escalating cyber threats was paramount.
- Operational Efficiency: ARCA sought to improve its operational efficiency to support its expanding suite of services without increasing overhead costs significantly.
How Qucoon Helped
Qucoon devised a comprehensive solution leveraging AWS managed services to address ARCA's challenges, focusing on scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Amazon CloudWatch was used for monitoring and observability, allowing ARCA to gain insights into application performance and operational health, enabling proactive issue resolution and system optimization.
- AWS Lambda was leveraged to run code in response to triggers such as changes in data or system state, enabling ARCA to operate more efficiently by automating tasks and processes.
- Amazon Cognito was deployed for secure user authentication across ARCA's applications, safeguarding access to ARCA's systems.
- AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) and AWS Shield were utilized to protect against common web exploits and DDoS attacks, ensuring the security of sensitive financial data.
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) was employed to manage encryption keys, securing data at rest and in transit.
- Amazon EC2 instances were utilized to ensure dynamic scalability and high availability of ARCA's payment processing platform.
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) was implemented to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances, ensuring reliable performance even during peak load times.
- Amazon RDS was used to manage ARCA's databases, providing high availability, durability, and automated backups, ensuring data integrity and reducing administrative burdens.
- Amazon API Gateway was used to create, publish, maintain, and secure APIs at any scale, facilitating easy integration with third-party services and partners.
Outcome
The AWS managed services solution implemented by Qucoon delivered transformative outcomes for ARCA:
- Cost Optimization: Well Architected Review and implementation of recommendation reduced ARCA’s cost by 30%. This enabled them to invest in additional AWS services.
- Robust Security: The comprehensive security measures implemented have fortified ARCA's infrastructure against cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive data and building trust with their customers.
- Increased Operational Efficiency: Automation and improved monitoring have streamlined ARCA's operations, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth while maintaining high levels of service quality.
- Enhanced Scalability and Reliability: ARCA can now effortlessly handle a significant increase in transaction volumes, experiencing 60% growth in volume in 4 months with smooth and reliable payment processing even during peak periods (0% failure rate and transaction response time down to 2 secs from 64 secs).
Business Background
About Client
ARCA, a leading Nigerian fintech company, offers a comprehensive suite of payment processing and management solutions catering to businesses across Nigeria. Their services include payment processing, disbursement and collection services, merchant services, and terminal management. Facing challenges in scalability, security, and operational efficiency, ARCA partnered with Qucoon, an advanced AWS Partner, to leverage AWS managed services. This partnership aimed to enhance ARCA's infrastructure, enabling them to scale securely and efficiently while maintaining high performance and reliability.
Challenges
ARCA's rapid growth and the increasing demand for digital payment solutions in Nigeria presented several challenges:
- Scalability: ARCA needed to scale its infrastructure dynamically to handle growing transaction volumes without compromising performance.
- Security and Compliance: Protecting sensitive financial data against escalating cyber threats was paramount.
- Operational Efficiency: ARCA sought to improve its operational efficiency to support its expanding suite of services without increasing overhead costs significantly.
How Qucoon Helped
Qucoon devised a comprehensive solution leveraging AWS managed services to address ARCA's challenges, focusing on scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Amazon CloudWatch was used for monitoring and observability, allowing ARCA to gain insights into application performance and operational health, enabling proactive issue resolution and system optimization.
- AWS Lambda was leveraged to run code in response to triggers such as changes in data or system state, enabling ARCA to operate more efficiently by automating tasks and processes.
- Amazon Cognito was deployed for secure user authentication across ARCA's applications, safeguarding access to ARCA's systems.
- AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) and AWS Shield were utilized to protect against common web exploits and DDoS attacks, ensuring the security of sensitive financial data.
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) was employed to manage encryption keys, securing data at rest and in transit.
- Amazon EC2 instances were utilized to ensure dynamic scalability and high availability of ARCA's payment processing platform.
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) was implemented to distribute incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances, ensuring reliable performance even during peak load times.
- Amazon RDS was used to manage ARCA's databases, providing high availability, durability, and automated backups, ensuring data integrity and reducing administrative burdens.
- Amazon API Gateway was used to create, publish, maintain, and secure APIs at any scale, facilitating easy integration with third-party services and partners.
Outcome
The AWS managed services solution implemented by Qucoon delivered transformative outcomes for ARCA:
- Cost Optimization: Well Architected Review and implementation of recommendation reduced ARCA’s cost by 30%. This enabled them to invest in additional AWS services.
- Robust Security: The comprehensive security measures implemented have fortified ARCA's infrastructure against cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive data and building trust with their customers.
- Increased Operational Efficiency: Automation and improved monitoring have streamlined ARCA's operations, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth while maintaining high levels of service quality.
- Enhanced Scalability and Reliability: ARCA can now effortlessly handle a significant increase in transaction volumes, experiencing 60% growth in volume in 4 months with smooth and reliable payment processing even during peak periods (0% failure rate and transaction response time down to 2 secs from 64 secs).
