💳 SP Transaction Hub — Cloud Storage Modernization Case Study
Executive Summary
SP Transaction Hub, a rapidly growing fintech company, provides secure digital payment infrastructure — including UPI payments, merchant services, collections, payouts, and virtual accounts — to businesses across India.
To meet growing scalability and compliance demands, Zaptoz designed and implemented a secure, automated, and compliant AWS-based storage and backup solution.
The new architecture ensures encryption, lifecycle automation, cross-region backups, and centralized compliance monitoring — fully aligned with RBI and PCI-DSS standards.
This transformation reduced storage costs by over 45%, improved audit readiness, and achieved a recovery time (RTO) under 1 hour and recovery point (RPO) of 15 minutes, all while handling high transaction volumes with full data integrity.
Challenges
SP Transaction Hub faced several infrastructure and compliance challenges before modernization:
Security & Compliance Gaps:
Data lacked encryption at rest and in transit, with limited access control.
Manual Backups:
Backups were manually executed and error-prone, risking audit failures.
Scalability Issues:
On-premises storage couldn't scale for high transaction workloads.
The Zaptoz Solution
Zaptoz delivered a secure, automated AWS storage strategy focused on data protection, compliance, and cost optimization.
Key Solution Components
Amazon S3 for storing payment data with versioning, server-side encryption (KMS), and access logging.
Amazon S3 Glacier & Deep Archive for long-term data retention and cost optimization.
Amazon EBS (gp3 & io2) volumes for high-performance application and database workloads, fully encrypted.
AWS Backup automated daily, weekly, and monthly backups for S3, RDS, and EBS, including cross-region replication.
Amazon CloudWatch for real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and usage insights.
AWS CloudTrail for full audit logging of all storage and backup API activities.
AWS IAM enforced least-privilege access for roles handling sensitive financial data.
Security, Compliance & Governance
Data Classification:
Amazon Macie automatically scanned all S3 buckets to detect and classify sensitive PII and financial data, triggering alerts for remediation.
Compliance Monitoring:
AWS Config tracked all resource configuration changes, ensuring adherence to RBI and PCI-DSS baselines.
Backup Verification:
AWS Backup Audit Manager generated verifiable compliance reports and validated backup integrity.
Threat Detection:
Amazon GuardDuty monitored for unusual access patterns and potential intrusions.
AWS Services Used
Business Impact
Regulatory Compliance:
Continuous compliance with RBI and PCI-DSS via encryption, logging, and configuration tracking.
Cost Optimization:
Automated S3 lifecycle policies reduced storage costs by 45%.
Resilience:
Cross-region backups lowered RTO to under 1 hour and RPO to 15 minutes.
Operational Efficiency:
Backup automation reduced manual workload by 80%.
Enhanced Visibility:
Real-time classification and compliance insights via Macie and AWS Config.
Audit Readiness:
Centralized evidence generation simplified RBI and PCI-DSS audits.
Key Benefits
Reliability & Security:
End-to-end encryption with SSE-KMS and IAM-based access controls ensured data integrity.
Scalability & Performance:
Automatically scales with transaction volume without downtime.
Cost Savings:
Lifecycle policies and archival storage cut long-term costs by ~45%.
Operational Automation:
Eliminated manual backup and archival management.
Disaster Recovery:
Multi-region redundancy achieved enterprise-grade business continuity.
Outcome
Through Zaptoz's AWS-powered modernization, SP Transaction Hub enhanced its security posture, compliance readiness, and cost efficiency. The solution provides elastic scalability, transparent governance, and resilience — empowering the fintech to expand confidently while maintaining trust and regulatory excellence.
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