Tier-1 Bank Modernizes Core Banking Platform on Azure with 99.99% Availability
How CloudGate helped a leading regional bank migrate its mission-critical core banking platform to Microsoft Azure with zero customer-facing downtime and full regulatory compliance.
Project Overview
The Challenge
The bank's monolithic on-premises core banking platform was constraining product velocity, with release cycles measured in quarters and growing concerns about scalability and resilience.
- 1Monolithic core banking platform with quarterly release cycles limiting product innovation
- 2Aging hardware approaching end-of-life with rising operational costs and reliability concerns
- 3Strict central bank regulatory requirements for data residency, audit trails, and BCP
Our Solution
CloudGate designed and delivered a phased modernization to Azure, decomposing the core into containerized microservices on AKS while maintaining a hybrid bridge for sensitive workloads.
- Hub-and-spoke landing zone with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework guardrails
- Containerized core services on Azure Kubernetes Service with active-active multi-region resilience
- End-to-end security with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, and Entra ID conditional access
The Results
- Passed central bank audit on first submission with zero findings
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