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How We'd Migrate a Payment Processor to the Cloud
An engagement blueprint for moving a high-volume, PCI-DSS-scoped payment platform from on-premise infrastructure to AWS — phased, reversible at every step, and designed so compliance evidence is generated by the infrastructure itself.
Type: Illustrative engagement blueprint — not a client claim
Timeline: 4–6 months (phased)
4–6 months
Timeline
€40–70K
Budget Range
Founder-led
Staffing
These are example engagements — illustrative blueprints that show how we work, not client claims. Cloudrix launched in 2026 (KVK 97732699); we'd rather show you exactly how we approach real problems than invent testimonials. Your project could be our first named case study — early clients get featured placement and case-study pricing.
The Typical Situation
The typical situation: a growing payment processor running on on-premise infrastructure. Peak transaction volumes cause slowdowns, compliance audits are increasingly complex, and the infrastructure team spends most of its time on maintenance rather than product work. The legacy setup can't scale for seasonal demand spikes, and provisioning new hardware is slow and expensive.
How We'd Approach It
We'd design a phased migration to AWS, prioritizing the payment processing core and keeping a rollback path open at each phase. The target architecture: auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters (EKS), multi-region failover, and PCI-DSS-scoped infrastructure defined entirely as code so audit evidence is reproducible. Blue-green deployments allow shipping during business hours without risk, and an observability stack (Datadog or open-source equivalent) provides real-time monitoring and alerting from day one — not bolted on at the end.
What You'd Get
- Written migration strategy with phase gates and explicit rollback criteria
- Infrastructure-as-code repository (Terraform) covering the full PCI-DSS scope
- Auto-scaling EKS cluster design with multi-region failover runbook
- Blue-green deployment pipeline with automated smoke tests
- Observability stack with dashboards, SLO definitions, and alert routing
- Compliance evidence pack: architecture diagrams, data-flow maps, access-control matrix
Typical Stack
AWS EKSTerraformArgoCDPostgreSQL RDSRedis ElastiCacheDatadogGitHub Actions
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