From 40% to 90%+: How a Regulated Fintech Secured Its Cloud Foundation on AWS

A regulated fintech company with aspirations to become a leading financial services provider across Southeast Asia was experiencing growing operational overhead as its technology environment expanded alongside the business. With workloads spread across both on-premises infrastructure and private cloud platforms, the company needed a structured, well-governed cloud foundation and a clear path to consolidate everything onto AWS to keep pace with its growth without being slowed down by day-to-day cloud administration.

Partnering with Galactic Network, the company established a well-architected AWS Landing Zone and successfully migrated all existing workloads from on-premises and private cloud environments to AWS. The engagement improved security score from 40% to over 90%, saving 60–80 hours of admin work monthly, and significantly strengthening compliance and operational efficiency.

The client is an emerging fintech company in Southeast Asia delivering financial services products through secure, cloud-based mobile and digital platforms. Leveraging AI and analytics to enhance product efficacy and improve customer experience, the company is on a mission to become a leading financial services provider across the region.

As the business grew, so did its AWS footprint, making a structured, scalable cloud foundation essential to sustaining momentum and meeting the governance expectations of a regulated financial services operator.

A regulated fintech company with ambitions to become a leading financial services provider across Southeast Asia was rapidly expanding its digital services and customer base. As the business grew, its technology environment became increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across on-premises infrastructure and private cloud platforms.

Managing this fragmented environment introduced significant operational overhead, security blind spots, and compliance risks that were difficult to govern at scale. The lack of a unified cloud foundation meant the team was spending disproportionate time on infrastructure management rather than strategic priorities.

To consolidate all workloads onto a single cloud platform and simplify operations, the company engaged Galactic Network — an AWS trusted partner to build a secure cloud foundation and migrate all existing workloads into AWS.

The company needed to enhance its security posture, improve compliance, reduce operational overhead, and execute a structured cloud migration, all while ensuring minimal disruption to its live financial services operations.

Galactic Network designed and built a well-architected AWS Landing Zone tailored to the company's growth objectives and governance requirements. The Landing Zone established a secure, scalable, and well-governed foundation for the company's AWS environment, aligned with AWS best practices across account structure, networking, security, and access management. Centralized cost allocation and resource visibility were introduced, giving the team better control over resource utilization and spending.

With the foundation in place, Galactic Network led the end-to-end migration of the company's workloads from on-premises infrastructure and private cloud platforms into AWS. The migration was executed with careful planning to minimise disruption to live financial services operations, ensuring data integrity and continuity throughout the transition. All migrated workloads were validated against performance and security benchmarks before cutover.

The result was a fully cloud-native environment purposefully designed for both business agility and governance, enabling the company to operate efficiently as it continues to expand across Southeast Asia.

The engagement delivered meaningful improvements across security, compliance, operational efficiency, and infrastructure consolidation.

The company's security score improved from 40% to over 90%, reflecting how fundamentally the cloud environment was restructured. All workloads previously running across on-premises and private cloud environments were successfully migrated to AWS and consolidated under a single, governed framework, simplifying administration and enabling centralized management across the entire landscape.

Operational excellence improved significantly, with the team reclaiming 60–80 hours of admin work each month through a streamlined, centralized operating model. The migration also eliminated the cost and complexity of maintaining legacy on-premises infrastructure, freeing the team to focus on business growth rather than day-to-day cloud management. With a well-architected foundation in place, the company is now equipped to onboard new workloads, expand regionally, and scale its operations with confidence.

With a secure and scalable AWS Landing Zone established and all workloads successfully running on AWS, the company is well-positioned to accelerate its growth across Southeast Asia. As new workloads and financial products are introduced, the Landing Zone provides a governed, future-ready foundation that supports the company's mission of delivering innovative financial services through cloud-native technology.

The successful migration also sets the stage for the company to leverage advanced AWS capabilities, including AI/ML services, managed databases, and serverless architectures to further enhance its products and customer experience.