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 AWS workloads expanded alongside the business. With workloads spread across both on-premises infrastructure and AWS, the company needed a structured, well-governed cloud foundation 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 that consolidated existing accounts and workloads under a centralized, governed framework, improving 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.

As the company's AWS workloads expanded, the operational overhead of managing a growing multi-account environment became increasingly difficult to sustain. Without a structured foundation, cloud administration tasks were fragmented and time-consuming, limiting the team's ability to focus on strategic priorities.

The company needed to enhance its security posture, improve compliance, and reduce operational overhead, while ensuring its cloud environment could scale alongside the business in a governed and efficient manner.

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.

Existing AWS accounts and workloads were consolidated under the new Landing Zone, enabling centralized billing, management, and governance across the entire AWS landscape. Automated account setup and security management streamlined cloud adoption, reducing the complexity of operating a multi-account environment at scale. Centralized cost allocation and resource visibility were introduced, giving the team better control over resource utilization and spending.

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

The Landing Zone engagement delivered meaningful improvements across security, compliance, and operational efficiency.

The company's security score improved from 40% to over 90%, reflecting how fundamentally the cloud environment was restructured. Existing AWS accounts and workloads were successfully consolidated under a single, governed framework, simplifying administration and enabling centralized management across the entire AWS landscape.

Operational excellence improved significantly, with the team reclaiming 60–80 hours of admin work each month through a streamlined, centralized operating model, freeing them 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, 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.