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For Summit Capital Group, we executed a phased cloud migration, it was designed to strengthen regulatory compliance, reduce operational costs, and improve resilience. By leveraging modern infrastructure, advanced security controls, and a phased delivery approach, the migration ensured minimal disruption to services while enabling greater agility and scalability. The initiative positioned the firm to deliver faster, more reliable customer experiences and sustain long-term competitive advantage in an evolving financial services landscape.
“The transition exceeded our expectations, it not only safeguarded compliance and security, but also unlocked new levels of efficiency and innovation across the business.”
Escalating on-premises costs (hardware refresh, data centre, licensing, support)
Limited scalability to handle peak transaction volumes and seasonal spikes
Complex legacy integrations slowing delivery and innovation
Heightened security and compliance exposure (APRA CPS 234, Privacy Act, PCI DSS)
Inefficient disaster recovery/RTO-RPO targets; single-region risk
Long release cycles; manual change/release processes; low automation coverage
Fragmented monitoring and logging; limited real-time visibility
Vendor/end-of-life constraints on critical platforms and databases
Talent constraints for legacy tech; rising skills gap
Enable secure, elastic scaling for core banking and customer-facing workloads
Achieve compliance-by-design (CPS 234, ASIC obligations, Privacy Act, PCI DSS)
Improve availability and resilience (target ≥99.99% uptime; multi-AZ/region DR)
Reduce total cost of ownership (target 25–30% reduction over 3 years)
Accelerate delivery via DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC)
Strengthen data protection (encryption, key management, fine-grained access)
Standardise observability (logs, metrics, traces) and automate guardrails
Minimise business disruption with zero data loss and near-zero downtime cutovers
Establish a cloud operating model with clear roles, runbooks, and FinOps.
Cloud landing zone with guardrails: accounts, networking, identity, KMS, baseline policies
Migration approach: rehost “quick wins,” replatform managed databases, refactor high-value services
Security architecture: Zero-Trust, MFA, least privilege, secrets management, WAF, DDoS protection
Data strategy: encrypted data lakes, managed RDBMS/NoSQL, backup, lifecycle management
DevSecOps toolchain: CI/CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation), SAST/DAST, SBOM, policy-as-code
Resilience: multi-AZ by default; pilot multi-region active–passive for critical systems
Integration pattern: APIs/event streaming; decouple from legacy message brokers
Compliance & audit: continuous controls monitoring, evidence automation, immutable logs
Vendor risk mitigation: containerisation and open standards to reduce lock-in; portability patterns
Portfolio assessment; RTO/RPO mapping; data classification and residency checks
Design landing zone; identity and network baselines; compliance control set
Pilot CI/CD and IaC; migration runbooks; change & comms plan
Migrate low-risk apps; validate cutover, rollback, performance and DR drills
Establish observability stack; FinOps tagging; security baselines enforced
Blue-green/canary cutovers for payments, customer channels, analytics platforms
Replatform databases to managed services; implement cross-Region DR for Tier-1
Performance tuning, autoscaling, cost rightsizing
Continuous compliance evidence; chaos engineering; cost optimisation sprints
Uplift runbooks, SLOs/SLIs; posture management; incident response tabletop exercises
Training and capability uplift for ops, security, and delivery teams
Resilience & availability: ≥99.99% uptime for Tier-1 services; RTO ≤ 30 mins, RPO ≤ 5 mins for critical data
Cost outcomes: 25–30% TCO reduction over 3 years; predictable spend via FinOps and rightsizing
Delivery velocity: release cadence improved (e.g., weekly→daily); lead time and change failure rate reduced
Security posture: continuous control monitoring; automated evidence; reduced high-severity vulnerabilities
Customer experience: faster response times, fewer incidents, improved NPS/CSAT
Operational efficiency: standardised observability; automated runbooks; reduced manual toil
Regulatory alignment: demonstrable compliance with CPS 234/Privacy Act/PCI DSS; clean audit trails
The seamless migration to cloud has delivered measurable value by reducing costs, strengthening compliance, and enabling a more resilient, agile operating environment for financial services delivery. The initiative ensures the firm is better positioned to adapt to regulatory change, respond to market demands, and deliver an enhanced customer experience. As the client stated:
“What impressed us most was how smoothly the transition was managed. We achieved stronger security and compliance outcomes while gaining the flexibility to innovate faster than ever before.”
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