Successful migration of mikroworx GmbH to the public cloud

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Successful migration of mikroworx GmbH to the public cloud

The challenge

mikroworx GmbH, a leading provider of payment gateways, decided to move to the cloud to leverage the full potential of public cloud services. While their previous payment gateway was housed in a traditional data center managed by a service provider, mikroworx GmbH recognized the need for a more flexible and scalable infrastructure. To successfully migrate their payment gateway to the public cloud and ensure compliance with PCI DSS 3.2, mikroworx GmbH partnered with Alice&Bob.Company. This collaboration supported mikroworx GmbH throughout their cloud journey, from architecture design and implementation to achieving PCI DSS certification.

"The Alice&Bob.Company acts 100% customer focused, very professional, reliable and quick. It is a pleasure to work with these guys. I am happy to be a public reference."

Maik-David Kroyer, CEO of mikroworx GmbH

Our solution

Under the guidance of Alice&Bob.Company, mikroworx GmbH began a comprehensive cloud migration. Key AWS services, including EC2, S3, custom hardened AMIs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, CloudFormation, Systems Manager, Lambda Functions and Inspector, played a critical role in the successful implementation of the new payment gateway.

By using AWS CloudFormation, mikroworx GmbH was able to automate the provision and management of its cloud resources. Lambda functions facilitated the execution of serverless code, while CloudWatch enabled comprehensive monitoring and alerting. Custom hardened Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) provided a secure foundation, and CloudTrail provided valuable audit logs. The implementation of GuardDuty improved threat detection capabilities, while Systems Manager enabled centralized management of EC2 instances. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) added an additional layer of protection for their applications.

Cloud technologies used

- Lambda: Serverless computing service for executing code without the need to deploy or manage servers.

- Web Application Firewall: Provides protection against common web exploits and helps to secure web applications.

AWS Lambda

Execute code without server provisioning.

Amazon CloudWatch

Monitoring and observability service

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Scalable virtual servers in the cloud.

Amazon GuardDuty

Threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity

AMI

Customized and secured Amazon Machine Images.

AWS CloudTrail

Logs and monitors account activity in the AWS infrastructure

AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure as code for AWS resources.

Results

With the support of Alice&Bob.Company, mikroworx GmbH successfully built a cloud-based payment gateway that achieved full PCI DSS compliance within 12 months. The migration to AWS allowed mikroworx GmbH to take advantage of the scaling and automation opportunities and eliminate the need for significant upfront investment in static infrastructure such as servers and storage systems.

The cloud-native approach resulted in an impressive 90% reduction in monthly infrastructure costs compared to the previous managed hosting model. By leveraging the cloud, mikroworx GmbH has established a secure and cost-efficient payment gateway service that enables the company to offer seamless financial transactions to its customers.

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