Large Caribbean Securities Exchange — AWS Cloud Migration & Disaster Recovery
Industry
Finance & Capital Markets
Services
Cloud Migration
Disaster Recovery
Managed DevOps/SRE
AWS Services
EC2, RDS, Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service, Multi-AZ
Compliance
Financial regulatory requirements
RTO < 1 hour
RPO < 10 minutes
Client Context
A major Caribbean securities exchange operating mission-critical national trading infrastructure. The exchange processes securities transactions for the region’s financial markets and is subject to strict regulatory oversight requiring high availability, data integrity, and disaster recovery capabilities.
The Problem
- Legacy on-premise infrastructure with no redundancy — single point of failure for national trading systems
- No offsite backup or disaster recovery environment
- Regulatory pressure to meet modern resilience standards following regional hurricane disruptions
- Internal IT team lacked cloud migration expertise for regulated workloads
What Knightfox Delivered
- Designed and executed a full cloud migration strategy for mission-critical trading systems
- Leveraged AWS Application Migration Service and Database Migration Service to re-host workloads
- Architected a multi-AZ, highly available environment with automated failover
- Implemented disaster recovery meeting regulatory RTO/RPO requirements
- Ongoing managed DevOps/SRE retainer for 24/7 monitoring and incident response
Measured Outcomes
- 53% cost reduction compared to legacy infrastructure
- RTO < 1 hour / RPO < 10 minutes — meeting financial regulatory requirements
- Zero unplanned downtime since migration
- Improved security posture and audit readiness
- Higher stability for mission-critical national infrastructure
Why This Matters
This engagement proves Knightfox can deliver regulatory-grade cloud infrastructure for the most sensitive workloads in the Caribbean — national financial markets. It demonstrates our ability to meet the compliance, resilience, and performance standards that regulators demand, while simultaneously reducing costs by more than half.