About the Company
Paynaira is a cloud-native platform that enables customers to initiate and track digital payment transactions securely. The company operates with a team of 10 to 15 people, processing approximately 100 transactions per day through its platform.
Customer Challenge
As a payments platform, Paynaira needed to release new features and security updates frequently without introducing downtime or risk to live transaction processing, an especially high bar given the sensitivity of the data involved. Manual deployment processes made it difficult to release changes with confidence, and infrastructure consistency across development and production environments wasn’t guaranteed, increasing the risk that a change tested in one environment would behave differently once live. The company also needed stronger, more auditable handling of database credentials and API keys than static configuration values could provide.
Partner’s Solution
Descasio deployed Paynaira’s platform on Amazon ECS running on AWS Fargate, with all infrastructure defined and provisioned through Terraform to guarantee consistency across development and production environments. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, deployed in a Multi-AZ configuration, stores transactional payment data, a decision made specifically because payment data loss or extended downtime carries materially higher business and compliance risk than for a typical application.
AWS Secrets Manager was implemented to secure database credentials and API keys, with automatic rotation reducing the exposure window of any single credential, and IAM task roles ensuring only the specific ECS task that needs a secret can retrieve it. An Application Load Balancer terminates TLS and routes traffic to healthy application instances, while Amazon ECR scans every container image for vulnerabilities before it is allowed to deploy.
Descasio automated the full CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, with rolling deployments and automatic rollback on failed health checks, enabling Paynaira to release changes, including security updates, with minimal downtime. Amazon CloudWatch provides continuous monitoring across the environment, with critical alerts, database connectivity issues or elevated transaction failure rates, routed for immediate attention given their direct business impact.
Results and Benefits
- Paynaira can now deploy new features and security updates with minimal downtime, replacing a slower, manual release process.
- Infrastructure consistency across environments is guaranteed through Terraform, reducing the risk of environment-specific issues reaching production.
- Credential security improved significantly through automatic rotation via AWS Secrets Manager, reducing standing risk from long-lived static credentials.
- Multi-AZ database resilience protects transaction processing continuity, supporting the reliability a payments platform requires.
About the Partner
Descasio is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with over 15 years of experience helping organizations modernize and optimize their digital infrastructure. Since 2010, Descasio has supported more than 400 organisations across the energy, financial services, retail, and public sectors with cloud transformation, governance, security, and managed services solutions.