Thousands of bank applications are powered by Cloudsoft AMP to achieve resiliency and agility, meeting business and regulatory goals while enabling developer agility across multiple, continuously evolving platforms.
The result? The Global Bank reduced toil by 75% AND mean time to recover (MTTR) by 95% with Cloudsoft AMP. Read on to learn more. The bank competes across the globe for customers and differentiates their offerings through innovative software applications that create new products. Bank services have applications that must meet regulatory requirements while enabling developer agility. The global bank uses Cloudsoft AMP to streamline development, operations and governance for any application on any cloud.
The Challenge
Before Cloudsoft AMP, teams handling thousands of applications would struggle to develop their own resilience and reliability plans and seek approval from an architecture design council.
- The architecture council was a bottleneck
- Wide variety in techniques and quality
- Expensive redundant deployments
- Slow manual failover
- Bespoke processes
- Failover was rarely tested and brittle
- High TCO is a critical area for the bank
The Impact
What at first looks like a technical challenge has potentially significant business impacts to the bank:
- Impact on Customers. Failure to reliably meet user demand can cost $10M+/day and cause long-term damage to a bank’s reputation.
- Impact on Regulators. Regulators can publicly sanction and fine the bank if services are unavailable.
- Impact on Staff. Traditional approaches focus bottom-up on infrastructure and not on service reliability.
The Solution
The bank chose Cloudsoft AMP in preference to other solutions like Cloudformation and Terraform for reasons including the fact that Cloudsoft AMP is application-centric. The configuration of lower platforms like private and public cloud and integrations with other management systems is defined in AMP alongside the application code. This is different from lower-level, infrastructure-focused, bottom-up solutions that see an application as a black box.
The application-centric Cloudsoft AMP approach means that you can configure resilience and compliance at the application level and enforce "down the chain" rather than having to hope that multiple, disconnected lower-level systems are compliant. Hope is not a strategy for bank regulation.
The Outcome
The bank were able to demonstrate significant benefit from implementing Cloudsoft AMP as their critical resilience platform.
95% reduction in mean recovery time (MTTR) for workloads under management in AMP.
AMP's automation and composability features help the bank to reduce toil by 75%.
For example, AMP reduced repave effort by 94%.
How AMP works
AMP enables users to implement a structured approach to automation, observability, and self-healing across existing tooling and self-written code.
Cloudsoft AMP provides for the modelling of applications and all their integrations and platforms using YAML blueprints. This blueprint is then used by the Cloudsoft AMP engine to deploy and manage the application, and all its integration points and platform resources, for its entire lifecycle. Together, we call this environment-as-code.
Cloudsoft AMP has capabilities called Sensors that detect events and Effectors that provide a response to events. It's through these capabilities that Cloudsoft AMP enables resilience and compliance for applications and their integrations and resources. For regulators, the bank can show the blueprint as evidence of compliance goals and alignment to regulation, and then demonstrate to regulators that those codified policies in the blueprint are in effect for the application no matter what platform it is running on: private cloud on-premises or public cloud.
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