Cloud Migration

Most cloud migration playbooks were written for e-commerce companies. Capital markets are different. A trading system’s FIX session dropping packets for 200 milliseconds is a regulatory event. A risk calculation that completes in 14 minutes instead of 3 hours changes how the CRO manages a market shock. A cloud landing zone that fails audit on first review can delay an entire programme by six to twelve months. This playbook is based on cloudlogic.dev’s work migrating critical trading, risk, and payments workloads to Google Cloud and AWS at tier-one banks and fintech firms. It covers the five phases we have found essential for regulated environments. ...

In March 2020, most banks had cloud migration plans measured in years. By June 2020, those plans were measured in weeks. The pandemic did not create the need for cloud migration — it removed the organisational resistance that had been blocking it for a decade. We helped three tier-one banks accelerate their cloud migration timelines by 18-24 months during the first wave of lockdowns. The technical challenges were manageable. The organisational and compliance challenges were not. Here is what we learned about crisis-driven cloud migration in regulated environments. ...