Murex on AWS
Migrating Murex to AWS using
the AWS Well-Architected framework
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Why migrate to AWS? Public cloud computing is fundamental By migrating to the cloud we strongly
to the future of financial services believe customers will benefit from
C technology. With the launch of Murex’s greater business agility, with better
Mx.3 SaaS solution on AWS, many performance from unlimited horizontal
financial institutions who have Murex at scalability, clean and efficient
the core of their architecture are now environment management using
able to place Murex at the centre of any infrastructure-as-code and a lower
cloud migration strategy; this should be a total cost of ownership. AWS offers
priority for anyone looking to modernise improvements for both business users
their derivatives trading environments. and development teams.
Automated environment
management
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QA
ORACLE ORACLE
Core
Server Centralised logging
using CloudWatch
AZ-1 AZ-2 AZ-3 and CloudTrail
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ORACLE CloudFormation templates are used to generate
Core
Server custom environments in real-time. Lambda functions
are used to trigger the cloud formation jobs with
AZ-1 the correct parameters to build the environment.
Dev 2
Build and monitor ORACLE Configuration management is handled in
Core
environments via a GitHub, with large objects stored in S3
Server
front-end GUI, through an to improve start-up times and secrets held
API Gateway and Lambda AZ-1 AZ-2 in Vault or Secret Manager.
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ORACLE ORACLE
Core
Server
AZ-1 AZ-2 AZ-3
Benefits of running ■ Deployment automation: ability to ■ Increased reliability: bespoke
‘stand up’ and ‘tear down’ a fully monitoring of both AWS and
in the cloud functional or test development, or Murex Services.
produce Murex environments ■ Quicker time-to-market: for changes
C ■ High availability and disaster using automated environment
recovery design: using multiple management and full CICD pipeline
zones and regions ■ Cost-optimisation: transparent
■ Improved performance: ability to budgeting with clear prices and
scale out compute engine pools reduced cost of ownership through
using AWS Autoscaling Groups automated shutdown of development
based on performance metrics or and test environments and enhanced
pre-defined schedule monitoring of tagged resources.
Why engage GFT? Performance efficiency Security
Re-engineering of intra-day and end- Our Murex infrastructure team assist in
C of-day batch processes to optimise identifying sensitive data both within and
parallelisation across horizontally scalable outside Murex, ensuring it is appropriately
compute layer, using auto-scaling groups. secured via access controls, encryption
or tokenisation.
Reliability
Implementing DevOps practices to Operational excellence
ensure consistency across environments By utilising DevOps practices and
and safe automated releases, utilising ‘Infrastructure-as-Code’, GFT’s automated
out-of-the-box multi A–Z high availability environment management solution will
of AWS infrastructure. ensure consistency across production,
test and development environments. It
Cost optimisation provides a Murex-specific monitoring
Automatic shutdown of development and capability and enables reliable automatic
test environments and active monitoring deployments with full regression testing.
of tagged reources, to minimise total cost
of ownership and allow for transparent
project budgeting.
What makes
GFT different
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Big enough to deliver Passion for innovation Commitment to delivery Focus on sustainability
– small enough to care as opposed to short-term
profits
Straightforward decision Innovation labs facilitate Smart methodologies Large percentage of GFT
making and a ‘hands- trend scouting and ensure successful delivery is retained by the founding
on’ mentality based on prototyping for financial of high profile projects. family. Our core values
creativity, expertise and services. are embedded in our daily
willingness to deliver. Over Efficient teams with creative, work with clients: Caring |
5,000 engineers in 12 CODE_n innovation process and technology Committed | Couragous |
countries. network identifies disruptive knowhow. Collaborative | Creative
knowhow. Scalable global
delivery onsite and from Scalable global delivery
nearshore locations. on-site and from nearshore
locations.
About GFT GFT is a global technology partner focused on digital transformation in the financial sector.
Founded in 1987, we have over 10,000 specialists in 15+ markets.
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