Globalization 2.0 | ZStack Cloud + SDS Empower Southeast Asian Payment Tool Company for Efficient Operations

A Southeast Asian payment tool company offers a wide range of services, including remittances, transfers, utility bill payments, and mobile top-ups, serving over 20 million users and covering 90% of township outlets. It is an indispensable financial service platform in the daily lives of local residents. Amid rapid business expansion, the company faces challenges in infrastructure performance, security, and operational efficiency. To meet the demands for data isolation, flexible scheduling, and automated operations in a multi-tenant model, the company chose to build its cloud infrastructure using the ZStack Cloud platform. The project achieved rapid business deployment through the integration of ZStack Cloud and ZStack SDS distributed storage, and utilized the open-source infrastructure-as-code tool Terraform for automated operations.

In the context of a booming local mobile financial market, the company’s business scale continues to expand, and the number of users is steadily increasing, placing higher demands on the performance and scalability of the underlying infrastructure. Additionally, as a multi-tenant mobile financial service platform, customers require the security and flexibility of cloud networks to achieve data isolation and flexible workload scheduling for different clients. Facing a large and complex infrastructure, traditional operational methods are inefficient and unable to meet the demands of rapid business iteration. Automated operations have become key to improving operational efficiency and reducing labor costs. Based on these pain points, the company urgently needed a cloud computing solution with greater scalability, security, and automated operational capabilities. ZStack Cloud entered the company’s radar with its simple, robust, scalable, and intelligent features and targeted solutions.

The company adopted the ZStack Cloud platform and ZStack SDS distributed storage to meet the demand for rapid business deployment. On the cloud network, ZStack Cloud provides customers with a rich set of cloud network functions, including VPC, firewall, load balancing, and other advanced network features. These functions support customers in configuring flexible network strategies to achieve strict data isolation in a multi-tenant environment, ensuring data security. In terms of automated operations, ZStack Cloud natively supports integration with Terraform, allowing customers to quickly deploy and manage cloud resources programmatically through Terraform configuration files, achieving automated creation, updating, and destruction of resources, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.

Moreover, addressing customer expansion and resource usage needs, ZStack Cloud focuses on business processing, while ZStack SDS distributed storage provides efficient and stable data storage services, solving issues of uneven resource usage and the difficulty of online infrastructure expansion.

The deep integration with Terraform is a significant highlight of the ZStack Cloud platform, enabling customers to leverage the rich resources of the Terraform community, reducing learning and usage costs, and quickly achieving automated operations.

By adopting the ZStack Cloud platform combined with Terraform for automated operations, the company’s business needs were fully met. In terms of expansion, the flexible architecture reduced expansion time by 50% and costs by 50%, allowing for a quick response to business growth demands. In terms of automated operations, with the help of Terraform, operational efficiency increased by 60%, and system stability and reliability were greatly enhanced. These benefits not only saved the company substantial operational costs but also enhanced business competitiveness, laying a solid foundation for the company’s continued development in the local mobile financial market. As the business continues to expand, the ZStack Cloud platform will continue to provide strong technical support, helping the company achieve greater commercial value.

The successful implementation of this project is not only another successful practice of the ZStack Cloud platform in the Southeast Asian mobile financial sector but also an important achievement of ZStack’s Globalization 2.0 strategy. ZStack is committed to providing localized cloud service support for global customers, with the cloud platform now supporting nine languages and covering more countries and regions, assisting global enterprises in achieving digital transformation. In the future, ZStack will continue to expand its global market, providing more enterprises with efficient, flexible, and secure cloud computing solutions, driving the global digitalization process.