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ALTO Network is a leading payment infrastructure provider in Indonesia, specializing in digital payment solutions.

Founded in 1993, ALTO has built a robust payment network connecting over 100 financial institutions and supporting thousands of merchants across the country. As one of the key players in Indonesia’s digital payments landscape, ALTO processes millions of transactions daily, making it a critical infrastructure provider for financial services. The company has played a pivotal role in driving financial inclusion in Indonesia by ensuring secure and efficient payment services for both businesses and consumers.

ALTO Network is a leading payment infrastructure provider in Indonesia, specializing in digital payment solutions.

Huawei Cloud x ALTO Network

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Mr. Wahyudi Gunawan, COTO, PT.ALTO NETWORK INDONESIA

Enhancing capabilities in payment transactions has always been a key focus for ALTO, driven by their commitment to continuous improvement. Huawei Cloud is proud to support this journey by providing robust infrastructure, multi-dimensional capabilities, and full-stack solutions tailored to ALTO’s evolving needs.

In the future, with tools like Doer—ALTO is poised to streamline operations and accelerate innovation. Together, we’re building a smarter, more agile payment ecosystem.

Challenges

1. Scalability Issues: With increasing demand for their services, ALTO required a cloud platform that could scale quickly and effectively to handle unpredictable spikes in usage, a common challenge in the financial sector.

2. IT Architecture Evolution: ALTO’s IT architecture evolved from multi-cloud deployment to a multi-cloud active-active setup, necessitating a robust infrastructure that could seamlessly manage workloads across multiple environments.

3. High Availability: Ensuring a high Service Level Agreement (SLA) was essential for ALTO’s mission of providing uninterrupted service to its clients.

4. Cost Management: ALTO’s infrastructure costs were growing exponentially, prompting the need for a more cost-effective solution to manage operations at scale.

5. Complex Infrastructure Management: ALTO required a system that simplified infrastructure maintenance while ensuring security and compliance, particularly when upgrading Kubernetes clusters and databases.

Why Huawei Cloud?

Cloud-Native Capabilities

Huawei Cloud provided ALTO with its advanced Cloud Container Engine (CCE) Turbo, enabling rapid application deployment, high efficiency, and seamless Kubernetes upgrades. This allowed ALTO to maintain consistent IP addresses during upgrades, minimizing service interruptions and enhancing overall system performance.

Database Evolution

With the end of support for MariaDB, ALTO required a seamless migration path to a high-performance database. Huawei Cloud’s GaussDB for MySQL provided ALTO with a scalable, enterprise-grade database solution, supporting their expanding workloads while delivering reliable performance.

High Availability and Reliability

Huawei Cloud’s Landing Zone architecture ensured ALTO’s applications remained scalable, secure, and easy to manage. This structure contributed to ALTO’s commitment to delivering high availability and meeting stringent SLA requirements for their customers.

Solutions

• Landing Zone: A foundational framework that ensures all applications deployed on Huawei Cloud are scalable, secure, and easy to maintain.

• CCE Turbo: A cutting-edge cloud container engine that enhances ALTO’s application scalability and performance, supporting faster deployments and seamless updates.

• TaurusDB: An enterprise-grade database service that enabled ALTO to migrate seamlessly from MariaDB, offering enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability. It supports automatic scaling up to 128 TB per instance without the need for sharding.

• Operations & Maintenance (O&M): Utilizing Prometheus for real-time metric data collection from each container cluster. This data is uploaded to Huawei Cloud's AOM (Application Operations Management) and displayed on a unified Grafana dashboard for easy monitoring.

• Technology Platform: By consolidating gateways and decoupling centrally dependent services, Huawei Cloud reduced complexity in ALTO's system, enhanced SLOs, and increased cost efficiency through serverless methods. The addition of advanced security measures, such as key management in the development environment, ensures strict separation of secrets and keys.

Huawei Cloud Services Used

Cloud Container Engine (CCE)

TaurusDB

Application Operations Management (AOM)

Customer Benefits

Reduced Operational Downtime

ALTO benefited from Huawei Cloud’s seamless Kubernetes upgrades, significantly reducing the risk of downtime during critical maintenance and upgrades. This stability ensures that ALTO can deliver uninterrupted services to millions of users across Indonesia.

Database Modernization

By evolving from on-premises to cloud-native infrastructure with Huawei Cloud’s GaussDB for MySQL, ALTO gained a scalable and high-performance database. This transformation enabled them to meet increasing demands efficiently while supporting their growth objectives.

Enhanced Security and Compliance

ALTO achieved the high-security standards essential for a financial technology provider, meeting Indonesia’s stringent regulatory requirements while maintaining operational efficiency. Huawei Cloud’s advanced security and key management features also ensure a secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure.