Wealth Management and Investment Banking Firm
AWS Migration Load Testing for Financial Services
A wealth management firm operating across more than 400 locations saw applications fail unexpectedly while migrating hundreds of systems to AWS. Ollon built Python load testing scripts that hit each application with expected production traffic and retested fixes before migration proceeded. The firm now has confidence in its applications' stability, with Ollon continuing support through the migration.
Situation
A diversified global wealth management and investment banking firm serving individual investors, institutions, corporations, and municipalities across more than 400 locations was migrating hundreds of applications from on premises servers to AWS as part of a planned infrastructure modernization.
Solution
Ollon was engaged to assess and load test the applications the company identified as requiring validation before their cloud migration. Ollon developed load testing scripts written in Python, designed to hit each application with the volume of requests it was expected to handle in production. The team integrated with the company's SSO system to avoid repeated authentication on every request, and handled both browser and Windows task application flows throughout the engagement.
Results
The load testing program gave the company confidence in their applications before moving to production, while surfacing infrastructure gaps that could be addressed ahead of time. Several applications that failed under load were identified and retested following remediation, validating the fixes before migration proceeded. Ollon continues to support the engagement as the company works through the remaining stages of their AWS transition.
Technologies
Python, Locust
