Cognizant deployed BASE24-eps on AWS and sustained more than double its target transaction load with no failed transactions. Under simulated point-of-sale load, BASE24-eps sustained more than double its target transaction load for 30 minutes with no failed transactions. Across the full test, it processed more than 4.6 million transactions without a single failure.
This testing put BASE24-eps, software banks already rely on, onto managed AWS services. Card processing runs on peaks, from holiday shopping to payday. Running at more than double its target leaves room to spare when volume surges.
The environment ran on Amazon EC2 with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, a managed database service, and observability was instrumented to the OpenTelemetry standard and monitored through Amazon CloudWatch. Operations teams could watch transaction flow, system health and throughput in real time. Cognizant, a long-time trusted partner for ACI, ran the program end-to-end in a non-production environment,…
