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Platcorp Group — Powering Inclusive, Sustainable Finance with AWS

About the Customer

Platcorp Group is a purpose-driven African financial services provider focused on advancing financial inclusion and resilience through innovative fintech solutions. Operating across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, and Mauritius, Platcorp delivers microfinance and digital credit services that empower underserved populations—particularly smallholder farmers, women, and micro-enterprises. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, Platcorp leverages cloud-native platforms and data-driven systems to scale impact, reduce operational costs, and build financial ecosystems that work for the most vulnerable.

The Challenge

Platcorp’s rapid geographic and operational expansion resulted in a multi-account AWS architecture spanning multiple markets. However, this distributed growth introduced:

  • Fragmented environments and duplicated resources
  • Rising and untracked cloud costs
  • Security and compliance gaps across environments

Platcorp needed to optimize its cloud landscape while ensuring continued delivery of its digitally inclusive, ESG-aligned services. The aim was not just operational efficiency, but to build a cloud environment that is resilient, secure, cost-conscious, and aligned with global compliance standards.

The Solution — Cloud Sustainability Through Optimization and Security

We partnered with Platcorp to deliver a structured, cloud-wide transformation program across seven AWS accounts, grounded in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and tailored to support Platcorp’s sustainability and fintech goals.

Key Objectives

  1. Conduct Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs)
  2. Remediate critical security and architectural risks
  3. Optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency
  4. Align cloud architecture with data privacy and regulatory standards
  5. Build internal cloud governance capacity for sustainable growth

Key Initiatives & Results

✅ Security & Compliance Enhancements

  • Activated AWS GuardDuty across all accounts for continuous threat monitoring
  • Enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA) and centralized IAM policies
  • Eliminated public access to RDS and S3 storage, hardened perimeter configurations
  • Migrated from default VPCs and security groups to secure, customized network setups
  • Achieved >90% compliance scores across frameworks including:
  • › PCI DSS
  • › GDPR
  • › NIST
  • › HIPAA
  • › ISO 27001
  • › AWS Best Practices

💰 Cost Optimization Outcomes

  • Rightsized EC2 and storage resources across the environment
  • Decommissioned unused and legacy services
  • Achieved a 48% reduction in total AWS spend across all accounts
  • Cost savings reinvested into scaling inclusive lending and agri-finance initiatives

🧠 Knowledge Transfer and Internal Enablement

  • Delivered hands-on masterclasses for Platcorp engineers
  • Provided clear documentation and cloud operations protocols
  • Empowered Platcorp’s internal teams to maintain and build on the improvements sustainably

Enabling Inclusive Growth Through Technology

With an optimized cloud infrastructure, Platcorp is now better positioned to:

  • Deliver mobile-first microfinance solutions across underserved communities
  • Support smallholder farmers with climate-smart agri-loans and embedded advisory services
  • Extend digital finance to women- and youth-led MSMEs in hard-to-reach regions
  • Strengthen ESG impact reporting in line with GRI, TCFD, and SBTi frameworks

“I wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for the fantastic collaboration we’ve had on our AWS accounts. Our shared goal of implementing best cloud practices while reducing costs without affecting service delivery has truly paid off, and it's been great to see the progress we’ve made together. We’re especially pleased with the cost savings and the improvements in our overall cloud posture. This wouldn’t have been possible without the continued support from your team.”

— Engineering Team, Platcorp Group

The Outcome

Platcorp now operates on a secure, cost-efficient, and sustainability-aligned AWS architecture, empowering it to scale digital lending and impact solutions across Sub-Saharan Africa. With improved visibility, governance, and performance, Platcorp continues to lead as a fintech innovator—proving that cloud optimization and inclusive finance go hand in hand.

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