Zero downtime. Zero data loss. One complete cloud consolidation — protecting the cryptographic backbone of Indian banking.
FortyTwo Labs is a pioneer in quantum-safe cryptography and identity management, protecting real-time digital communications for major financial institutions including ICICI Bank and Yes Bank. In a category where security and availability are not features but existential requirements, the infrastructure underpinning these services had to be held to the same standard.
FortyTwo Labs operated a fragmented hybrid infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and on-premises servers — creating multi-cloud complexity, inconsistent security policies, and an environment that was difficult to scale. We executed a comprehensive cloud consolidation to a standardised AWS architecture, migrating all workloads with zero service interruption and establishing a unified security and operations posture that the banking sector demands.
Three people depended on this infrastructure holding together — a banking client whose transactions relied on it, a DevOps engineer fighting multi-cloud complexity daily, and a CTO whose cryptography innovation was being slowed by infrastructure debt.
Banking clients running live transaction infrastructure on quantum-safe cryptography services had zero tolerance for provider downtime. Any instability in FortyTwo Labs' infrastructure translated directly into risk for the bank's own operations.
🔐 Banking client uptime directly dependent on FortyTwo infrastructureDevOps engineers managing three separate cloud environments dealt with inconsistent tooling, fragmented monitoring, and misaligned security policies every day. Diagnosing any issue took twice as long because context had to be reconstructed across environments.
🌐 Multi-cloud complexity creating inconsistency and operational dragCTOs at cryptography firms found that fragmented infrastructure management consumed engineering attention that should have been directed at core security innovation. The overhead of maintaining multi-cloud environments competed directly with the work that differentiated the company.
🔬 Infrastructure complexity consuming cryptography engineering capacityThe multi-cloud complexity at FortyTwo Labs wasn't just operationally inconvenient — it was a security architecture risk. Inconsistent policies across Azure, AWS, and on-premises systems created gaps that couldn't be consistently monitored or governed. For an organisation protecting real-time banking communications, that inconsistency was unacceptable. Arjun's team at ICICI Bank expected the infrastructure protecting their transactions to have a security posture as rigorous as the cryptography running on top of it.
The migration required handling heterogeneous workloads: Linux cryptography servers requiring disk-level migration via S3 and custom EBS volumes; Windows Active Directory servers requiring zero-data-loss migration via AWS MGN; self-hosted PostgreSQL and Oracle databases requiring transition to managed RDS; and the entire network security architecture needing a rebuild around VPC isolation, AWS WAF, GuardDuty threat detection, and Secrets Manager key protection.
“Migrating the infrastructure of a quantum cryptography platform protecting live banking transactions — where 'zero downtime' is a contractual minimum, not an aspiration.”
The migration was planned so Arjun's banking operations never noticed it happened, Priya has a single environment to operate, and Dr. Kumar's team focuses on cryptography.
Designed a phased migration consolidating Azure and on-premises workloads into a unified AWS environment — standardising tooling, monitoring, and governance so Priya manages one platform, not three.
SustainabilityExecuted disk-level migrations for Linux-based cryptography servers by staging through Amazon S3 and creating custom EBS volumes — preserving data integrity across FortyTwo's most sensitive workloads.
ResilienceUtilised AWS Application Migration Service for Windows server migration with zero data loss — maintaining continuous operation of identity services that Arjun's banking clients depend on.
ResilienceTransitioned self-hosted PostgreSQL and Oracle databases to managed RDS services — providing automated backups, patch management, and simplified scaling for cryptographic key storage.
SustainabilityArchitected a new Amazon VPC with AWS WAF, isolated subnet design, GuardDuty threat detection, and Secrets Manager key protection — a unified security posture that matches the cryptographic rigour FortyTwo delivers.
ResilienceCoordinated migration execution to maintain continuous operation of banking security services throughout — Arjun's infrastructure protection never paused for the migration happening beneath it.
ResilienceArjun's ICICI Bank infrastructure protection ran without interruption through a complex cloud migration. The zero-downtime execution maintained the service continuity that the banking sector's compliance requirements demand.
Priya manages a single, standardised AWS environment with consistent security policies, unified monitoring, and clear governance. Multi-cloud complexity is replaced by operational clarity.
Dr. Kumar's team can focus on the quantum-safe cryptography that differentiates FortyTwo Labs in the market. The infrastructure is now an enabler — not a competing priority for engineering attention.
The consolidated AWS architecture provides a defense-in-depth security posture that matches the cryptographic standards FortyTwo delivers to its banking clients — consistent, auditable, and continuously monitored.
Complex cloud consolidations — Azure, AWS, on-premises — executed with the precision that security-critical workloads require. Zero data loss. Zero service interruption.