Introduction:
Axis Asset Management Company Limited (Axis Mutual Fund) is a premier, SEBI and AMFI-regulated financial powerhouse headquartered in Mumbai. It manages diverse portfolio of mutual funds across equity, debt, and hybrid instruments, operates in an environment where trust, uptime, and compliance are non-negotiable.
Client:
Axis Mutual Fund
Industry:
BFSI (Asset Management)
Offering:
Cross-Region Disaster Recovery & 24/7 Managed Services
AWS Services:
- EKS (Dynamic Scaling)
- RDS (Cross-Region Replicas)
- CloudFormation (IaC)
- Lambda (Automation)
- KMS (CloudHSM CMK)
- S3 CRR
The Challenge:
For Axis Mutual Fund, a Tier-1 SEBI/AMFI-regulated entity, downtime is a regulatory and reputational crisis. Operating a 24/7 digital platform for millions of investors, the client faced three critical mandates:
- Regulatory Compliance: Mandatory bi-annual DR drills with documented proof for SEBI audits.
- Zero Data Loss (RPO=0): Absolute protection of live investor transactions and NAV processing.
- Complex Recovery: Orchestrating a synchronized failover of 15+ EC2 servers, an EKS cluster, and a multi-database environment (MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB) within a strict 1.5-hour RTO.
Solution Approach:
Rapyder engineered a Cross-Region Warm Standby DR Solution (Mumbai → Hyderabad). The strategy focused on “Operational Readiness at Optimized Cost” – keeping secondary resources in a stopped or scaled-down state during peace-time, while utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automated Replication to enable high-velocity activation during a disaster.
Implementation:
Rapyder executed a layered technical migration to ensure a “One-Click” failover:
- Infrastructure: Provisioned 15 EC2 instances via CloudFormation; configured EKS to scale dynamically from 1 to 8 nodes upon failover.
- Data Integrity: Deployed Cross-Region Read Replicas (RDS) and native replication (MongoDB) to ensure real-time synchronization and zero data loss.
- Automation: Integrated AWS Lambda for cost-optimized start/stop scheduling and S3/ECR Cross-Region Replication for instant application availability.
- Security: Enforced KMS Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) for multi-region encryption across all EBS, RDS, and S3 volumes.
- Command & Control: Established CloudWatch-to-SNS alerting routed to Rapyder’s 24/7 Cloud Command Centre for proactive incident response.
The Business Impact: Impact Engineered by Rapyder
The February 2026 live DR drill validated the framework’s success against SEBI targets:
- Exceeded RTO Targets: Achieved full failover in 1 hour (Target: 1.5 hours) and failback in 1 hour.
- Verified Zero Data Loss (RPO=0): Confirmed via exact database row-count matches (649,607 rows) pre- and post-failover.
- Audit-Ready Compliance: Provided a comprehensive DR Playbook (v2.0) and timestamped logs, simplifying regulatory submissions.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduced “steady-state” overhead through automated resource scaling and scheduling.
Why Choose Rapyder?
- BFSI Domain Expertise: Deep mastery of the rigorous compliance standards of SEBI and AMFI.
- AWS Premier Partner: Proven track record in complex cross-region orchestration and IaC-driven resilience.
- Outcome-Obsessed: We don’t just build infrastructure; we own the drill, the documentation, and the recovery success.
