AWS for Industries

Rakesh Shirke

Author: Rakesh Shirke

Rakesh Shirke is a Lead Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services with over 18 years of experience in banking, payments, and distributed systems. He designs secure, ultra-low-latency transaction processing architectures for Fortune 100 financial institutions, focusing on the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, and financial services innovation.

From Connected to Resilient: Cloud-Native Payment Connectivity on AWS

From Connected to Resilient: Cloud-Native Payment Connectivity on AWS

In this post, we present four production-hardening patterns (A-D) that extend Patterns 3 and 4 for payment workloads operating persistent session-based protocols. These patterns optimize connection reliability, maintenance workflows, tenant isolation, and observability at the infrastructure layer, benefiting organizations connecting to traditional payment rails through AWS PrivateLink and Resource Gateway.