ALTO Network

ALTO Network

ALTO Network is a leading payment infrastructure provider in Indonesia, specializing in digital payment solutions.

Founded in 1993, ALTO has built a robust payment network connecting over 100 financial institutions and supporting thousands of merchants across the country. As one of the key players in Indonesia’s digital payments landscape, ALTO processes millions of transactions daily, making it a critical infrastructure provider for financial services. The company has played a pivotal role in driving financial inclusion in Indonesia by ensuring secure and efficient payment services for both businesses and consumers​.

ALTO Network is a leading payment infrastructure provider in Indonesia, specializing in digital payment solutions.

Founded in 1993, ALTO has built a robust payment network connecting over 100 financial institutions and supporting thousands of merchants across the country. As one of the key players in Indonesia’s digital payments landscape, ALTO processes millions of transactions daily, making it a critical infrastructure provider for financial services. The company has played a pivotal role in driving financial inclusion in Indonesia by ensuring secure and efficient payment services for both businesses and consumers​.

Challenges

Challenges

1. Scalability Issues: With increasing demand for their services, ALTO required a cloud platform that could scale quickly and effectively to handle unpredictable spikes in usage, a common challenge in the financial sector.

2. IT Architecture Evolution: ALTO’s IT architecture evolved from multi-cloud deployment to a multi-cloud active-active setup, necessitating a robust infrastructure that could seamlessly manage workloads across multiple environments.

3. High Availability: Ensuring a high Service Level Agreement (SLA) was essential for ALTO’s mission of providing uninterrupted service to its clients.

4. Cost Management: ALTO’s infrastructure costs were growing exponentially, prompting the need for a more cost-effective solution to manage operations at scale.

5. Complex Infrastructure Management: ALTO required a system that simplified infrastructure maintenance while ensuring security and compliance, particularly when upgrading Kubernetes clusters and databases.

Why Huawei Cloud?

Why Huawei Cloud?

Solutions

Solutions

• Landing Zone: A foundational framework that ensures all applications deployed on Huawei Cloud are scalable, secure, and easy to maintain.

• CCE Turbo: A cutting-edge cloud container engine that enhances ALTO’s application scalability and performance, supporting faster deployments and seamless updates.

• GaussDB for MySQL: An enterprise-grade database service that enabled ALTO to migrate seamlessly from MariaDB, offering enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability. It supports automatic scaling up to 128 TB per instance without the need for sharding.

• Operations & Maintenance (O&M): Utilizing Prometheus for real-time metric data collection from each container cluster. This data is uploaded to Huawei Cloud's AOM (Application Operations Management) and displayed on a unified Grafana dashboard for easy monitoring.

• Technology Platform: By consolidating gateways and decoupling centrally dependent services, Huawei Cloud reduced complexity in ALTO's system, enhanced SLOs, and increased cost efficiency through serverless methods. The addition of advanced security measures, such as key management in the development environment, ensures strict separation of secrets and keys.

Customer Benefits

Customer Benefits

Reduced Operational Downtime

ALTO benefited from Huawei Cloud’s seamless Kubernetes upgrades, significantly reducing the risk of downtime during critical maintenance and upgrades. This stability ensures that ALTO can deliver uninterrupted services to millions of users across Indonesia.

Database Modernization

By evolving from on-premises to cloud-native infrastructure with Huawei Cloud’s GaussDB for MySQL, ALTO gained a scalable and high-performance database. This transformation enabled them to meet increasing demands efficiently while supporting their growth objectives.

Enhanced Security and Compliance

ALTO achieved the high-security standards essential for a financial technology provider, meeting Indonesia’s stringent regulatory requirements while maintaining operational efficiency. Huawei Cloud’s advanced security and key management features also ensure a secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure.