Beyond Cloud Migrations: Engineering for innovation at Macquarie Bank
summary
Macquarie moves its SAP Core Banking (Banking Services 9 on Oracle) from 200 on‑prem servers to AWS across three AZs, using Arturo governance platform to enforce infrastructure as code, immutable builds (rebuilds at least every 90 days) and automated controls for 160+ checks. A 10‑engineer team runs an 18‑month migration, cutover in under 3.5‑hour cutover overnight, serving 1.7M customers. Immediate API and batch improvements near 20% (and a further ~20% after tuning), lower ops cost, SAP‑and‑AWS supported design, and sustained high availability.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:20Macquarie Bank context
- 2:46Cloud migration approach
- 4:41SAP core banking migration
- 6:30Guiding principles for migration
- 9:33Migration objectives and execution
- 12:31Preparation for go-live
- 14:44Cloud governance platform
- 17:21SAP on AWS architecture
- 18:50Project outcomes and benefits
- 20:35Lessons learned
- 25:02Business case for cloud
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