Cielo in the cloud: company boosts new services by choosing AWS as its main cloud computing provider

All projects are born and developed on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform; server migration project has started

Cielo, among the leading electronic payment solutions companies in Brazil and Latin America, announces that it has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main provider of cloud services. In this way, all projects of the acquirer will be born and developed in the cloud computing environment.

With the gradual adoption of the cloud, Cielo hopes to further accelerate its digital transformation. “For many years our company has been synonymous with payments to various audiences and a reference when it comes to boosting business throughout Brazil. AWS will not only allow Cielo to improve its service in the acquiring universe, it will also enhance the offer of a greater number of value-added services”, says Júlio Gomes, vice president of Customer Experience.

Marcos Albino, Cloud Superintendent at Cielo, explains that cloud computing will simplify the technology architecture, accelerate the development of new products and, in the long term, reduce infrastructure costs. “We have already started the migration of more than 900 servers, which guarantees us to use a lot of self-service technologies from AWS. In this way, we reduce the development time for new solutions. These are technologies that can be used tailored to our needs and, above all, those of our customers”, he says.

Cielo and AWS accumulate some experiences together. It was through the cloud, for example, that Cielo managed, in a short period of time, in 2020, to be the first acquirer to make it possible for beneficiaries of emergency aid to make payments through the Caixa Econômica Federal app. On another front, new features for Cielo's applications were ready in a week using AWS tools, compared to a month when development took place on premises.

Two aspects contributed to the choice of AWS as Cielo's cloud computing provider: the company's ongoing investments in security, which will benefit the acquirer, as well as the broad support that AWS will provide by training approximately 200 Cielo employees on topics such as architecture, development, and data.

“By expanding its operation on AWS, Cielo has the performance, elasticity and support it needs to keep its customers secure, while using the wide range of services to scale on demand. This movement signals the company's commitment to the modernization and digital transformation that the market and customers are asking for nowadays”, says Cleber Morais, general director of Amazon Web Services in Brazil for the corporate sector.