Educational Platform Scalability and Reliability

Customer Challenges

Catalyst Commodities operates in energy and commodities markets where uptime, transaction speed, and security directly impact revenue. As trading volumes increased and market volatility intensified, the existing infrastructure required stronger resilience and operational governance.

Key challenges included:

• Requirement for uninterrupted 24/7 trading operations
• Latency sensitivity for real-time financial transactions
• Security and encryption requirements for financial data
• Limited proactive monitoring and structured incident response
• Need for validated disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Cloud cost fluctuations during demand spikes

Catalyst required a scalable AWS environment and a managed services partner capable of delivering continuous operational oversight and optimization.ble of delivering continuous operational oversight, compliance monitoring, and 24/7 support.

Scalable EdTech Infrastructure for 5+ Million Students

Our Solution

CloudiQS modernized Catalyst’s cloud environment using scalable AWS compute services, highly available databases, multi-AZ deployments, and layered security controls including encryption and web application protection.

The architecture was designed to support low-latency trading workloads, high availability, and secure financial processing across global markets.

Zero Downtime, 75% Faster Loading, 50% District Growth

Ongoing AWS Managed Services

• Following modernization, Catalyst engaged CloudiQS under an ongoing AWS Managed Services agreement.
• CloudiQS provides:
• 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure and trading applications
• SLA-based incident response with structured escalation workflows
• Continuous performance tuning for low-latency transactions
• Vulnerability management, patch automation, and IAM governance
• Multi-region backup validation and disaster recovery testing
• Proactive scaling management during periods of market volatility
• Monthly cost optimization and cloud consumption governance
• Quarterly operational and architecture review sessions
• CloudiQS operates as Catalyst’s cloud operations partner, delivering secure, optimized, and resilient infrastructure for mission-critical trading systems.

Scalable EdTech Infrastructure for 5+ Million Students

The Results

Reliability & Performance

• Achieved 99.97% uptime across trading environments
• Reduced transaction latency by 40%
• Eliminated peak-hour instability impacting trades

Operational Excellence

• Reduced high-severity incidents by over 60%
• Sub-20-minute acknowledgment time for critical incidents
• Improved deployment stability and operational consistency

Scalability & Financial Impact

Reduced infrastructure costs through continuous optimizationk through proactive monitoring

Supported increased trading volumes without infrastructure redesign

Improved business continuity readiness through validated DR testing