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IBM MQ Modernization to AWS
Financial Services | IBM MQ on EKS
Client
Regional Financial Services Provider (name withheld per client agreement)
Industry
Banking & Payments
Engagement
14 weeks
40%
Cost Reduction
99.99%
Uptime
14 wks
Time to Migrate
Minutes
Failover Time
The Challenge
- Aging on-prem IBM MQ estate nearing end of support
- High licensing & infrastructure costs
- Limited scalability during peak transaction volumes
- Manual failover with lengthy recovery times
- Compliance & audit overhead across data centers
The Solution
- Assessed MQ topology, queues, and dependent apps
- Deployed IBM MQ Native HA with Cross-Region Replication (CRR) on Amazon EKS
- Containerized MQ workloads for portability & resilience
- Automated deployment with Infrastructure as Code
- Implemented monitoring, alerting & DR runbooks
The Results
- 40% reduction in messaging infrastructure costs
- 99.99% uptime achieved post-migration
- Failover time cut from hours to minutes
- Elastic scaling for peak transaction periods
- Simplified compliance reporting on AWS
“IntegrationPath gave us a clear, low-risk path off legacy MQ and onto AWS — without disrupting a single business-critical transaction.”
— VP of Infrastructure, Client Organization