The Latest Cloud Outage Exposed a Hidden Truth
When a major public cloud platform experienced downtime earlier this month, the ripple hit many companies across fintech, banking and payments—including some of the biggest names in digital finance. But not us—nor our clients, their customers or members. For them, business continued like normal.
That’s just the way we like it. But back to the major cloud crash:
- What the public saw was a service interruption.
- What the industry saw was a loss of control.
Outages like this prove a hard truth:
You can’t build resilience on borrowed infrastructure.
Why Borrowed Infrastructure Breaks
Most modern payment processors and fintech platforms rely heavily on third-party public cloud providers to run their core systems.
It’s fast to deploy. It’s scalable.
But when the underlying infrastructure fails, every company bult on top of it slows to a crawl, waiting on generic updates, with no real-time visibility and no ability to influence recover.
- There’s no real-time visibility.
- No direct control.
- And no way to influence recovery.
That’s not innovation. That’s dependency.
When your uptime depends on another company’s uptime, you’re not in control—you’re just along for the ride.
i2c’s Approach: Build to Own the Track
At i2c, we built something different. We didn’t rent infrastructure; we engineered it.
Our next-gen model was designed to eliminate dependency—giving financial institutions and fintechs total control, even when the public cloud hits a wall.
Here’s how:
- Private, proprietary infrastructure—built from the ground up, not shared or outsourced.
- Dual-active data centers—ensuring uninterrupted operation and instant recovery.
- Financial-grade resilience—tested and trusted globally by banks, credit unions and fintechs.
No pit stops. No bottlenecks. No borrowed infrastructure.
The Race for Resilience in Fintech
Today’s fintech and banking landscape runs at breakneck speed—and customer trust is the finish line. A single outage can erase millions in transactions, damage brand reputation and stall product momentum.
At i2c, we believe resilience isn’t reactive—it’s engineered into every layer of our platform. When others hit the brakes, we keep accelerating—powered by control, visibility and over 25 years of proven uptime.
That’s what separates processors from partners.
Built for Speed. Engineered for Control.
Innovation means nothing if it’s fragile.
Resilience means everything if it’s yours.
With i2c’s proprietary infrastructure and dual-active global data centers, you’ll never wait for the cloud to recover—you’ll just keep moving.
It’s why we say i2c is where:
Bold innovation meets rock-solid reliability.
Because in this race, you can’t afford a pit stop.
Take Back Control
Don’t wait for the next outage.
See what control looks like with i2c’s private, high-performance infrastructure—purpose-built for uninterrupted uptime.
👉 Talk to i2c today —and get back in the driver’s seat.
i2c is a global provider of highly configurable banking and payment solutions. Using proprietary building block technology, clients can easily, quickly and cost-effectively create, launch and manage a comprehensive set of solutions for banking, credit, debit, and prepaid programs. i2c delivers unparalleled flexibility, agility, security and reliability from a global, unified banking and payments platform. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, its next-generation technology supports millions of users in more than 200 countries/ territories and across all time zones.
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