Impact at Scale
- 97.6% reduction in average response time, accelerating content delivery and enabling near-instant interactions.
- 75% less data transfer from origin, reducing costs and freeing capacity for dynamic workloads.
- High cache efficiency, lowering origin requests and significantly improving user experience.
Challenges
Banco de la Nación (BN) faced the challenge of ensuring a high-performance digital experience with security and reliability for millions of users. To achieve this, it needed to:
- Ensure agility and security for critical, high-demand operations on its Págalo platform — used for paying taxes, fees, and public services in Peru — enabling secure, high-availability online transactions for citizens and institutions.
- Reduce data transfer costs in the cloud.
- Decrease the load on origin infrastructure, especially during traffic peaks.
Solution
With Azion, Banco de la Nación adopted a modern and resilient architecture, unifying performance, cost efficiency, and security within a single infrastructure. Azion’s distributed infrastructure, with local presence in Peru, maximized cache efficiency and reduced reliance on origin infrastructure, lowering latency and optimizing regional traffic.
Executing rules and policies directly at the edge centralized routing, load balancing, and security, enabling changes with high availability and no downtime. Dynamic traffic acceleration, combined with protocol optimizations and intelligent routing, reduced latency and TTFB even during peak access periods.
In addition, real-time image optimization reduced page weight, while DDoS protection ensured operational continuity against large-scale attacks. Together, these solutions ensured seamless integration with the Págalo platform and operational stability during periods of high demand.
Results
Adopting Azion delivered measurable gains for both user experience and IT operational efficiency:
- Accelerated performance: response times up to ~41x faster, with a +197% increase in instant responses.
- Cache efficiency for static content, reducing origin traffic and delivering near-instant responses.
- Proven cost savings: 75% reduction in data transfer from origin and up to 96% lower cloud data transfer costs, freeing backend resources for strategic processes and reducing operational expenses.
Why Azion
Banco de la Nación chose Azion for its ability to deliver high performance with cost efficiency at scale, unifying acceleration, caching, and security in a single platform.
By executing rules and policies directly at the edge, with centralized orchestration and no downtime, the bank reduced its reliance on origin infrastructure, scaled predictably during peak periods, and optimized cloud data transfer costs.
About Banco de la Nación
Banco de la Nación (BN) is Peru’s public financial institution and operates essential digital channels for millions of citizens, including the public payments platform Págalo. As it manages critical services with high access volumes, operational continuity, security, and reliability are absolute priorities.
With Azion, BN strengthened its digital strategy by modernizing its network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, operational resilience, and a faster, more stable digital experience at a national scale.
