Case Study: Omise achieves 99.999% availability, lower latency, and faster deployments with Google Cloud Platform

Omise Providing easy-to-deploy payment gateway services for merchants

Omise is a Southeast Asian online payments platform that provides secure, customizable payment gateway services to merchants across Thailand, Japan and beyond. Faced with rapidly rising costs on its initial public cloud and strict requirements for near‑100% uptime and fast transaction processing, Omise moved its infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform to gain on‑demand capacity, predictable performance and easier scaling.

Omise migrated its microservices into Docker containers on Google Kubernetes Engine backed by Compute Engine and uses Jenkins for CI/CD, running an 80/20 production/staging cluster in asia‑east1. The move cut developer deployment time from up to two hours to minutes, reduced network latency from 400 ms to 250 ms, achieved 99.999% availability, saved about 10 admin hours per week, and enabled rapid autoscaling (handling bursts up to 3,000 transactions/min and doubling capacity in five minutes) while securing sensitive payment data with GCP firewalls.

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Frederico Araujo

Chief Information Officer