FinTech Fred

Fred handles payments and balances. SOC2 is the price of entry, uptime is existential, and a single compliance failure ends the relationship.

Operational profile

6-12 VMs, 4 vCPU / 16 GB, ~25 req/s. Gold SLA, SOC2 required + audit logs, Replicated. $3k-7k signup. compliance_failure_immediate.