Azubi-Team-Alpha/end-to-end-cloud-solution-design--alphapay

AlphaPay is a fintech platform for instant, zero-fee cross-border money transfers across Africa. Users can send money to any bank or mobile money wallet in 15+ African countries in under 2 seconds, generate virtual Visa cards for international payments, and businesses can use the full payments API for bulk payroll and merchant collections. # AlphaPay — African Cross-Border Payments Platform > **Azubi Africa Internship Programme** — Capstone Project 1: End-to-End Cloud Solution Design & Deployment > **Team:** Team Alpha | **Cohort:** 2026 (GEN 5) --- ## Overview **AlphaPay** is a fintech platform for instant, zero-fee cross-border money transfers across Africa. Users can send money to any bank or mobile money wallet in 15+ African countries in under 2 seconds, generate virtual Visa cards for international payments, and businesses can use the full payments API for bulk payroll and merchant collections. The platform is built as an interactive static **Astro** Single Page Application (SPA) and designed for deployment across several cloud-native **AWS** infrastructure models. --- ## Architecture The diagram below outlines the end-to-end cloud infrastructure of AlphaPay. It illustrates Route 53 DNS routing, the CloudFront global CDN distribution, the serverless S3 origin (Option A), the virtual server Nginx hosting via an ALB (Option B), and the hybrid S3-to-EC2 sync method (Option C), along with the automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. *Interactive Source:* 🌐 **Open/Edit in Draw.io** --- ## Live Site 🌐 **alphapay.alphateam.live** --- ## Team Alpha | Name | Role | |---|---| | Mustapha Haadi | Developer (Team Lead) | | David Yirenkyi | Developer | | Emmanuel Yelisomah | Developer | | Daniel Hanson Reynolds | Developer | | Zakaria Adeeba | Developer | | Evame Cobblah | Developer | | William Mukoyani | Mentor / Investor | --- ## Tech Stack ### Frontend - **Astro 7** — Static site generation (SSG) with SPA transitions via `ClientRouter` - **TailwindCSS v4** — Styling with dark mode support - **Preline v4** — UI component modules - **Starlight** — Developer documentation ### Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) | Service | Purpose | |---|---| | **Amazon S3** | Static website hosting (OAC-protected) | | **Amazon EC2** | Application hosting (Nginx Web Server) | | **Amazon CloudFront** | Global low- …