PEXA platform enhancement delivers world-class redundancy recovery capability

Strategic AWS collaboration safeguards Australia’s digital property exchange for the future.

Melbourne, Australia: PEXA has achieved a new resiliency milestone following a targeted upgrade of its world-first digital property settlement and lodgement platform. The upgrade is part of a long-term commitment to a culture of continued resilience, extending to customer services.

Testing conducted in late-2025 demonstrated that in the unlikely event of a major disruption originating on PEXA’s Australian Exchange – such as an adverse effect from a software deployment, or a cyber incident – redundancy time would be less than four hours, including data and platform recovery.

Delivered in partnership with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), the enhanced platform resiliency is underpinned by a multi-Region disaster recovery strategy. Additionally, an always-on ‘pilot light’ deployment ensures ongoing platform availability and near real-time full data replication, should a major disruption occur.

PEXA Chief Executive Officer and Group Managing Director Russell Cohen said enhanced resilience has been a long-term focus, fundamental to PEXA’s position as a custodian of national critical infrastructure.

“We are laser-focused on improving stability, security and resilience across our ecosystem, and these latest results with AWS underpin this commitment. All of data and platform recovery within four hours is a significant achievement and ensures resilience and continuity for millions of property transactions nationwide,” Mr Cohen said.

“What this means is that should a major disruption occur, our customers won’t need to revert to outdated and slow alternatives including manual processes and rewriting transactions from scratch. We believe proudly that PEXA is effectively the best defence for eConveyancing redundancy.”

“The Exchange already has a proven track record of performance uptime and reliability, and we can now provide Australians with even greater certainty that their property exchange infrastructure remains robust, secure and future-ready.”

Leveraging Amazon Q Developer for CLI’s advanced agentic AI software development capabilities, PEXA engineers also accelerated legacy Java environment upgrades in three hours and automated documentation across more than 60 services, advancing a long-term strategy to bolster resilience, improve scalability, and strengthen security across its platform. These enhancements form part of PEXA’s broader cloud and technology modernisation program focused on strengthening core infrastructure to meet and exceed the stringent expectations of national critical infrastructure standards.

AWS Australia and New Zealand Director for Financial Services Jamie Simon highlighted how cloud and AI are helping financial institutions strengthen their operational resilience while driving innovation.

“The resilience of Australia’s national critical infrastructure is paramount, and we applaud PEXA’s continued commitment and investment to its high resilience standards for its property exchange platform,” Mr Simon said.

“We’re proud to see PEXA’s multi-Region disaster recovery strategy across AWS’s Sydney and Melbourne Regions has helped enhance the platform’s recovery time. By also leveraging Amazon Q Developer’s agentic AI code transformation capabilities, PEXA has reduced potential operational risks often hidden in legacy systems while saving time and money.”

“We’re seeing financial service organisations focus on legacy system modernisation to strike an important balance between security and resilience, against the organisation’s ability to accelerate its innovation. This type of transformation is a critical prerequisite for financial stability, especially for core systems that are vital to Australia’s economy, and that’s why we’re seeing many of our local and global financial service customers leveraging the power of generative and agentic AI to achieve these goals.”

The platform uplift has delivered sustained improvement in PEXA’s enterprise security posture, by embedding enhanced vulnerability management, stronger identity and access controls, secure-by-design delivery practices, data security and lifecycle management, improved observability and threat detection, and business continuity readiness. Additionally, integrating a generative AI-powered assistant has transformed workflows in PEXA’s developer and engineering teams, accelerating problem solving and the introduction of new platform features for PEXA customers.

-Ends-

For more information, please contact:

Ange Lewis
Public Relations Manager, PEXA
angeline.lewis@pexa.com.au | M: 0410 276 909