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Otis Antoniou

Author: Otis Antoniou

Otis Antoniou is a Senior Solutions Architect based in London. Otis is focused on supporting Banking, Payments, and Capital Markets customers, helping them innovate and solve business problems using AWS Services. Outside of work, Otis enjoys playing team sports, racket sports, and he is passionate about music.

How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS

This post was co-written with Paulo Barbosa, the COO of Banfico.  Introduction Banfico is a London-based FinTech company, providing market-leading Open Banking regulatory compliance solutions. Over 185 leading Financial Institutions and FinTech companies use Banfico to streamline their compliance process and deliver the future of banking. Under the EU’s revised PSD2, banks can use application […]

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Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability, Part IV: Databases

In Part I: Compute, Part II: Storage, and Part III: Networking of this series, we introduced strategies to optimize the compute, storage, and networking layers of your AWS architecture for sustainability. This post, Part IV, focuses on the database layer and proposes recommendations to optimize your databases’ utilization, performance, and queries. These recommendations are based […]