AWS for Industries

Category: Financial Services

Secure stored payment credentials deliver frictionless checkout and can increase sales

Leading eCommerce enterprises prioritize continuous customer experience innovation—from serving up curated and highly personalized product selections to paperless, QR-code-enabled returns. Enterprises are especially focused on the checkout or payment phase of the customer lifecycle, a stage where friction can mean the difference between a sale and an abandoned cart. Stored payment credentials are a powerful […]

Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital markets customers for analysis of real-time and historical time series data

Today, AWS is announcing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical time series data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power […]

How Exberry built a cloud-native matching engine on AWS that can process 1 million trades per sec, with 20 microseconds latency

Who is Exberry  Exberry offers a cloud-native matching engine platform that enables traditional and alternative exchanges to launch ultra-low latency markets quickly and run them cost-effectively. We launched Exberry to meet the rising demand from exchange operators for a flexible, high-performance matching engine platform that could support multiple asset classes and trading strategies and was […]

Geo-based real time marketing for Financial Services on AWS

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]

3 Days to Transform Financial Services Organizational Structures

AWS developed the Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) to help customers accelerate their journey to AWS. This transformation methodology uses hands-on, agile, and immersive interactions to build cloud capabilities. Through EBA, customers accelerate business value by removing friction points, building cross-functional teams, and enabling two-way door decisions. Regulatory demands often define financial services’ organizational structure in a […]

AWS re:Invent 2022 wrap up: Capital One optimizes for productivity, efficiency, and security on AWS

The cloud presents massive opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation. For Capital One, however, digital transformation is a complex task due to the financial services industry’s strict security and compliance requirements. Financial institutions often seek effective strategies to adopt cloud technologies while remaining secure and compliant. Capital One’s solution In 2020, Capital […]

FSI Services Spotlight: AWS Backup

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon RDS: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code to help streamline service […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring Amazon OpenSearch

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of Amazon OpenSearch: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, automating audits with APIs, and operational access and security respectively. Each of the five areas will include specific guidance, suggested reference architectures that can help […]

AWS re:Invent 2022 wrap-up: Intuit achieves 99.9% availability and powers 58 billion ML predictions daily on AWS

Industry challenge Every tax season, global financial technology company Intuit faces high demand from over 100 million customers seeking advice for preparing their taxes on its artificial intelligence (AI)–driven expert platform. To uphold its mission of powering prosperity around the world, Intuit transformed its systems and infrastructure using the latest technologies from Amazon Web Services […]