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Tag: Financial Services Industry Service Spotlight Series

AWS responds to Financial Stability Board (FSB) consultation on delivering global interoperability in third-party risk management regimes for financial services

In June, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a consultation, Enhancing Third-Party Risk Management and Oversight: A toolkit for financial institutions and financial authorities, that aims to reduce fragmentation of regulatory and supervisory approaches to financial institutions’ (FIs) third-party risk management (TPRM) and deliver and support a more harmonized approach across all jurisdictions. The consultation […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring AWS Batch

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on AWS Batch: 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 […]

Financial Services Spotlight – Amazon Elastic File System

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to achieve compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control and security. Across each area, we examine specific guidance, suggested reference […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly 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 used […]

FSI Service Spotlight: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)

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

CloudFront FSI Service Spotlight

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 CloudFront: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we’ll examine specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code to help […]

Automated and personalized asset portfolio optimization combining ESG and financial data on Amazon FinSpace

As detailed in our previous post on the topic, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data has become an indispensable supplemental data to assess a company’s risk and performance alongside traditional financial and alternative data. Institutional investors and asset managers are increasingly integrating ESG data into investment decisions, as responsible or sustainable investing moves from niche […]

DynamoDB FSI Service Spotlight

Introduction to DynamoDB 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 DynamoDB: 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 […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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

Executive Conversations: Vikram Dewan, Chief Information Officer at Jefferies

John Kain, Head of Financial Services Market Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is joined by Vikram Dewan, Chief Information Officer at Jefferies, who recently announced plans to move core business systems, internal and customer-facing applications, IT resources, and companywide data to AWS. In this post, Vikram discussed Jefferies’ digital transformation and explained the value […]