New whitepaper: Achieving Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector and Beyond

AWS has released a new whitepaper, Amazon Web Services’ Approach to Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector and Beyond, in which we discuss how AWS and customers build for resiliency on the AWS cloud. We’re constantly amazed at the applications our customers build using AWS services — including what our financial services customers have built, from credit risk simulations to mobile banking applications. Depending on their internal and regulatory requirements, financial services companies may need to meet specific resiliency objectives and withstand low-probability events that could otherwise disrupt their businesses. We know that financial regulators are also interested in understanding how the AWS cloud allows customers to meet those objectives. This new whitepaper addresses these topics.

The paper walks through the AWS global infrastructure and how we build to withstand failures. Reflecting how AWS and customers share responsibility for resilience, the paper also outlines how a financial institution can build mission-critical applications to leverage, for example, multiple Availability Zones to improve their resiliency compared to a traditional, on-premises environment.

Security and resiliency remain our highest priority. We encourage you to check out the paper and provide feedback. We’d love to hear from you, so don’t hesitate to get in touch with us by reaching out to your account executive or contacting AWS Support.

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