Empowering financial advisors with innovation and trust at scale

Altruist supports financial advisors using AWS cloud infrastructure.

availability with automatic scaling across regions

cost reduction using Amazon Graviton Processors

Scaling financial advice using AWS

Altruist, a rapidly growing financial technology company, set out to create a scalable, secure platform to better serve the $10 trillion registered investment advisor market by overcoming the constraints of outdated technology used by legacy custodians. To achieve this, Altruist built a full-stack, vertically integrated custodian using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and additional AWS services. Using AWS, Altruist maintains system stability and security alongside efficiency-driving tools that financial advisors depend on to deliver better outcomes to more clients at lower costs.

Improved security

Altruist uses AWS IAM with short-lived access keys and multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access. Using AWS CloudTrail, it can detect and address suspicious activity early. This approach helps protect both internal users and client assets while maintaining compliance standards.

System stability

Using AWS, Altruist can automatically scale resources on demand across virtually any region. Its databases and clusters maintain 99.99999% availability for optimal SLAs. With this stability, enhanced by continual updates, Altruist delivers consistent performance, even during high-volume events.

Reduced costs

By implementing AWS Graviton processors, Altruist achieves 20 percent lower costs while improving performance. With on-demand resource deployment, engineers can quickly spin up servers for testing and remove them when they’re no longer needed, optimizing resource usage.

Faster Innovation

Using AWS, Altruist gains complete observability throughout the application development lifecycle, facilitating safe experimentation and rapid deployment. This accelerates Altruist’s time to market and supports its exponential growth because services can scale according to business demands.

"Using AWS, our engineering capabilities are on the cutting edge of security, stability, and innovation. Advisors can trust that there’s a powerful, reliable engine driving our rapid growth.”

Emerson Serra
Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Altruist