Capital One on AWS
Capital One has been a disruptor in the financial services industry since 1994, using technology to transform banking and payments.
Capital One's cloud journey
Capital One unlocks innovation with observability and governance on AWS
2025
Capital One ensures strong governance and enhances visibility and observability at scale. The move to AWS Cloud Operations has enabled rapid innovation, faster infrastructure provisioning, and real-time access to cutting-edge services that support advanced AI and ML. Together with AWS, Capital One is delivering secure, reliable, and innovative digital experiences to its customers.
Capital One improves cloud resilience with help from AWS
2024
Hear from Ed Peters, distinguished engineer at Capital One, about how Capital One improved the resilience posture of their applications. By intelligently leveraging the AWS global infrastructure and using AWS services like Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudWatch, Capital One was able to inspect and improve their failover mechanism to ensure their banking applications are up and available when needed.
Processing checks up to 80% faster using AWS Step Functions distributed map with Capital One
2024
When AWS released a new feature for AWS Step Functions, a visual workflow service for distributed applications, Capital One wanted to use it right away to expedite its check clearing application. By optimizing the use of AWS Step Functions, Capital One reduced the processing time for its check clearing application by up to 80 percent and greatly improved analyst productivity.
Capital One brings sustainability to its cloud migration
2021
When Capital One decided to move to the cloud, it established a plan for responsibly disposing of its data center equipment. During migration, the company recycled 41 tons of copper and 62 tons of steel, and removed 13.5 million feet of cable from its last three data centers. Capital One expects to save 10 megawatts of power annually by exiting its data centers, equivalent to the power used by 650,000 LED light bulbs.
Change title to: Capital one enhances fraud protection with AWS machine learning
2020
As consumers continue to forgo brick-and-mortar banking for digital-first services, Capital One has embraced new technologies, adopting and applying AWS-backed AI and ML solutions to nearly every facet of the business and infusing the customer experience with intelligence. Because AWS is just as secure—and often more secure—than on-premises data centers, Capital One can apply these innovations while upholding its responsibility to protect customers and their data.
Capital One at re:Invent
Building modern apps: Architecting for observability & resilience
Creating remote work environments that optimize security, productivity
Proactive governance and compliance for AWS workloads
AWS on air ft. Capital One software: Slingshot and AWS
Practical experience with a serverless-first strategy at Capital One
How Capital One accelerates innovation with AWS databases
About Capital One
Founded in 1994, financial services company Capital One provides credit cards, checking accounts, savings accounts, auto loans, and more to more than 100 million customers.
We have successfully exited all of our data centers and gone all in on AWS, enabling instant provisioning of architecture and rapid innovation. We are now able to manage data at a much larger scale and unlock the power of machine learning to deliver enhanced customer experiences. On AWS, our technology teams are freed to focus on what they do best: building great software and delivering innovation to our customers.
Rob Alexander
Chief Information Officer, Capital OneMore customer stories
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