AWS believes that financial institutions should ensure that they—and the critical economic functions they perform—are resilient to disruption and failure, whatever the cause. Prolonged outages or outright failures could cause loss of trust and confidence in affected financial institutions, in addition to causing direct financial losses due to failing to meet obligations.
AWS builds—and encourages its customers to build—for failure to occur, at any time. Similarly, as the Bank of England recognizes, “We want firms to plan on the assumption that any part of their infrastructure could be impacted, whatever the reason.”
In the design, building, and testing of their applications on AWS, customers are able to achieve their objectives for operational resilience. AWS offers the building blocks for any type of customer, from financial institutions to oil and gas companies to government agencies, to construct applications that can withstand large-scale events. In this section, we walk through how financial institution customers can build that type of resilient application on the AWS cloud.
