Category: AWS CloudTrail

The UK motor finance industry faces Complex challenges following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) review of Discretionary Commission Arrangements (DCA). Financial institutions must now analyze historical lending data, calculate accurate redress amounts, and manage customer communications effectively, all while working with fragmented data sets and tight regulatory deadlines. In this post, we’ll explore how AWS […]

The rapid advancement of generative AI promises new strategies for innovation in the insurance industry, and insurance carriers should implement it in compliance with regulatory requirements. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted Principles on Artificial Intelligence and released a Model Bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence systems by insurers to provide […]

Legacy mainframe systems remain the backbone of many telecommunications (telco) operators, despite rapid technological evolution. These systems, combining proprietary and vendor-developed applications, remain critical for handling bulk data processing and large-scale transactions. These systems typically handle critical Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) workloads, such as the highly transactional processes of rating, […]

Introduction In “Blog 1 – Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” we covered the importance of establishing a strong cloud foundation on AWS, and we identified some of the key capabilities that are different or need to be adapted for Telco use cases. Specifically, we can see that from […]

Protecting sensitive (personal data such as payment and health data) is one of Amazon’s highest priorities. In support of this goal, Amazon developed Lumos, a highly secure and scalable internal service that provides low-latency APIs to tokenize sensitive data. Lumos is a cloud-native application built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) serverless and security offerings; processing […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA): 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 […]

Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]

Utilities are responding to increasing threats and vulnerabilities targeting both familiar enterprise information technology (IT) channels and others outside of traditional systems, such as ransomware attacks on business processes, and operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities that straddle the cyber-physical world. Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are seeing the security landscape change and are […]

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 FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

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