AWS Well-Architected Considerations for Financial Services

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Course description

Are your financial workloads well architected? Do you want to dive deeper into your well-architected reviews to address the risks and regulatory requirements unique to the financial services industry? This course is designed to help you evaluate your financial workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using the AWS Well-Architected Framework Financial Services Industry (FSI) Lens. You will start with a quick overview of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and review process. Then, you will learn how the FSI Lens extends the Framework guidance to the financial services industry. You will also learn about typical financial workloads, FSI design principles and best practices, and how to conduct an FSI Lens review to ensure your financial workloads are well architected.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 45 minutes

Activities

• This course includes presentations, a video, and an assessment.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Recognize the purpose, value, components, and process of the Well-Architected Framework Review
• Recognize the purpose, value, and components of the FSI Lens
• Identify common financial services industry cloud workload use cases
• Describe the guidelines of performing an FSI Lens review
• Identify useful resources related to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and FSI Lens

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), architects, developers, engineers, and operations team members
• Individuals in risk, compliance, and audit functions

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Working knowledge of basic AWS building blocks and services
• Read the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper
• Read the Financial Services Industry Lens – AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper
• Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Tool

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction

• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• AWS Well-Architected Framework Review
• AWS WA Tool

Module 2: The Financial Services Industry (FSI) Lens

• AWS Well-Architected Lenses
• Financial Services Industry design principles
• Financial services workload examples

Module 3: An Example FSI Lens Review

• FSI Lens review demonstration
• Example FSI Lens questions

Module 4: Assessment

Module 5: Resources