Tag: aws

Solution Spotlight – Control Foundations

Posted October 20, 2021

Within the cloud, there are many layers at which security and compliance vulnerabilities present themselves. From the AWS Account’s permission models through application code, and at every layer in between. Enterprises that have a diverse AWS landscape, often look towards developing AWS Security controls to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced to their environments. Our Control Foundations Solution enables security teams to define the organization’s controls through a PolicyasCode framework that can be used to continuously add, adjust controls, and deploy the changes to controls to meet compliance needs across the organization. The continuous adjustments and seamless deployments of these controls allows application and infrastructure teams across the organization to spend less time worrying about security controls and more time focusing on delivering high-quality work.

Use Case: Self-Service Infrastructure Product Provisioning at Scale

Posted October 6, 2021

How a leading worldwide provider of payment technology improves software delivery by providing self-service infrastructure products that are readily available to be consumed by application teams. Through engaging with Vertical Relevance, the customer was able to increase their developers’ efficiency by increasing the speed in which they are able to deploy AWS infrastructure, all while doing so in a way that is scalable, secure, and remaining with their compliance requirements. Development Teams are able to do this by creating AWS Resources that are tested and approved to Customer’ standards on-demand utilizing Service Catalog. With this new solution being implemented, the customer is able to progress through their mainframe modernization.

Solution Spotlight – Infrastructure Foundations

Posted September 8, 2021

The Infrastructure Foundations solution enables development and operations teams to request different infrastructure products that come with all of the necessary components, integrations, and configurations. Each infrastructure product is tested and validated to comply with security and governance and is accessible through self-service. 

Use Case: Self-Service CICD Pipelines

Posted August 26, 2021

How a leading financial services analytics institution implemented self-service pipelines to support dozens of diverse applications. By engaging with Vertical Relevance, the customer moved closer to providing standardized self-service CI/CD pipelines across their enterprise without ignoring the differing needs of their many application teams. Furthermore, the customer’s CI/CD infrastructure can now move to the AWS cloud alongside the infrastructure it supports, reducing heterogeneity in tools and required skillsets, which will pay off in the form of increased scalability of the customer’s CI/CD practices and DevOps teams. 

Solution Spotlight – Pipeline Foundations

Posted August 4, 2021

The Pipeline Foundation solution enables development teams to request a pipeline that comes with all of the necessary components, integrations, and configurations for development teams. Development teams are able to request pipelines through self-service while also incorporating compliance and governance.

Automating Disaster Recovery on AWS for Financial Services

Posted February 2, 2021

The term Disaster Recovery (DR) is enough to keep both engineers and executives up at night. Any event that can have a negative impact on your business continuity could be characterized as an adverse event.

Introduction to Amazon Connect at Scale for Financial Services

Posted November 3, 2020

In this post, we’ll illustrate the business benefits that a financial services organization can achieve by creating a connected call center experience leveraging Amazon Connect and Salesforce Service Cloud. To accomplish this we’ll walk you through the setup of key components of the solution including Salesforce Service Cloud Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex bots, and AWS Lambda to interface data from Connect to Salesforce.

Automating the creation of Compliant AWS Accounts using AWS Control Tower for Financial Services

Posted September 10, 2020

Learn how to automate account creation and guardrail deployment using AWS Control Tower. This article allows financial services companies the ability to create environments that can assist in regulatory compliance for different Business Units and applications. Control Tower, along with the other AWS Services, can enable an enterprise to provide security and compliance controls over a vast AWS environment. This will lead to reduced risk and improved efficiency in providing infrastructure across an organization.

Resiliency on AWS for Financial Services – Introduction to the Testing Framework

Posted August 25, 2020

For financial services organizations looking to move their applications into AWS, not knowing the true resiliency of those applications, and the infrastructure behind them presents a great risk. Most businesses try to adhere to industry best practices in regards to architecting their AWS environments in a way that is highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant but there is no avoiding the inevitable failures and disruptions in those environments now and then. With hosting business-critical applications on AWS, businesses need to have a reliable testing strategy framework in place that regularly tests the resiliency of their AWS infrastructure.
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