tomers rather than in building infrastructure. The
breadth and depth of Cloud technology offers import-
ant benefits to us, namely:
• Velocity – The ability to provision on the fly is
huge for our productivity and speed to market.
• Elasticity – With meaningful swings in demand
(e.g. Black Friday and Cyber Monday) the ability
to expand dynamically is critical.
• Security – Because we operate in an industry
that attracts cybercriminals of all kinds, secu-
rity is vitally important to us, and we can now
manage data security at a more granular level.
• Availability – We engineer for high availability
and Cloud technology provides the ability to
have multiple layers of resiliency.
Interested in Learning More?
Capital One has made great strides and investments
to become a software tech company, utilizing AWS
and Cloud technology is just one of them. As we’re
transforming the industry, we’re also transforming
our technology organization. We’re increasing
in-house engineering teams and reducing dependen-
cies on licensed software built by third parties. Our
engineers create solutions that drive the future of
banking using modern technology and data solutions
like Open Source, Cloud, Big Data, APIs, etc. See how
Capital One is using AWS as a technology strategy.
This post was originally published
by Capital One, October 27, 2015.
• Tools/Products – The pace of innovation of ser-
vices on the AWS platform is a big draw for us,
especially the development of services for large
enterprises.
• Talent – Our forward-leaning approach to
Cloud technology helps us attract great talent
and we have thousands of jobs we need to fill
with Cloud engineers
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