Case Study: Capital One achieves faster innovation and greater scalability with Amazon Web Services

Capital One Completes Migration from Data Centers to AWS, Becomes First US Bank to Announce Going All In on the Cloud

Capital One, a major U.S. bank, needed to modernize its technology operations, move away from data centers, and scale faster to meet rising customer demand. Working with Amazon Web Services, the company used services including Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS to shift core infrastructure to the cloud and support faster innovation.

Amazon Web Services helped Capital One complete its migration and adopt a cloud-first, active-active architecture with automated failover. The results included reducing development environment setup from 3 months to minutes, cutting disaster recovery testing time by 70%, and lowering critical incident resolution time and transaction errors by 50%, while also improving uptime, scalability, and remote operations.

Capital One

Chris Nims

Senior Vice President of Cloud and Productivity Engineering