Case Study: Capital One achieves major cost savings and faster development with AWS serverless technologies

Capital One Saves Developer Time and Reduces Costs by Going Serverless on AWS

Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States, needed to modernize after exiting its last on-premises data centers in 2020. The company’s engineers were spending too much time on infrastructure and legacy application maintenance, so Capital One looked to AWS services such as AWS Lambda to reduce operational burden and move more of its workloads to serverless computing.

Using AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, AWS SAM, and later AWS Glue, Capital One streamlined development and deployment, improved operational efficiency, and accelerated delivery. AWS helped the company build new applications in days, reduce developer time spent on infrastructure work, and achieve up to 90% cost savings for some applications.

Capital One

George Mao

Senior Distinguished Engineer