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CASE STUDY
ABOUT AMAZON WEB SERVICES
For over 15 years , Amazon Web Services has been the world ’ s most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform . AWS has been continuously expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload and now has more than 200 full-featured services for compute , storage , databases , networking , analytics , robotics , Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence ( AI ), Internet of Things ( IoT ), mobile , security , hybridization , Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality ( VR and AR ), media and application development , deployment and management from 81 Availability Zones in 25 geographic regions worldwide .
Bancolombia is using Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ), a managed relational database service , to develop scalable applications that meet the company ’ s internal needs . Thanks to this tool , the bank can free itself from arduous and time-consuming administrative tasks . In addition , the bank currently uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service ( Amazon EKS ) to take advantage of container technology in an immersive way and can control the newly created containers . To date , the bank has dozens of EKS clusters , which enable it to provide more security and higher availability by automating key tasks such as patching , node provisioning and updates .
“ With the migration to the cloud , we ’ re improving the performance of the bank ’ s operation from several points of view . Bancolombia sees cloud services as an enabler with a global , secure and resilient network that allows the company to improve its processes to create a digital environment ,” said Marcos Grilanda , Regional Director of AWS .
“ This financial institution relies on AWS ’ s proven performance , scale and an unmatched portfolio of capabilities to complete its transformation , which will help them continue to innovate new services well into the future ,” he concluded . p

BY LEVERAGING THE

CLOUD , WE CAN REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT AND CONTINUE TO BE A BENCHMARK OF INNOVATION FOR THE

FINANCIAL SECTOR .

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