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by cameronh90 960 days ago
In the UK, it’s relatively common. Some of the older systems at legacy banks will still run on premise, but more because AWS lacks a mainframe instance type than anything else.

The main concern from the regulator perspective isn’t security as much as concentration of risk in a small number of providers: if AWS goes down, will it take the whole financial sector with it?