Companies providing financial services for individual consumers, corporate entities, or both, are not only subject to regulatory compliance, but also frequent targets of cyberattack. In adhering to compliance regulations, companies must be able to secure, and audit access to sensitive information. Additionally, cloud adoption often includes securely joining an existing WAN topology for shared access of physically secured centralized systems. At Rackspace, industry best practices, and expert knowledge are combined to help companies that operate in the financial services industry securely transform IT operations to run workloads in AWS, while ensuring they remain in compliance with regulatory guidelines.