Amazon Web Services
As an AWS Technology Partner and Financial Services Competency Partner, Workiva makes use of the most innovative features of the AWS platform to deliver a trusted and superior customer experience.
Financial Services Partner
Workiva solves business reporting challenges for more than 3,400 organizations, including seven of the eight U.S. Global Systemically Important Bank holding companies. Workiva solutions provide customers with controlled collaboration, audit trails, and data integrity—with the security and scalability of AWS cloud infrastructure.
Technology Partner
75 percent of the largest U.S. corporations by total revenue trust Workiva with their most sensitive financial and regulatory data, reports, and disclosures. AWS was chosen to be the cloud infrastructure for Workiva products to provide maximum agility, capability, extensibility, and security for customers.
Built on AWS
Workiva delivers a multitenant, cloud regulatory reporting platform for enterprises to collect, link, and report business data with control and accountability. Workiva products are designed to give companies confidence in building accurate statutory and regulatory reports.
AWS services utilized by Workiva include: Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Kubernetes Services, Amazon Glacier, Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Route 53, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS KMS, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS X-Ray, and more.
Key benefits provided to Workiva customers include:
Performance
AWS provides a massive global cloud infrastructure, enabling the Workiva platform to scale in times of peak demand. The platform is highly performant and predictable, especially in the critical close and filing season. The world’s largest companies trust Workiva to build and deliver their most critical management, performance, board, and regulatory reports. Visit the AWS Architecture Center.
Security
AWS is a secure, durable technology platform with industry-recognized certifications and audits: PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and SOC 1 (formerly referred to as SAS 70 and/or SSAE 16) and SOC 2 audit reports. AWS supports Workiva to meet the most stringent regulatory compliance requirements. AWS services and data centers have multiple layers of operational and physical security to ensure the integrity and safety of your data. Visit the AWS Security Center.
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