Cloud Automation in Finance: Enhancing Security and Performance

Abstract

Cloud automation has emerged as a transformative force in the financial services industry, enabling institutions to address the complex challenges of security, compliance, and performance at scale. Financial organizations have embraced automation technologies to enforce policies, detect threats, optimize resources, and maintain operational resilience in increasingly demanding environments. This article explores how Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, and GitOps workflows are revolutionizing cloud operations in finance. It examines automated security controls across identity management and threat detection domains while highlighting performance optimization techniques that enhance workload placement, predictive scaling, and continuous tuning. The practical applications of these technologies are demonstrated across trading platforms, fraud detection systems, and customer-facing applications, illustrating how cloud automation enables financial institutions to innovate responsibly while maintaining the stringent security and performance requirements of the industry.