Financial Services Spotlight – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

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In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers who process and analyze streaming data on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code to help streamline service approval of Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink.

Apache Flink is an open-source distributed processing framework for real time stream processing. Real-time stream processing is the process of taking action on data as they are generated, rather than processing it in batches. While Apache Flink is a powerful tool, managing it can be operationally challenging due to it complex distributed architecture.