Financial services institutions operate under constant pressure to maintain stability, protect customer trust, and withstand an ever-growing set of digital threats. To help organizations continuously improve their resilience posture, AWS has developed a prescriptive, five-stage framework grounded in years of real-world experience with global FSIs.

This practical checklist distills the most important actions from each stage of the framework—giving teams a simple, actionable way to strengthen resilience across technology, operations, and organizational processes. From anticipating risks to recovering quickly from disruption, the guide helps FSIs embed resilience as a continuous discipline rather than a one-time assessment.

By following these steps, institutions can reduce exposure, improve uptime, and build the confidence needed to innovate at speed.

Key points covered:

• How to reduce operational risk through continuous resilience practices

• The steps FSIs can take to improve uptime and service stability

• How a structured resilience framework helps strengthen customer trust

• Practical, checklist-style actions mapped to each of the five stages