Public Cloud Infrastructure

Moraph resells, sets up and runs Amazon Web Services environments for banks, credit unions, lenders and investment firms. We build a multi-account structure with preventive and detective guardrails written as policy as code, designed so storage holding consumer data cannot be made public, encryption and logging are required, and every exception is approved and recorded. AWS operates the cloud itself; Moraph operates your configuration of it; your organization keeps the decisions about risk, data and access.

The problem it solves

Financial institutions move workloads to AWS faster than their controls follow. Accounts are created by different teams with different settings, storage buckets are opened for a quick data transfer and never closed, and logging and encryption depend on whoever built the workload. Security teams find misconfigurations after the fact, and when examiners ask how the institution prevents consumer data from being exposed in the cloud, the answer is a mix of console screenshots, wiki pages and good intentions.

Who it’s for

• Banks, credit unions, lenders and investment firms running or moving workloads to AWS
• CISOs and security teams who answer for cloud controls
• Infrastructure and platform teams who want an operated landing zone rather than building one
• Application teams who need cloud accounts quickly without bypassing controls
• Internal audit, third-party risk and examiners reviewing cloud governance

1. OnboardMoraph sets up the AWS organization and landing zone for your institution, or takes over an existing one, and brings each account under the agreed baseline.
2. GuardGuardrails are written as code. Preventive policies stop risky actions such as making a storage bucket public; detective rules flag drift; pipeline checks stop non-compliant infrastructure before it is deployed.
3. WatchMoraph's security operations team watches findings from AWS logging and detection services across all accounts and handles them under agreed runbooks.
4. ReviewEach month Moraph reviews the environment with you: drift, findings, changes, exceptions, access and spend, with evidence ready for audit.

Multi-account landing zone

Separate AWS accounts for production, non-production, logging, security and shared services, organized so policies apply by environment and business line.

Preventive guardrails

Service control policies stop actions your baseline forbids in every account, such as disabling CloudTrail, leaving approved regions or turning off S3 Block Public Access.

Public storage prevention

S3 Block Public Access is enforced at the account level, and bucket policies granting access outside your organization are rejected in the pipeline and flagged if they appear.

Pipeline policy checks

Infrastructure code is checked against your rules before deployment, so a change that would expose data or skip encryption fails with a clear reason.

Configuration drift detection

AWS Config rules record the configuration of every resource and flag changes that move away from the baseline.

Encryption by default

Storage, databases and backups must use encryption with keys managed in AWS KMS under key policies your organization approves.

Central logging

CloudTrail and service logs from every account flow to a separate logging account that workload teams cannot alter.

Threat detection triage

GuardDuty and Security Hub findings are triaged by Moraph analysts and handled under runbooks agreed with you.

Exception register

Every approved deviation from a guardrail is recorded with its reason, approver, compensating control and review date.

Account vending

New accounts are created from a request with the baseline already applied, so teams get an account without a manual security review of each setting.

Cost and usage reporting

Spend by account, workload and tag, with untagged resources and unusual changes in spend called out in the monthly review.

Control evidence

Configuration history, guardrail versions, findings and the change record exported for a chosen period, for internal audit and examiners.

Platform owner (your organization)

Owns the AWS environment for the institution, approves changes and certifies access

Security lead (your organization)

Sets the guardrail baseline, approves exceptions and leads incidents

Application engineer (your organization)

Requests accounts and deploys workloads through the pipeline within the guardrails

Moraph cloud engineer

Builds and maintains the landing zone and guardrail code and applies approved changes

Moraph security operations analyst

Triages findings around the clock and escalates what needs your decision

Auditor or examiner (read-only)

Reviews configuration, evidence and the change record without changing anything

Your identity provider

Federation from your identity provider into AWS IAM Identity Center, so your password and multi-factor policies apply to every console and command-line session.

Infrastructure-as-code pipeline

Your source control and pipeline, or one Moraph provides, with policy checks run on each change before deployment.

Your SIEM

CloudTrail, AWS Config and finding data forwarded to the security information and event management tool your security team already uses.

IT service management

Change requests, incidents and service requests raised in or synchronized with your ticketing system.

AWS Support

Moraph opens and works support cases with AWS on your behalf under the support plan in your agreement.

Moraph managed services

Findings and context shared with Moraph's Vulnerability Management, Privileged Access Management or Data Loss Prevention services where you use them.

Cost reporting

AWS cost and usage data summarized by account, workload and tag for your finance team.

Single sign-on

Your staff and Moraph's engineers sign in through identity providers with multi-factor authentication; your staff through yours.

Role-based access

Permission sets follow roles, so writing a change, approving it and applying it are separate.

Time-bound administrative access

Moraph staff can reach your data or keys only with explicit, time-bound authorization from you for a stated task.

Complete audit trail

Every console, command-line and pipeline action is logged with the person and time in a logging account that cannot be edited by workload or Moraph engineers.

Tested changes

Guardrail and landing-zone code passes Moraph's security testing gates before release, and a software bill of materials is kept for Moraph's tooling.

Region control

Workloads run only in the AWS regions you approve; Moraph operates environments from the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia to match.

In your AWS organization

The environment is in AWS accounts owned by your institution, with Moraph operating them under the service agreement.

Under a Moraph reseller agreement

AWS usage is bought through Moraph and billed with the service, subject to AWS's terms.

Existing landing zone

Where you already have an AWS organization, Moraph takes over its operation and brings it under policy as code rather than rebuilding it.

With other Moraph services

Run alongside Moraph managed services for vulnerability management, privileged access or data loss prevention.

Discovery

We inventory your existing AWS accounts, workloads, identity setup and controls, and agree what the service covers. We need read access and a contact from your infrastructure and security teams.

Baseline design

Account structure, allowed regions and services, guardrails, logging and encryption standards are agreed with your security lead and written as code.

Landing zone build

The organization structure, logging and security accounts, identity federation and pipeline are built, or an existing landing zone is brought under the code.

Account migration

Existing accounts are enrolled in groups, findings against the baseline fixed or recorded as exceptions, and workload owners told what changes for them.

Monitoring and runbooks

Detection services are switched on, escalation routes agreed, and runbooks for common findings approved by your security lead.

Handover to run

Your teams are trained on requesting accounts, deploying through the pipeline and asking for exceptions, and the monthly review cycle begins.

• Moraph is not AWS. AWS's own service commitments, support terms, roadmap and outages apply to the cloud itself, and Moraph cannot change them.
• AWS usage and support bought through Moraph remain subject to AWS's customer terms and pricing.
• Guardrails reduce the chance of misconfiguration; they do not remove it. Some risky configurations can only be detected after the fact rather than prevented.
• Moraph operates the landing zone and guardrails. Building, patching and supporting your applications is not included unless contracted separately.
• Decisions about data classification, risk acceptance, exceptions and incident notification remain with your organization.
• The service covers AWS. Other clouds and on-premises infrastructure are outside its scope.
• Moraph maps controls to frameworks your institution reports against and supports your own assessments; it does not certify your environment.
• Workloads that cannot be deployed as code need a documented exception and are checked by detective rules only.

• Ask for the proposed guardrail baseline and check it against your information security policy
• Try to deploy a public storage bucket in a test account and see where it is stopped
• Review how an exception is requested, approved, recorded and reviewed
• Walk through a sample finding from detection to escalation and closure
• Check how Moraph staff access is authorized, limited in time and logged
• Review the responsibilities table with your third-party risk team