fsi-lens-for-fisc

name	fsi-lens-for-fisc
description	Well-Architected FSI Lens for FISC (FSI Lens) knowledge base for evaluating Japanese financial (FSI) workloads on AWS against the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the FISC Security Guidelines (FISC 安全対策基準). Use this skill when reviewing or designing a financial workload against FISC practice standards (FISC 実務基準), mapping Well-Architected pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability) to FISC considerations, or answering questions about the FSI Lens best practices. Triggers: FSI Lens, FISC, 金融情報システムセンター, 安全対策基準, Well-Architected, ウェルアーキテクテッド, FISCOPS, FISCSEC, FISCREL, 実務基準.
license	MIT No Attribution
metadata	{"author":"aws-jp-fsi-sa","version":"1.0"}

Well-Architected FSI Lens for FISC

Workload Overview

The AWS Well-Architected Framework FSI Lens for FISC (FSI Lens) is a Well-Architected "lens" that provides context-specific guidance for designing, deploying, and operating Japanese Financial Services Industry (FSI) workloads on AWS. It extends the general-purpose AWS Well-Architected Framework with best practices aligned to the FISC Security Guidelines and Commentary (金融機関等 コンピュータシステムの安全対策基準・解説書), published by the Financial Information System Center (FISC / 金融情報システムセンター). The FISC guidelines are one of the de-facto industry standards for financial institutions in Japan and are cited by the Financial Services Agency (FSA) supervisory guidelines as a reference for system-risk and security controls.

Purpose. The lens focuses on how FSI workloads can be built to promote resilience, security, and operational performance in line with the FISC Security Guidelines. It lets architects measure an architecture consistently against best practices and identify areas for improvement.

How it is used. The lens is organized into three pillars — Operational Excellence, Security, and Reliability — each containing FISC questions (prefixed FISCOPS, FISCSEC, FISCREL) and best practices (-BPnn). Every best practice is tied to one or more FISC practice-standard numbers (FISC 実務基準, notated 実 N). A cross-reference table maps each FISC practice standard (実 1–実 153) to the relevant Well-Architected Framework questions and FSI Lens questions, distinguishing the mappings for the 12th and 13th editions of the FISC guidelines. For general (non-FSI-specific) best practices, the base AWS Well-Architected Framework should also be consulted.

Important caveats (from the source).

• The FISC Security Guidelines have no certification/conformity program; this lens does not guarantee conformance. Each organization must perform its own compliance check against the guidelines, including business applications.
• The 13th edition of the FISC guidelines (published March 2025) added new AI / generative-AI safety criteria. For AI workloads, AWS recommends combining this lens with the Machine Learning Lens (for ML workloads) and the Generative AI Lens (for generative-AI workloads).

Best Practices and Key Components

Best Practices

The following are the lens's own best practices, restated as indicator-prefixed rules. Each traces to a FISC question / practice standard in the source docs.

Operational Excellence (FISCOPS):

• MUST: Record operations — both automated processes and manual operations (console, CLI, EC2 login) must be recorded and verified so that legitimately authorized actors can be shown to have acted correctly (FISCOPS1-BP01, 実 38).
• SHOULD: Implement infrastructure as code so entire environments can be built, isolated, and recovered programmatically (FISCOPS1-BP02, 実 42).
• MUST: Prevent application tampering by version-controlling code/artifacts and separating production from in-development code/artifacts (FISCOPS1-BP03, 実 40/実 96).
• SHOULD: Improve quality from the development stage by automating code review to reduce new bugs and vulnerabilities (FISCOPS1-BP04, 実 96).
• SHOULD: Monitor cloud-provider events so alerts and remediation guidance are available when events could affect the workload (FISCOPS2-BP01, 実 46).
• SHOULD: Centralize monitoring and standardize cloud-monitoring practices across the organization to avoid information silos (FISCOPS2-BP02, 実 46).
• SHOULD: Run periodic load tests to identify key metrics and validate that alerts and automated remediation work, minimizing mean time to detection (FISCOPS2-BP03, 実 46).
• MUST: Understand data backup and retention requirements, including regulatory requirements applicable to the workload (FISCOPS3-BP01, 実 39).
• SHOULD: Incorporate short-retention anti-ransomware backups into the backup strategy, with strictly limited and encrypted access (FISCOPS3-BP02, 実 39).
• SHOULD: Create backup lifecycle policies to retain and purge data per regulatory requirements (FISCOPS3-BP03, 実 39).
• MUST: Ensure continuous or periodic data-file backups whose frequency satisfies the RPO and that support point-in-time recovery (FISCOPS3-BP04, 実 39).
• MUST: Back up infrastructure configuration (not just data) needed to redeploy the workload and meet the RTO (FISCOPS3-BP05, 実 43).
• MUST: Version-control important operational documents (design docs, procedures) and require owner approval on updates to prevent unintended change/tampering (FISCOPS4-BP01, 実 44).
• MUST: Restrict document viewing to appropriate individuals or teams (FISCOPS4-BP02, 実 44).
• SHOULD: Back up documents required for disaster recovery (FISCOPS4-BP03, 実 45).

Security (FISCSEC):

• MUST: Apply appropriate access control to important files to protect them from unauthorized access, using least privilege and defense-in-depth (security groups, NACLs, subnets, Network Firewall, VPC-only access) (FISCSEC1-BP01, 実 5).
• MUST: Identify terminals capable of operation outside fixed locations and clearly define the scope of their privileges (FISCSEC1-BP02, 実 61).
• SHOULD: Make grant/revoke operations for identity-data systems explicit, with separation between requester and approver and periodic access reviews (FISCSEC1-BP03, 実 27).
• MUST: Monitor AWS account activity by enabling CloudTrail in every supported region and storing logs in a tightly restricted central logging account with log-file integrity validation (FISCSEC2-BP01, 実 63/実 10).
• MUST: Enable verification of the association between account activity and the actual operator (e.g., centralized identity provider integrated with HR) (FISCSEC2-BP02, 実 63).
• SHOULD: Check service time zones and use UTC at the database layer to avoid time drift across systems (FISCSEC2-BP03, 実 10).
• SHOULD: Protect input data from bad-data injection and fraud via application-layer input checks plus collection/management of data-processing history (FISCSEC3-BP01, 実 6/実 65).
• MUST: Use data classification to determine appropriate control levels; it is the customer's responsibility to classify data and implement controls such as encryption (FISCSEC4-BP01, 実 69).
• MUST: Set a strong password policy for users (FISCSEC5-BP01, 実 1/実 26).
• MUST: Force a password change at first sign-in (FISCSEC5-BP02, 実 1/実 26).
• SHOULD: Restrict connection sources to the minimum necessary (credentials, IP address, client certificate) (FISCSEC5-BP03, 実 8).
• SHOULD: Centralize identity and connection management to reduce password-reuse/leak risk (FISCSEC5-BP04, 実 26).
• MUST: Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect AWS resources, including root and IAM users (FISCSEC5-BP05, 実 26).
• SHOULD: Notify customers on specific transactions and add supplementary authentication (e.g., SMS) to detect/prevent misuse (FISCSEC6-BP01, 実 112).
• MUST: Manage access history and state — collect application/login logs and restrict access by MFA and source IP (FISCSEC7-BP01, 実 11/実 16/実 113).
• MUST: Protect the application by monitoring expected vs. unexpected traffic and defending public sites from DoS/DDoS with AWS WAF and AWS Shield (FISCSEC7-BP02, 実 16).
• SHOULD: Monitor application behavior by analyzing collected logs and restricting access to logs to prevent tampering/deletion (FISCSEC7-BP03, 実 18).
• MUST: Manage encryption keys securely using AWS KMS envelope encryption; customer-managed CMKs are recommended for many financial customers (FISCSEC8-BP01, 実 13/実 30).
• SHOULD: Rotate encryption keys and enable automatic key rotation on CMKs (FISCSEC8-BP02, 実 30).

Reliability (FISCREL):

• MUST: Use business criticality to drive recovery objectives; resilience requirements must be proportional to the criticality of the business service, informing RTO/RPO and availability metrics (FISCREL1-BP01, 実 74).
• SHOULD: Apply detailed per-component recovery requirements rather than designing the whole application to the strictest requirement (FISCREL1-BP02, 実 74).
• MUST: Use a defined recovery strategy (Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, or Multi-Region Active/Active) to meet RTO/RPO (FISCREL1-BP03, 実 74).
• SHOULD: Manage configuration drift at the DR site/region via delivery pipelines to all locations, AWS Config drift detection, and CloudFormation (FISCREL1-BP04, 実 74).
• SHOULD: Automate recovery so systems recover automatically under all conditions (e.g., Elastic Disaster Recovery) (FISCREL1-BP05, 実 74).
• MAY: For wide-area disaster DR scenarios (e.g., Tokyo-wide disaster), decide multi-region system configuration across the Tokyo and Osaka regions, accounting for inter-region service differences (FISCREL1-BP06, 実 74).
• SHOULD: Have a multi-account strategy to isolate SDLC environments (dev/test/prod); BLEA for FSI is available as a secure-baseline template (FISCREL2-BP01, 実 76).
• SHOULD: Implement IAM separation across SDLC accounts using AWS Organizations and SCPs (FISCREL2-BP02, 実 76).
• SHOULD: Implement network separation between production and non-production resources (FISCREL2-BP03, 実 76).
• SHOULD: Establish a baseline of expected network traffic to trigger operational responses under abnormal load (FISCREL2-BP04, 実 76).
• MUST: Deploy workloads across multiple locations (multiple Availability Zones, and Regions where required) with failover to healthy resources (FISCREL3-BP01, 実 104).
• SHOULD: Implement infrastructure as code and automation to recover environments in minutes (FISCREL3-BP02, 実 106).
• SHOULD: Perform periodic recovery of data to verify backup integrity and process against RTO/RPO, using point-in-time recovery where available (FISCREL3-BP03, 実 106).
• WILL: The FISC Security Guidelines have no conformity program, so this lens does not guarantee conformance; each organization must perform its own compliance check (source caveat).

Key Components

The FSI Lens is process-oriented; its logical components are its three pillars. Each pillar groups FISC questions and best practices. "Assumed AWS Services" are the services the source docs associate with that pillar's best practices.

Operational Excellence Pillar (運用上の優秀性)

• Component Overview: Covers managing workload changes (FISCOPS1), rapidly detecting workload failures (FISCOPS2), taking workload backups (FISCOPS3), and managing important documents (FISCOPS4). Maps to FISC 実務基準 including 実 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 39, 96.
• Assumed AWS Services: AWS CloudTrail, AWS Systems Manager (Session Manager, Automation), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon S3 (Object Lock, lifecycle, CRR, versioning), AWS Lambda (code signing), Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, AWS Health Dashboard/API, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Backup, Amazon EBS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon EFS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Neptune, AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon FSx, Amazon EC2 / AMI.

Security Pillar (セキュリティ)

• Component Overview: Covers access-permission setup/management (FISCSEC1), operation-record verification (FISCSEC2), input-data protection (FISCSEC3), data classification (FISCSEC4), identity protection (FISCSEC5), misuse prevention (FISCSEC6), incident response (FISCSEC7), encryption-key management (FISCSEC8), malware protection (FISCSEC9), and secure email (FISCSEC10). Maps to FISC 実務 基準 including 実 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 22, 26, 27, 30, 32, 61, 63, 65, 69, 82, 112, 113, 138.
• Assumed AWS Services: AWS IAM (Access Advisor, Access Analyzer, permissions boundaries, IAM Roles Anywhere), AWS Organizations / SCP, Amazon VPC (security groups, NACLs, VPC endpoints, Network Firewall), Amazon S3 (versioning, access logs, Object Lock, public block), AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty (incl. Malware Protection for S3), AWS Security Incident Response, Amazon CloudWatch (Logs Insights, metric filters, Alarm), AWS Config, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, AWS KMS / CloudHSM, AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon RDS, Amazon SNS, AWS WAF, AWS Shield (Standard/Advanced), VPC Flow Logs, EC2 Image Builder, Amazon Inspector, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager, AWS Backup (Vault Lock), Amazon SES, Amazon Route 53 (DNSSEC), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon OpenSearch Service, FireLens.

Reliability Pillar (信頼性)

• Component Overview: Covers determining disaster recovery requirements (FISCREL1), ensuring SDLC environment separation (FISCREL2), and protecting/ recovering workloads from component failures (FISCREL3). Includes DR strategy selection (Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Region Active/ Active) and wide-area disaster planning across the Tokyo and Osaka regions. Maps to FISC 実務基準 including 実 74, 76, 104, 106.
• Assumed AWS Services: AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation (incl. StackSets), AWS Organizations / SCP, Amazon VPC (peering, security groups, NACLs), AWS WAF, AWS Shield / Shield Advanced, Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EC2, AWS Systems Manager (Automation), Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB (point-in-time recovery), BLEA for FSI (secure-baseline template).

FISC Compliance Summary

This lens is the FISC guidance. It maps AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars to FISC considerations at two levels:

1. FSI Lens questions & best practices — each pillar's FISC questions (FISCOPS/FISCSEC/FISCREL) and best practices (-BPnn) explicitly cite the FISC practice-standard number(s) (実 N) they address.
2. Reference cross-reference table — a table maps each FISC practice standard (実 1 through 実 153) to the relevant base Well-Architected Framework questions (SEC/OPS/REL/PERF) and to FSI Lens questions, with separate columns for the 12th and 13th editions of the FISC guidelines and a rationale column explaining why a given WA pillar was added in the 13th edition. The 13th edition additions include new AI / generative-AI criteria (実 150–実 152) that point to the Machine Learning Lens and Generative AI Lens.

The base of this cross-reference is the FISC compliance reference published by AWS for the FISC Security Guidelines (11th edition). The guidelines have no conformity program, so the mapping is guidance — not a conformance guarantee.

The full pillar/question/best-practice detail and the complete 実 1–実 153 cross-reference table are preserved in:

• references/lens-overview.md — lens purpose, caveats, and pillar index.
• references/operational-excellence.md — FISCOPS questions and best practices.
• references/security.md — FISCSEC questions and best practices.
• references/reliability.md — FISCREL questions and best practices.
• references/fisc-mapping.md — the full 実 1–実 153 → WA / FSI Lens table.

Reference Architecture

The FSI Lens does not prescribe a single reference architecture. It is a Well-Architected lens: a set of pillars, questions, and best practices used to evaluate and improve an FSI workload's architecture against the FISC Security Guidelines. Where the lens gives architectural guidance, it does so as options:

• Disaster-recovery strategies (Reliability): Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, and Multi-Region Active/Active, listed in increasing complexity and decreasing RTO/RPO; and multi-region planning across the Tokyo and Osaka regions for wide-area disaster scenarios.
• Multi-account isolation (Reliability): separate AWS accounts per SDLC stage, with the BLEA for FSI secure-baseline template referenced as an example.

The lens's structure and its evaluation approach are documented in references/lens-overview.md (structure, pillars, caveats). The lens does not ship a bespoke architecture diagram; see the DR-strategy and multi-account guidance in references/reliability.md.

CDK Sample Overview

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