Overview

Q2’s differentiated architecture of public cloud hosting and active-active private data centers provides the best of all worlds for financial institutions: agility, uptime, and security unparalleled in the industry. Q2 distributed cloud hosting approach gives you the speed and innovation of public cloud with the security and resiliency of private cloud. Q2’s distributed cloud architecture is a combination of public and private cloud hosting strategies developed for our customers’ growing digital banking needs.

Benefits

Public cloud hosting for agility and availability

Our distributed cloud architecture takes full advantage of public cloud providers Azure and AWS for maintaining an agile environment for rapid software delivery, technical innovation, and redundancy with the highest reliability.

Private data centers for security and reliability

Private active-active data centers provide Tier IV security—the highest level of security in the industry. Fully automated, they provide incredibly resilient disaster recovery for your most critical workloads.

Built on decades of experience

With our 20+ years of building innovative hosting environments and technology options, Q2’s distributed cloud hosting solution has been architected with the industry-leading technology and partner services available in the industry.

Features

Superior security, uptime, and availability

The Q2 architecture achieves superior rapid scalability and extensibility compared to other digital banking providers. We don't only tout our ability to scale, we've demonstrated it through years of growth and performance including during critical events in the Financial Services Industry such as the high-volume U.S. Paycheck Protection Program initiated during the pandemic. Continuous security testing Q2 conducts internal and external testing, penetration tests, and vulnerability testing to harden security beyond what’s currently available in the public cloud.  24/7/365 monitoring We actively monitor all infrastructure components via the Global Integrated Operations Center (IOC) to ensure optimized visibility and security.

Constant improvement for even-better performance

Take advantage of continuous innovation and delivery. Our distributed cloud allows us to serve critical software updates to you seamlessly, for better performance, shorter time to market, and faster updates when you need them. Admins will appreciate the architecture No-hassle upgrades will free-up admins for other more important projects. Seamless delivery of critical back-end upgrades is achieved completely behind the scenes while allowing them to continue to control the launch of customer-facing upgrades to meet the needs of account holders.

An architecture to stay ahead of the competition

Your FI will have the technology in place to compete with bigger banks while reducing operational and maintenance costs. Whether you are a small FI or larger, our architecture will protect you.