# Scenarios
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 The following are common scenarios that influence the design and architecture of your financial services workloads on AWS. Each scenario includes the common drivers for the design and a reference architecture. 

**Topics**
+ [Financial data mesh](financial-data-mesh.md)
+ [Artificial intelligence and machine learning](artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning.md)
+ [Cyber event recovery in financial services](cyber-event-recovery-in-financial-services.md)
+ [Open banking](open-banking.md)
+ [Payments](payments.md)
+ [Insurance lake](insurance-lake.md)
+ [Capital markets: Market data ingestion and distribution](capital-markets-market-data-ingestion-and-distribution.md)