Why financial services choose single-tenant SaaS

This post details the rationale behind financial institutions choosing single-tenant SaaS solutions like GitLab Dedicated. It highlights the systemic risk and concentration risk associated with shared infrastructure in the financial sector, citing regulatory concerns and data sovereignty challenges. It emphasizes GitLab Dedicated's purpose-built, isolated environment for source code, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines, including secure hosted runners and auto-scaling architecture. The post also details control mechanisms such as BYOK encryption and data residency choices, along with audit trails and logging for compliance with regulations like SOX and GLBA. Operational excellence is achieved through high availability, disaster recovery, and a zero-maintenance approach to CI/CD infrastructure.