Liberty Mutual reduces costs and improves time to market with serverless workflow automation on AWS
Liberty Mutual Insurance modernized its Financial Central Services (FCS) transaction processing by moving to a serverless-first architecture on AWS. The company consolidated disparate lines of business into a centralized general ledger and used event-driven processing to improve resilience, reduce operational overhead, and speed delivery.
- Organization
- Liberty Mutual
- Industry
- Insurance
- Location
- United States
- Published
- May 2026
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Liberty Mutual
- Provider
- AWS
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- AWS Solutions Case Study
The company consolidated disparate lines of business into a centralized general ledger and used event-driven processing to improve resilience, reduce operational overhead, and speed delivery
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Workflow automation
- 2Serverless modernization
- 3Transaction processing
- Modernize and automate high-volume financial transaction processing across disparate lines of business.
- Reduce operational burden and failure risk in a complex insurance system.
- Improve speed to market and lower infrastructure management overhead.
- Liberty Mutual built an event-driven ETL workflow using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services.
- The company adopted a serverless-first development model and used AWS CDK to define reusable serverless patterns.
- This architecture centralized transaction processing for FCS and enabled periodic batch processing at month end.
- FCS processes 100 million transactions in a single monthly run.
- Processing one million transactions costs $60.
- Application build time dropped from 1 year to 3 months.
- The company deployed over 3,500 serverless patterns in one year, improving reuse and onboarding.
- The serverless architecture improved flexibility and resilience while reducing infrastructure maintenance burden.
Architecture
An event-driven ETL workflow uses AWS Step Functions to sequence AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services into the Financial Central Services ledger processing flow, with AWS CDK used to define and deploy reusable serverless application patterns.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
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