George Smith

As part of its mission to build the next generation of cloud-activated infrastructure for the world’s capital markets, Nasdaq is migrating its first US options market, Nasdaq MRX, to the cloud using edge compute capabilities available in jointly engineered AWS Outposts that are tailored to its ultra–low latency needs. This session explores how Nasdaq integrated AWS Outposts into its...

In this session, we show you how Financial Services customers can set up Amazon EMR clusters for running data analytics in heavily regulated environments. We cover everything from cloud-native Hadoop cluster considerations, configuring your cluster for security and encryption best practices, and setting up auditing and control mechanisms to limit and gain visibility into workloads being deployed.

Earlier this year, Nasdaq embarked on a strategy to migrate its growing 68-node Amazon Redshift data warehouse to a more modern data lake architecture with the goal of better managing expenses and taking advantage of additional analytical services. In this session, we share the path Nasdaq took, what worked well, what challenges we encountered, and how and why we had to rewrite queries and...