AWS infrastructure · Capital markets
We build and operate the AWS half of a trading firm — research at scale, tick history, post-trade risk and surveillance, and the Direct Connect bridge back to your cage. Fixed scope, senior-level engineering, and every line of Terraform handed to you at the end.
What we do
Not a general cloud practice. These are the four places where trading firms consistently overspend, under-measure, or fail an audit — and all four sit on the AWS side of the line.
Ten thousand cores for a parameter sweep, then nothing until the next one. Spot fleets with checkpointing that survives interruption, and a cost model your COO can actually read. Spot pricing alone typically runs 60–90% below on-demand — the saving is arithmetic, not a promise.
Years of market data in one schema, partitioned so a five-year query doesn't cost five figures. Point-in-time correct, deterministically replayable, and read by the same code path in research and in production.
Trade reconstruction, order-lifecycle capture, clock-offset evidence for MiFID II RTS 25, and a retention policy that survives a regulator asking about a specific millisecond two years ago. Auditable, and boring on purpose.
Direct Connect from your cage into AWS with redundant paths, BGP policy that fails the way you expect it to, and a hybrid topology that behaves the same at 09:30 as it did in testing. Including the DNS, which is usually what breaks.
Where we draw the line
Tick-to-trade belongs on an FPGA in the same building as the matching engine. No cloud region changes that, and a vendor who tells you otherwise is selling something. What AWS is genuinely better at is everything on either side of that path — which happens to be most of your infrastructure, most of your headcount, and most of your bill.
Engagement
Two weeks, fixed fee. We map what you run, what it costs and where the time and money actually go, then hand you a written set of findings. You keep the report whether or not we work together.
Reviewed Terraform, a migration path that never stops trading, and measurements against the audit baseline so the improvement is a number rather than an opinion. Typically four to ten weeks.
Optional cover across your trading calendar with agreed response times — or a clean handover with runbooks your own team can execute. We are comfortable making ourselves unnecessary.
Contact
A short note about your current setup and what's hurting — cost, latency, audit, or all three. We reply within one business day.