The Nasdaq stock exchange was founded in 1971 as the world’s first electronic stock market, and over the last 50 years it has aimed to stay on the cutting edge of digital innovation.
The cutting edge of innovation is now happening in the cloud, which is where Nasdaq is firmly headed. In a session at the AWS re:Invent conference in 2021, Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq (pictured), outlined how Nasdaq is currently using the cloud and how it plans to use it in the future.
Nasdaq’s Size and Scale Requirements
A primary requirement for Nasdaq is low latency, as time is quite literally money. End-to-end order processing on the platform, Friedman said, occurs in 20 microseconds or less.
