Case Study: Foreks achieves 50ms-faster market-data delivery and major cost savings with Amazon Web Services

Foreks - Customer Case Study

Foreks, founded in 1990, is a leading market-data provider serving banks, brokers, exchanges, and individual investors across Turkey and Greece. Facing massive, predictable traffic spikes (from 100,000 to 2 million requests per minute at market open) and rapid mobile growth, the company needed to eliminate costly overprovisioning and accelerate time-to-market while maintaining low-latency, reliable data delivery.

Foreks moved more than 95% of its infrastructure to AWS and embraced serverless, containerized, and DevOps practices—using services such as Lambda, Batch, DynamoDB, S3, and Kubernetes—with automated self-deploy pipelines. The migration cut deployment times from weeks to minutes, reduced costs (one service saved 70–75% versus EC2), eliminated idle hardware, and improved data delivery speed by about 50 milliseconds versus competitors, enabling new cloud-consulting revenue streams.

Foreks

Umur Coskuncan

Lead DevSecOps Engineer