Case Study: NASDAQ OMX achieves threefold faster time-to-market and low-cost, scalable historical data delivery with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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NASDAQ OMX’s Global Data Products division builds market-data tools like Market Replay — which lets customers replay millisecond-level market activity — and Data‑On‑Demand for programmatic access to historical files. The challenge was supporting a growing customer base and storing vast, long‑term tick data without investing in costly in‑house infrastructure or sacrificing security, performance, or time‑to‑market.

The team chose AWS (notably Amazon S3) to host and serve hundreds of thousands of small files daily, cutting time‑to‑market threefold and proving the model with a low‑cost pilot ($50 first month). The move delivered cost‑effective, scalable storage, removed infrastructure burden, enabled near‑instant customer access, reduced risk for new products, and positioned NASDAQ OMX to expand services quickly.

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Jeff Kimsey

Associate Vice President of Product Management