Amazon FinSpace
#182 · Level 3 · Modern architecture · Data and analyticsConcept
Section titled “Concept”Amazon FinSpace is a special data platform for financial institutions — mainly for running the market-data database called kdb. kdb is a database from the company KX, built for time-series data. In work like trading, the price and transactions of every moment are stored and analyzed in it. FinSpace runs this kdb environment on AWS as a managed service. This reduces the hassle of setting up, scaling and maintaining servers.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”A separate research lab built for stock market experts.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”Analyzing huge amounts of time-series financial market data needs special tools, and those are complicated to run.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”Trading and risk analysis, market data history.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”No direct match
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: