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If a big exchange goes to the cloud it won’t look like a regular company setting up an aws account and getting a bunch of ec2 instances in us-east-1. They would
by onionisafruit 3y ago
If a big exchange goes to the cloud it won’t look like a regular company setting up an aws account and getting a bunch of ec2 instances in us-east-1. They would at least have dedicated racks.
I suspect the provider would end up with a plan where traders can get servers that all have the same network distance from the exchange’s nics (down to the same length of fiber).
- SamuelAdams 3y agoHonestly for something this niche I wonder if AWS would make a new region, like gov-cloud or secret. The goal would be to use tech that can accommodate ULL deployments.
- posnet 3y agoThis seems to the most likely, and it's not unheard of, they have 'local regions' like osaka in Japan. Alternatively they could just stick a bunch of Outpost racks in the NYSE/NASDAQ data center and create an 'eXn.8xlarge' instance type and charge 100$ an hour.
- kikimora 3y agoI think and exchange would use AWS Outposts to get hardware in their data center.
- gpderetta 3y agoBut at that point it would be just another colo, right?