- AWS began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now widely known as cloud computing
- Announced Amazon FinSpace, a purpose-built analytics service that reduces the time it takes FSI organizations to find, prepare financial data
- Amazon FinSpace aggregates, catalogs, and tags data across an organization’s data silos, making the data easily searchable by the entire organization
- The service includes a purpose-built managed Apache Spark analytics engine that contains over 100 data transformations
- Amazon FinSpace ensures that data access controls enforced and usage tracked at all times
- Provides an easy-to-use web application that gives analysts at hedge funds, asset management firms, insurance companies, investment banks
