Trading in the Cloud
…while keeping your feet on the ground!
ORbyte Solutions Ltd
Cédric Roll / Francis Otshudi
AWS Startup Tour 2009

About us
\"We leverage our experience in software
development, project delivery and IT
operations to build products and offer services
which enable our customers to gain a
competitive advantage and fully exploit the
potential of their technology\"
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About us
• Products and services based on:
– Web 2.0
– RIA (Rich Internet Application)
– XTP (eXtreme Transaction Processing)
– Cloud Computing
• Core segments: Retail Brokers, Traders’
communities and financial content providers
• FX platform first version released in January
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FX and CFD trading application
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Key benefits of Cloud Computing
• “Save for a rainy day”: Cost control for a start-
up
• “The Sky is the limit”: Access to an
infrastructure we just couldn’t afford
otherwise
• “Agile provisioning”
• “Unique Selling Point (USP) enhancer”
– Provide options
– Trading services on demand
– POC and Time to market
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Our Experience in EC2
Gigaspaces EC2 Cloud Tools
• Used to deploy our processing layer
(price calculations, order
processing, risk
calculations, margins,…)
• XML used to describe the application
and the provisioning requirements in
EC2
• SSL encrypted remote access to the
instance (NX client)
• Access to the performance monitor
for the grid cluster and individual
server instance
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Our Experience in EC2
S3 Fox - S3 Firefox
Organiser
• Used to get the application
into our S3 buckets
• Stores our private AMI (for
our web services layer)
• Upload chart close of
business data into S3
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Next Steps
• Performance benchmarks
• Cost benchmarks
• Failover and recovery
• Monitoring
• Security and regulation
• Cloud provider evaluation
• Other Amazon products:
DevPay, MapReduce,...
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Stay Tuned
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