The document discusses FINRA's use of Amazon Web Services to build an analytics architecture. It allows FINRA to perform validation, data management, linkage, and data analytics on data stored in Amazon S3, Glacier, and Redshift. FINRA can perform both batch analytics and interactive visualizations. The architecture provides a universal data science platform and has evolved FINRA's analytics portfolio over time. FINRA's analytics impacts include removing obstacles, lowering the cost of curiosity, and optimizing both batch and interactive workloads without compromise.