Nasdaq and AWS Expand Cloud-Based Market Infrastructure Partnership

Nasdaq and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have deepened their collaboration to deliver cloud-based financial infrastructure solutions. The expansion builds on Nasdaq’s successful migration of core systems—including matching engines—to AWS, which CEO Adena Friedman credits for improved scalability and operational resilience during the Q1 2025 earnings call.

’Our cloud transition has fundamentally enhanced our ability to adapt to market demands,’ Friedman stated, highlighting the infrastructure’s instant scalability. The partnership now aims to modernize broader capital markets infrastructure by applying lessons from Nasdaq’s own cloud transformation.

The announcement underscores growing institutional adoption of cloud solutions in financial markets infrastructure—a trend that could accelerate blockchain integration as traditional and digital asset markets converge.