Nomura Uses Llama Models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock to Democratize Generative AI

Q2, Inc., a financial experience company, partnered with AWS Partner Presidio to migrate its largest revenue-generating digital banking product to AWS, avoiding a costly on-premises hardware investment. Q2 set an ambitious goal to decrease costs by 25% to better serve each customer. The AWS migration would prove integral to achieving this goal. To satisfy a tight timeline and rigid uptime requirements, Presidio developed an automated, parallel migration platform called “Q2 Migration Manager” (Q2MM) to accelerate the project.

Using AWS, Altruist maintains system stability and security alongside efficiency-driving tools that financial advisors depend on to deliver better outcomes to more clients at lower costs.

Affirm is a payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth through flexible and transparent financing options. The company wanted to streamline its security operations program to address manual triage, decentralized tooling, and increasing alert fatigue. AWS Partner Expel offered a managed detection and response (MDR) service that integrated seamlessly with Affirm’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Expel MDRTM centralizes monitoring, automates routine tasks, and enhances detection and response workflows Expel reduced the volume of security alerts fielded by engineers by 50 percent and helped Affirm scale the foundations of its security operations program efficiently.

MarketReader is an artificial intelligence (AI) analytics platform providing the financial sector with data-driven explanations of real-time asset movement. During development, MarketReader experienced delays in data delivery and received incomplete datasets from its initial data provider—which reduced the quality of the platform’s insights. To launch its differentiated product, the MarketReader team moved to cloud-based data solutions from AWS Partner Nasdaq, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to obtain direct access to high-quality, real-time market data for all US-listed securities. This approach elevated MarketReader’s US market coverage, increased data delivery time by 98 percent, and helped the platform go live within eight months. MarketReader now delivers timely, accurate insights. It publishes a daily newsletter in only seven minutes, driving customer engagement and expanding the newsletter’s reach up to 400 percent beyond MarketReader’s current client base.