Nasdaq and AWS Unveil Managed Cloud Service for Calypso Platform

Details

• Nasdaq and Amazon Web Services expanded their strategic partnership on September 25, 2025, to offer Nasdaq Calypso as a fully managed service hosted on AWS, with Nasdaq overseeing technology management.
• The service is designed for financial institutions aiming to modernize their capital markets and treasury operations, providing a unified platform for front-to-back office processes, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• This managed model removes the burden of maintaining infrastructure from clients, allowing faster rollouts, easier upgrades, and steady access to the most current, secure, and resilient technology.
• The announcement extends Nasdaq’s established AWS partnership and follows its $10.5 billion acquisition of Adenza in 2023, which added Calypso Technology to its solutions portfolio.
• Calypso currently serves 97% of global systemically important banks, half of the world’s largest stock exchanges, and 35 central banks, making this AWS deployment a major step toward broader adoption of cloud-native financial technology.

Impact

This development underscores the rapid industry shift to cloud-native and managed service models in capital markets technology, promising greater agility and compliance for major financial institutions. As regulatory and performance expectations rise, Nasdaq and AWS are strengthening their competitive position against traditional on-premises providers and other cloud vendors. The partnership accelerates the movement toward scalable, unified platforms that modernize global financial infrastructure.