The Foundation
The growth in cloud computing has been astronomical. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all seen healthy double digit growth rates in their cloud divisions since inception. There is a reason: the cloud simplifies the creation of digital infrastructure and offers 100s of services that had previously only been available to the biggest Tech companies. The Cloud has leveled the playing field for every industry around the globe by giving them access to tools that would have never been possible without billions of dollars in investment.
Single person companies, world governments, and the largest organizations in the world have all migrated to the cloud. This trend will only continue and leave behind those who are not migrating. Leveraging cloud technology is critical for any organization looking to grow in the 21st century.
ALT Analytics and Precision Volatility were founded in 2023 and had minimal start-up funding to setup their business.
Tony purchased domain names at GoDaddy and then moved them over to AWS. He set up two different organizations with email addresses and websites. He leveraged other tools such as S3 and Lambda to test trading strategies or EC2 and Athena to build dashboards that could be used in client meetings to explore data in real-time. All of this was done on a budget of less than $20 a month! These costs would have been in the many thousands only a decade ago.
A global publicly traded tech company was modifying their services in a way that would impact their quarterly financial reporting. The requirements were not clear and constantly changing. Tech teams were understaffed and could not dedicate enough resources to building out a new reporting architecture.
Tony started meeting with business stakeholders and project managers to understand the new service offering and probe into the complexity of the changes. He laid out a back-end architecture that could create forecasts, ingest user inputs, and integrate into existing systems. He built a front-end and back-end architecture entirely on the cloud. Using a host of AWS services, he completed the application ahead of schedule and designed it so that it could change with the program as it evolved. Tony also constructed the architecture so it could be easily migrated to another cloud environment when the Tech team was allocated resources to support the program.