Analyzing 80 Billion Trade Records Daily Using AWS and Starburst Enterprise

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a not-for-profit organization
authorized by the U.S. Congress to regulate a critical part of the securities industry –
brokerage firms doing business with the public. One way that FINRA carries out this
mission is by analyzing billions of daily trading events from financial institutions to
detect fraud, insider trading, and abuse.
To address the challenges of massive data growth and increasing demand for efficient
computing, FINRA migrated its legacy data warehousing systems to an Amazon Web
Services (AWS) data lake. When redesigning its data platform, FINRA chose to separate
compute and storage and query its multi-PB AWS data lake using Starburst Enterprise,
the world’s fastest distributed SQL query engine.