HDFC Securities Launches Mobile Trading App HDFC SKY On AWS Cloud

Current Context: HDFC Securities, one of India’s leading investment service providers, has launched its new mobile trading app, HDFC SKY, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud on November 27, 2023.

• With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, HDFC Securities is providing a secure, stable, and low-latency trading service for the growing number of tech-savvy retail investors who prefer mobile trading.
• The app, HDFC SKY, which is built on AWS, gives investors access to the stock market at a scale of thousands of transactions per second.
• HDFC SKY serves 75 million customers and all HDFC Group companies, investors, and traders globally on trading of shares, commodities, futures, currencies, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), mutual funds, and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).

Question:

Q.1 On which cloud service is the HDFC SKY app built?
a. Google Cloud
b. Microsoft Azure
c. IBM Cloud
d. Amazon Web Services (AWS)