Amazon Web Services (AWS)
University of Nottingham
London, England, United Kingdom
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I hold a Bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Nottingham and have…
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Issy Perkin reposted thisGreat blog post detailing how Gemini leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s NY Local Zone to offer a proximity trading environment to customers with <2ms roundtrip latency. In the blog, Joshua M. Smith and team detail the technical architecture behind the deployment and the benefits customers see with this latency optimized connectivity. Gemini will also be presenting at AWS's New York Financial Services Symposium this week on this topic and how they are using AWS Outposts to host their matching engine in NY5. Link to register below. Gemini Proximity Trading Blog: https://lnkd.in/emrDTbZ9 AWS Financial Services Symposium: https://lnkd.in/eM-DqzKTIssy Perkin reposted thisIn this new blog post, Yucong Sun, Austin Little, and I dive into how Gemini built a high-performance, cloud-native trading API using AWS Local Zones. We illustrate how Gemini was able to dramatically reduce latency for their trading clients in the cloud and improve operations, with results including: ⚡ Lower Latency: AWS Local Zone NYC-2A cut cloud-based round-trip time from 8–12ms down to ~2ms — a 4–5x improvement that brings cloud connectivity within striking distance of physical colocation. 🔗 Seamless Connectivity: Through VPC Peering, trading firms can connect to Gemini's matching engine with sub-2ms RTT, provisioned in minutes rather than the months required for physical cross-connects. 📈 Cloud-Native Scalability: Gemini leverages Amazon EKS, HAProxy, and Amazon Route 53 for dynamic service discovery and load balancing, enabling elastic scaling without sacrificing performance. We also discuss operational overhead, security, and scalable engineering practices. Check out the full story to learn how AWS Local Zones can solve complex latency and scalability challenges for your trading infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/e55rNhdE Thank you to Yucong Sun and Austin Little from Gemini, as well as Scott Stick Dennis Osentoski Josh Coen George Oakes Jinah Yoo Brianna Rosentrater Rohit Rajput Jason Viar Michael Wade Andrea Sabet Alex Mirarchi at AWS for build help, leadership, feedback, reviews, and publishing! I'm also going to be discussing this on stage with Gemini at the AWS Financial Services Symposium 2026, if you haven't registered! #AWS #LocalZones #Trading #Gemini #FinTech #CryptoGemini delivers high performance, cloud-native trading API with AWS Local Zones | Amazon Web ServicesGemini delivers high performance, cloud-native trading API with AWS Local Zones | Amazon Web Services
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisClaude Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic's most capable model brings deeper professional work capabilities and advanced coding performance. Opus 4.7 works better through ambiguity, is more thorough in its problem solving, and follows instructions more precisely. Powered by Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine, Claude Opus 4.7 runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure built for generative AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads. Learn more about building with Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock. https://go.aws/4eaEB47
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisBig day at #WhatsNextWithAWS. We’re giving customers both the applications and the building blocks to make agents real in production. You can see that across today’s announcements. We’re expanding our partnership with OpenAI: • OpenAI models now available through Bedrock • Codex on Bedrock for enterprise development • Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, to build and run agents at scale Amazon Connect is evolving into a set of agentic solutions that run core business workflows. And Amazon Quick is becoming an even more powerful AI assistant. Quick learns how you work, builds context over time, and takes action across your data and systems. I’ve been using Quick’s new desktop app over the past few weeks, and it’s the biggest AI productivity boost I’ve seen so far. I encourage you to check it out. These are just a few highlights. More on today’s news here: Amazon Quick: https://lnkd.in/eCyyM7ud Amazon Connect: https://lnkd.in/eGuRJUeP AWS-OpenAI partnership: https://lnkd.in/e9zK-Qtz
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted this3 releases with OpenAI: - OpenAI models available on Bedrock - Codex on Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAIAWS and OpenAI announce expanded partnership to bring frontier intelligence to the infrastructure you already trustAWS and OpenAI announce expanded partnership to bring frontier intelligence to the infrastructure you already trust
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisClaude Cowork is now available via Amazon Bedrock in public research preview. Organizations can run Claude Cowork through their own AWS environment, keeping prompts, files, and model responses within their AWS account. https://go.aws/3Qpm6in
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisI'm excited to share that Part 2 of our blog series is now live: Building on the foundation we laid in Part 1, this post dives deeper into the architectural patterns and AWS services that help digital asset exchanges and market markers minimize tick-to-trade latency. Optimize tick-to-trade latency for digital assets exchanges and trading platforms on AWS: Part 2 https://lnkd.in/epfXWMYX authors: David Dornseifer ir. Sercan Karaoğlu Boris Litvin David Sung reviewers: Alex Mirarchi and Tom HayhurstOptimize tick-to-trade latency for digital assets exchanges and trading platforms on AWS: Part 2 | Amazon Web ServicesOptimize tick-to-trade latency for digital assets exchanges and trading platforms on AWS: Part 2 | Amazon Web Services
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Issy Perkin shared this📣 Dr Werner Vogels VP & CTO, Amazon, Alison Kay, VP of AWS UK & Ireland, and Francessca Vasquez, VP Professional Services and Agentic AI at AWS, are coming to #AWSSummit London. Now more than ever, it's critical for technology, product AND line of business leaders to get exclusive insights on how cloud technology is transforming businesses. Register today https://lnkd.in/edvkdUkA
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisRegistration for #AWSSummit London 2026 is now open! 🚀 I'll be joining Aris and Annabell to talk about how open-source frameworks enable you to build agents at scale. The agentic AI ecosystem moves fast. Teams are leveraging open-source frameworks and tools like LangGraph, Strands, and Langfuse to stay at the cutting edge. AgentCore works with open source, giving teams the flexibility to use their preferred tools while getting AWS-grade reliability, security, and scale. Hope to see you there! 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehif6YEy #AWS #AmazonBedrock #AgentAI #GenerativeAI Aris Tsakpinis Annabell Schäfer Anastasia Tzeveleka Anna Grüebler Clark Mehran Nikoo
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Issy Perkin reposted thisIssy Perkin reposted thisExcited to share a new multi-year, strategic partnership between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI, which is going to accelerate what builders everywhere can get done. Here's what we're bringing to life together: ▪️Stateful Runtime Environment: OpenAI and AWS are co-creating a next-generation stateful runtime, available on Amazon Bedrock, so developers can build AI agents that maintain context, memory, and continuity at production scale. ▪️Exclusive Cloud Home for OpenAI Frontier: AWS will be the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for Frontier — OpenAI's most advanced enterprise platform for deploying AI agents at scale. ▪️2 Gigawatts of Trainium Compute: OpenAI is going big on our custom silicon. This expansion of our multi-year agreement means more efficient, cost-effective intelligence at scale — spanning Trainium3 and the next-gen Trainium4. ▪️Custom Models for Amazon: OpenAI and Amazon will co-develop models to power Amazon's customer-facing applications, giving our teams even more tools to build and deliver. ▪️$50 Billion Investment: Amazon is investing $50B in OpenAI — a strong signal of our long-term commitment to this partnership. We have millions of customers eager to build with OpenAI’s advanced technology on the world's most trusted cloud. This partnership makes that possible — securely, at scale, and without the infrastructure headaches. The future of AI is being built on AWS. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/ei_m-w6k
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Issy Perkin liked thisIssy Perkin liked thisI'm in New York for Anthropic's The Briefing: Financial Services - and what a way to kick things off. Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon took the stage together, in front of 500+ leaders from JPMorganChase, Goldman Sachs, Citi, and many more. A genuine, high-level reckoning with what AI means for markets, the workforce, and the global economy. Worth every minute. At Indicium AI, we work with many of the world's leading Financial Services firms - so it's fair to say we're in good company. The big announcements from Anthropic: → 10 pre-built AI agents for banking, asset management & insurance - capable of building pitchbooks, auditing statements, and drafting credit memos with minimal human intervention → A $1.5B JV with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman → Moody's Corporation's data on 600M+ companies now flowing directly into Claude The shift is real. AI in financial services is no longer about chat tools or pilots. It's about infrastructure - autonomous workflows with audit trails and governance built in. The question every FS leader should be asking isn't 'should we explore AI?... it's 'how fast can we move from pilot to production?' Want to see how Indicium AI and Anthropic are transforming leading financial services organisations like LSEG? Join us at our Symposium on May 14th in London - register here: https://lnkd.in/g6dwmmg9 #AI #FinancialServices #Anthropic #IndiciumAI
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Issy Perkin liked thisIssy Perkin liked thisEarly in my AWS career I had the privilege of working on a side project with some colleagues on how we could think differently about automating some of the internal tasks we did on a day-to-day basis. That side project turned into our own little ‘start-up’ within Amazon, leading to the formation of an awesome team that showed me how much I love varied work, operating in global diverse teams and working with people who are much, much smarter than me. In 2023, while we transitioned that project on to a different function internally, I stumbled across the MSt at University of Cambridge, and I thought: where better to find a new diverse group of people, passionate about building cool things, and who will almost certainly be significantly more intelligent than me (spoiler alert: they were…x100). So this past weekend I was really proud to graduate. The feeling I had on Saturday (and have had for a while) is one of gratitude. Growing up, my parents continuously encouraged us to be relentless in the pursuit of knowledge and to never stop learning. I will always be grateful for my managers at AWS who echoed that and didn’t even bat an eye when I asked to do this Masters in addition to my day job, and my team members, friends and peers in the program who supported me since that day. So thank you to all of those folks over the years, Mike & Sabs pictured here, and to Becca Stark and Amanda Sleight for saying yes to this adventure back then.
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Issy Perkin liked thisIssy Perkin liked thisAnd just like that, my nearly 14 years at Softcat comes to an end. Softcat has been home during the most formative years of my career, and I feel incredibly lucky to have been part of something so special. I joined in 2012 as a 21-year-old graduate (first picture), moving from Bournemouth to High Wycombe to start a sales role in the Marlow head office. Back then, Softcat was around 350 people, with three offices and hardly anyone I knew had even heard of it. But it didn’t take long to fall in love with the place, the people, the culture, and the shared ambition to one day become the best in the industry. From day one, I was surrounded by brilliant people and a culture that genuinely set the standard. A few years in, Adam Fraser gave me the opportunity to move to what was then a small London office and my connection to the business grew even stronger. Fast forward seven years, and I was entrusted by the all-knowing Daniel Robinson to take over leading that same office. Together, we built it into the largest sales team in the company, while staying true to the culture that made it special in the first place. We smashed targets, set records, and had a LOT of fun along the way. I'm leaving it in an incredibly strong position, and I know it will continue to thrive under John Gatrell and Harry Moran. It’s a real luxury to have genuinely enjoyed who I worked with and a privilege to have respected every person I worked for. Not everyone gets to say that. There are far too many people to thank for the part they’ve played in this journey, but a few deserve a special mention. Ty Gooden — for supporting me day in, day out over the last few years. Sarah Thomas — for being a constant friend through it all. Graeme Watt — for encouraging me to take the leap in the first place. Daniel Robinson— for being the mentor and coach everyone should be lucky enough to have. And to the whole London office — for believing in me, backing me, and showing up for each other in the way that makes that place so special. There’s a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that’s always stuck with me: “To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” I’ll never truly know the impact I’ve had, but if I’ve made even one person’s experience better, then I’ve achieved everything I could have hoped for at Softcat. There will never be enough words to express how grateful I am for the experience, the opportunities, the lessons, and most importantly the people. The only way I can repay that is by carrying those standards forward and applying everything I’ve learned in what comes next. So with that in mind… watch this space!
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Issy Perkin liked thisIssy Perkin liked thisAfter more than 8 years, I’ve decided to close my chapter at Amazon. Opportunities tend to show up when you’re not looking for them and, occasionally, one comes along that’s hard to ignore. The kind of moment that tells you it’s time. Amazon has been a defining part of my career. I joined early on and ended up staying far longer than I ever expected. Long enough to grow into roles and responsibilities I couldn’t have imagined back then. From Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios and MGM+, I’ve had the chance to work across very different parts of the business and geographies, each shaping how I think today. What I’ll take with me is a way of operating that I suspect will stay with me forever: clarity in writing, a high bar for data and judgement, and a genuine sense of ownership - being ready to step in, speak up, and deliver at any level when it matters. More than anything, it’s the people. I’ve been lucky to work with some exceptional individuals. Colleagues who became close friends and mentors along the way. Too many to name, but you know who you are! I’ll miss that, and I’ll miss the Amazon way. May will be my last month, and I’ll be taking some time to recharge before what comes next. Looking forward to sharing more soon. Stay tuned!
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Issy Perkin liked thisIssy Perkin liked thisToday marks the end of an incredible journey at AWS. I am truely grateful for all the opportunities, personal growth and friends I've made along the way. Special mention to all the incredible team mates and leadership I've had the pleasure of working with. Of course, not forgetting the amazing Partners that I've got to know and collaborate with over the years 🙏 . I'm very excited about my next move (stay tuned), but for now it's time to take the summer off and spend some time with the family as I prepare for the next chapter.
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Amazon Web Services - Certified Solution Architect - Associate
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INSEAD Online - Developing Emerging Leaders
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INSEAD Online Programme – Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption.
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