--- title: "Public Cloud for Financial Services | AWS, Azure, GCP | Pico" description: "Seamless integration with AWS, Azure, and GCP: managed connectivity, secured VPCs, Corvil cloud monitoring, and on-premise cloud-native services for financial trading workloads." source: https://www.pico.net/products/market-services/infrastructure/cloud-services/public-cloud/ markdown_url: https://www.pico.net/products/market-services/infrastructure/cloud-services/public-cloud.md --- # Public Cloud Seamless integration with all major public cloud providers: managed connectivity, secured VPCs, Corvil cloud monitoring, and on-premise cloud-native services for latency-sensitive financial workloads. - Up to 10Gbps managed connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP via PicoNet™ - Secured VPCs with managed perimeter security by Pico InfoSec team - Corvil Analytics monitoring of all cloud VPC traffic: on-prem-grade visibility - On-premise cloud-native services: AWS Outpost, Google Anthos, Azure Stack ## What is Pico Public Cloud? Pico provides seamless integration with all major public cloud providers. Utilizing premier fiber providers, the PicoNet™ backbone delivers up to 10Gbps connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP with redundant and diverse network access. All connectivity passes through low-latency, high-performance firewalls with IDS. Pico also provides industry-unique Corvil monitoring of all cloud VPC traffic, delivering significantly higher visibility than cloud-native solutions: the equality of visibility between on-prem and cloud environments dramatically reduces time to fix and eliminates finger-pointing. ## Capabilities and related services ### Corvil Cloud Monitoring Industry-unique Corvil monitoring of all VPC traffic: same telemetry as on-prem for consistent visibility. ### Secured VPCs Firewall, IDS/IPS managed by Pico Information and Cyber Security team for cloud perimeter security. ### Hybrid Cloud Combine public cloud with on-prem colocation for workloads that need both cloud agility and exchange proximity. ### Private Cloud Dedicated hardware private cloud for maximum security, no shared infrastructure. ### PicoNet™ The ultra-low latency global network backbone delivering managed connectivity to all major cloud providers. ## Public cloud use cases ### Cloud-native analytics - Run big data analytics, machine learning, and risk models on elastic cloud compute - Corvil monitoring ensures visibility equal to on-prem environments ### On-premise cloud native - Deploy AWS Outpost, Google Anthos, or Azure Stack in Pico data centers - Cloud-native compute with data co-located near exchange matching engines ### Cloud migration - Managed migration path from on-prem to cloud with Pico handling connectivity and security - Phased approach: move workloads gradually while maintaining trading performance ## Frequently asked questions Everything you need to know about Pico Public Cloud. ### How does Pico connect to public cloud providers? Pico uses premier fiber providers via the PicoNet™ backbone to deliver up to 10Gbps connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP. Network and hosting services are available at sub-1G, 1G, and 10G speeds with redundant and diverse network access. Clients simply cross-connect to Pico at one of many data centers to get low-latency access to major cloud providers. ### What is Corvil cloud monitoring? Pico Public Cloud provides industry-unique Corvil monitoring of all cloud VPC traffic, delivering significantly higher levels of visibility and performance transparency compared to cloud-native solutions. The Corvil Cloud solution provides the same level of telemetry available on-premise, so the equality of visibility between both environments dramatically reduces time to fix and eliminates finger-pointing between parties. ### What are on-premise cloud-native services? Pico's partnerships with major public cloud providers allow turnkey deployment of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS Outpost, Google Anthos/GKE, Azure Stack) within Pico-managed data center environments. This brings cloud-native compute, storage, containerization, and serverless paradigms to on-prem environments for latency-sensitive or data-co-located workloads. ### What connectivity speeds are available? PicoNet™ delivers sub-1G, 1G, and 10G connectivity speeds with redundant and diverse network access from any Pico data center worldwide. All connectivity passes through low-latency, high-performance firewalls managed by Pico's Information and Cyber Security team. ### How is VPC security managed? Pico's Information and Cyber Security team builds and manages cloud perimeter security for all VPCs, including firewall configuration, IDS/IPS deployment, and ongoing security monitoring. This provides the same level of security governance in cloud as on-prem. ### Can I combine public cloud with on-prem colocation? Yes. Pico Hybrid Cloud extends on-prem colocation to public cloud providers with managed connectivity, financial-grade security, and equal Corvil monitoring across both environments. This eliminates the tradeoff between cloud agility and exchange proximity. ### Which cloud providers does Pico support? Pico supports AWS, Azure, and GCP with managed connectivity, secured VPCs, and Corvil cloud monitoring. On-premise cloud-native options are available for each provider: AWS Outpost, Google Anthos/GKE, and Azure Stack, all deployable in Pico-managed data centers. ## Connect to public cloud Talk to a Pico specialist about managed connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP with financial-grade security and monitoring.