Big: Bloomberg to Offer B-Pipe via Cloud

This is big:

Bloomberg has begun making its B-Pipe datafeed available via Amazon Web Services’ PrivateLink cloud, to simplify connectivity to the feed for clients migrating their applications and technology stacks to cloud environments. 

The cloud-based feed will provide the same level and quality of data—and will be governed by the same service-level agreement—as its existing B-Pipe feed and Bloomberg Professional terminal, officials say, adding that clients will use the same APIs as they would to connect to the feed in their own datacenter, and will manage entitlements and permissioning in the same way.

The question, of course is what it's been all along: will (or to what extent will) a feeds business cannibalize Bloomberg's terminal business? Time will tell.

While the service is initially available via AWS, Bloomberg plan to offer Cloud-based B-Pipe via Google and Microsoft as well.

Waters has the details.

- Kevan Huston