Marketecture: Get Smart. Fast. Episode 171: Dispatch from Possible plus Andrew Casale on Index's cloud computing initiative
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May 1, 2026 
Andrew Casale, CEO of Index Exchange, explains Index’s push to run containerized bidders and data in its cloud. The conversation covers deploying DSPs at the exchange edge, cost and speed tradeoffs, data privacy and security, and how cloud-based exchange infrastructure could reshape bidding, measurement, and AI-driven workflows.
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Exchange Hosted Containers Cut Data Egress Costs
- Index Exchange runs partner code inside its own cloud containers, moving compute on‑premises to the exchange rather than shipping the firehose to partners.
- Andrew Casale said this eliminates ingest/egress costs and lets partners focus on code while Index bills CPU cores, yielding far higher QPS per core.
Early Container Experiments With Chalice And Gracenote
- Index's first container tests began with Chalice and later included custom bidders, data providers and Bedrock's bidder.
- Casale listed partners like Empowered, Cybids, Nano and Gracenote as early deployments that proven the model.
Edge Speed Multiplies CPU Efficiency
- Index's containers process requests far faster, increasing CPU efficiency so one core handles more QPS than equivalent public cloud or co‑located setups.
- Casale said Index doesn't charge ingress/egress and instead charges CPU cores, and their cores yield "insanely high" performance.