6 Waves Limited
6 Waves Limited, a leading international publisher and developer of gaming applications on the Facebook platform, uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to host its social games with an audience of more than 50 million players per month.

8 Securities
8 Securities accomplishes its mission of reinventing investing in Hong Kong by providing a Trading Portal where users have access to resources that enable them to learn from and exchange ideas with like-minded investors. To maintain a cost-effective, reliable, scalable, flexible computing platform, the company uses several services from Amazon Web Services, including Amazon EC2 with Elastic IP Addresses, Amazon EBS, Amazon VPC, and Amazon ELB.

8KMiles
8KMiles.com is a distributed development platform that blends a global talent marketplace with collaboration tools and cloud infrastructure. 8KMiles.com runs on AWS services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon CloudWatch.

99designs
99designs’ massive design marketplace has received over 3.1 Million unique design submissions from over 53,000 designers around the world and runs entirely on AWS.

A+ Test Prep and Tutoring
A+ Test Prep and Tutoring, located near Philadelphia, PA, was looking for a reliable and scalable environment to enable online tutoring for students worldwide. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), A+ was able to create an online tutoring platform that has run at near 100% uptime since its inception.

Abaca
Abaca, a spam blocking application, chooses Amazon EC2 as a low-cost computing alternative after they surpass their estimated growth rate.

Active.com
This case study describes the adoption of Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and other AWS services by Active.com—the leading online sports community for enthusiasts and competitors to discover, learn about, register for and ultimately participate in a wide range of sporting events and recreational activities.

Active Interview
Active Interview is a video-enabled candidate screening Web application conducting virtual interviews in more than 50 countries. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, Active Interview’s application is fully deployed through Amazon Web Services (AWS) with web servers running on Amazon EC2 instances and video content served from Amazon S3.

Actual Analytics
Actual Analytics develops solutions for automated, assisted video content analysis, enabling indexing and searching of video content based on what is happening in the video. The company uses Amazon Web Services to affordably power all of the scalability, storage, and processing behind their SaaS offering.

AdaptiveBlue
Glue uses Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon S3 and EC2 to power their browser add-on which lets users share feedback with their friends on things found on Amazon.com, MTV, Wikipedia, and other websites.

ADTsys
ADTsys offers web infrastructure services, including migration help for companies transitioning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from physical hardware. Currently ADTsys is utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudFront to develop customized solutions for its customers, such as the television station TV Século 21 and the digital ad agency AgênciaClick. However, the company may expand its current services even further by integrating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and Amazon Route 53 into its existing AWS feature stack.

AEG
Worldwide entertainment facility provider AEG needed an intranet site for users both inside and outside the corporate network. Huddle Group, an Argentina-based systems integrator and member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), partnered with AEG to create a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and a SharePoint intranet site. The site provides 99% availability to AEG’s new VPC for 10,000 worldwide users.

Airbnb
Airbnb is a community marketplace for unique vacation spaces around the world. Airbnb benefits from the scalability, agility and reliability provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

Airport Nuremberg
Airport Nuremberg needed a flexible and scalable website to handle demand during peak periods. Infopark GA, an AWS partner, used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a highly available and secure website for Airport Nuremberg. The airport estimates saving 60-70% compared to previous web hosting costs.

Animoto
New York-based Animoto launched its web application in 2007, allowing people to create and share videos via the web or mobile device. Using AWS, Animoto scales seamlessly to handle spikes in demand.

Appirio
Appirio worked closely with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) to migrate their infrastructure to AWS.

Arcus Global
Arcus Global has built solutions for UK government bodies on AWS, following stringent security guidelines that the UK requires. Arcus Global also runs all of its internal services on Amazon EC2, using Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS for storage, and benefits from Amazon Web Services' ability to host data and applications in Europe.

Asahi Shimbun Company / Mainichi Newspapers
Shogi, a form of chess, is a popular game in Japan in which matches can be watched on the Meijinsen Live Scoreboard website. To handle peak demand during the Meijinsen Professional Shogi Players’ Championship Series, co-sponsors Asahi Shimbun Company and Mainichi Newspapers turned to AWS to help scale traffic from 600 to 4,000 hits/second.

Assay Depot
Assay Depot uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide customized software for the pharmaceutical industry and to manage a marketplace for drug discovery research.

Autodesk
Autodesk, a leading provider of 3D design and engineering software, wanted to create subscription-based versions of its products for the home market. Autodesk is leveraging AWS so the company can deploy software to a new market without planning and budgeting for infrastructure.

Autodesk Seek
Autodesk, Inc. selects Amazon Web Services as the infrastructure upon which to build its new software-as-a-service solution, Autodesk Seek.

Avianca
Avianca, a Brazilian domestic air carrier with a reputation for passenger comfort and competitive pricing, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host content for its marketing department. AWS provides a secure environment at an estimated 60% of the cost of an on-premises solution.

BackType
BackType develops products and services that help companies understand their social impact by measuring online conversations. To manage a complex system that processes data in both batch and real-time, the company uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for servers.

Banro Corporation
Banro is a Canadian gold mining company with exploration and development on four wholly-owned properties, each with mining licenses, along a major gold belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In order to update the company’s IT infrastructure and effectively serve its five locations in Canada and Africa, Banro adopted an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud strategy that uses Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and Amazon S3.

Barcoo
Checkitmobile GmbH, a technology start-up in Berlin, Germany, is the creator of barcoo, a barcode scanning app that links products with independent consumer information. With more than six million downloads across five countries in Europe, checkitmobile can scale the Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution in minutes to meet customer demand.

BigDoor Media
AWS "saved the day" for BigDoor Media when the company needed to scale from a handful of static servers to more than 50 servers to get a new product to market. BigDoor Media develops game mechanics for Websites and mobile applications, running entirely on AWS. Services used include Elastic Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling groups, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

Blue Star Infotech Ltd.
Blue Star Infotech Ltd. (BSIL) enables global enterprises to derive measurable business outcomes through the efficient use of information technology. Through use of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), BSIL successfully incorporated AWS as part of its internal architecture for a proof of concept project for one of its clients.

BrowserMob
BrowserMob is a Neustar service that provides Website load testing and monitoring for companies that need to ensure online performance. The service combines Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) On-Demand Instances and Spot Instances to perform its load testing. BrowserMob uses Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) while operating its monitoring services and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for data backup while using Spot Instances.

BuildFax
BuildFax uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver building and permit information to housing professionals across the country. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB) deliver content to the company's customers while Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) stores massive amounts of required data, which is processed using Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

Cantina Consulting
Cantina is a technology consulting firm specializing in Integrated Video Management, Mobile, Social Media, and Emerging Technologies. Cantina leverages Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, along with major Internet technology stacks including Ruby on Rails, Groovy on Grails, Java/EE, .NET, and PHP, for its client solutions.

Channel Dynamix
Channel Dynamix uses Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2 API, AMI and Amazon SDKs for its Managed Private Cloud and Above the OS offerings.

Chaordic Systems
Chaordic Systems is a Brazilian company that specializes in e-commerce personalization, helping users find products that are most valuable to them, and helping retailers increase profits. The company was looking for a fast, robust, and reliable solution to handle a high workload. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company now runs most of their operations on the AWS cloud, including Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3.

Ci&T
Ci&T offers consulting and technology outsourcing services, including customized applications, SAP, business intelligence, business process management (BPM), IT governance, mobile computing, and product engineering. To build a robust social network for a client, Ci&T made use of several offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Auto Scaling.

Cirrhus9
Ekabhi Enterprises recently came to Cirrhus9 to help them successfully implement a virtual data center that would be used on a global scale by the Chandaria Foundation, global charitable organization.

Classle
Classle's social learning platform serves as a collaborative learning resource for students; especially for the resource and opportunity constrained learners. The company's infrastructure is built entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This infrastructure includes almost all services of AWS including the pairing of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as an origin server and Amazon CloudFront as an edge server. This combination has helped Classle to improve its Web content delivery speed by 180 percent.

CloudPrime
CloudPrime offers cloud-based messaging services for regulated industries, such as the medical field. The Wound Center, a multi-location wound treatment provider, relies on CloudPrime to transfer private patient data in accordance to tightly governed standards. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is an important component in CloudPrime's secure messaging network.

Cmune
Cmune uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudFront to host the browser-based MMOFPS UberStrike, the largest 3D game on Facebook and MySpace.

Conduit
Conduit's free platform allows publishers of any size to create powerful applications using their own brand and content. Publishers can then distribute these applications to their community and, via the Conduit App Marketplace, engage over 100 million users beyond the boundaries of their own Web sites.

Corporate Governance Risk
Corporate Governance Risk Pty Ltd (CGR), developer of a web-based risk management application, found that moving to the AWS Cloud gave the company a competitive edge to deliver services to its European clients in seconds with virtually zero downtime.

Croop-LaFrance
Croop-LaFrance’s CloudDOCX, a hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) document-management service, runs on Amazon EC2, using Amazon EBS and Amazon S3 for storage and backup of customer data.

CSS Corporation
CSS Corporation provides technical support solutions to large and small organizations under the title Tech Support For Dummies™. CSS saves money and time by using AWS services, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to implement their services in the cloud.

Datapipe and Villas Caribe
Datapipe offers a single provider solution to manage mission-critical IT services. Incorporating Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) into its managed cloud solution, Datapipe helps clients seamlessly migrate to AWS while controlling costs and effectively managing infrastructures.

Dextra
Dextra is a Brazilian IT company specializing in custom software development and application lifecycle management. The company's development environment consists of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When an individual project has a unique requirement, the company incorporates additional solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), as necessary. Since it began using AWS, the company reduced its project setup time from weeks to hours and feels it has improved its overall business agility.

Data Security Systems Solutions (DS3)
DS3 moved its authentication servers to the AWS cloud and can now provide its authentication solutions to customers without the enormous costs traditionally associated with purchasing and maintaining hardware servers. DS3 uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for authentication and transaction authorization services.

DigitalChalk
DigitalChalk powers its easy-to-use application for creating, delivering, and managing online training videos using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS.

directthought
directthought worked with Xerox to build a scalable document processing solution that leveraged the cost effective storage of Amazon S3 and the scalable compute resources of Amazon EC2.

DNAnexus
DNAnexus provides a unified system of data management and sequence analysis for DNA sequencing centers and researchers. DNAnexus relies on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to meet the company's extensive storage demand, which will grow from terabytes into petabytes of data. DNAnexus also uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances to conduct all of its DNA analysis, while Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances handle the company's interactive services, such as its client front end portal and visualization tools.

DreamFactory
DreamFactory selects Amazon Web Services as a cost-effective platform which meets technical and business requirements for delivering products in the cloud.

Eagle Genomics
Eagle Genomics uses Amazon's EBS, EC2, RDS, S3, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling, as well as command-line tools, to handle and analyze genomic data for pharmaceutical, agricultural and animal health companies, as well as academic centers.

Educations.com
Educations.com helps students learn about higher education opportunities around the world. Educations.com uses Amazon's DNS Web service, Amazon Route 53, to help it connect with approximately two million Website visitors every month. The company also uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), in addition to several other solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), to manage its 552 Websites.

EDP Renewables
Looking to bolster the flexibility and security of its safety management system, EDP Renewables, the Iberian Peninsula’s third largest energy operator, recently looked to Amazon Web Services to bring its prosafety® management solution to the cloud. Using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon Route 53, the energy company has increased the availability and redundancy of its prosafety® management system while also gaining access to beneficial new features.

Egis Technology
Egis Technology Inc. (EgisTec), a leading sensor provider of fingerprint biometrics and data encryption, uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as a cost-effective platform to deploy their company Website and product Web application.

Electra
Singapore-based Electra is an IT service provider specializing in implementing and running SAP systems for customers across Southeast Asia. Electra uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide customers with a flexible, highly available SAP cloud environment that costs 22% less than on-premises infrastructure.

EMBI
Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence (EMBI) offers “analytics as a service” to hospital emergency departments. The company hosts their offering on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS as a platform for their computing and storage needs enabling EMBI to offer business critical, HIPAA compliant analytics tools to their customers.

Encoding.com
Encoding.com provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) video encoding for customers around the world. Encoding.com runs 100% of its media processing on Amazon EC2, with video storage and instance backups on Amazon S3, AWS Import/Export service for customers with massive video-encoding jobs, and Amazon CloudFront for "cloud video" distribution.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard is a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider.  With deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and PHP, the company provides agile deployment and scaling, high performance, and 24/7 uptime.  Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), the company runs Engine Yard Cloud and Orchestra on infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Ensembl
The Ensembl project produces genome databases for multiple species, and makes this information freely available online. The website is deployed using a range of AWS Services: Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS.

Envoy Media Group
Envoy Media Group is an integrated direct marketing firm that offers solutions and highly-targeted media campaigns running on AWS. Michael Taggart, Chief Technical Officer claims, "I will never build another web app on a traditional datacenter setup again.”

Ericsson
Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The company uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform for provisioning and auto-scale functionality, as well as hosting in multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations with failover between installations, partly based on RightScale features.

Eton Digital
StudentBox online student community chooses Eton Digital to support large scale photo and video sharing via AWS.

European Space Agency
The Data User Elements Program collects data about the planet that is used by various agencies and organizations around the world. The program houses some of its data and end-user products in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). In addition, the program uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to analyze its service usage statistics.

Excelsoft Technologies
Excelsoft Technologies is an eLearning company that develops software platforms and applications to offer online courses, tests, assessments and other tools for the education market. Excelsoft uses Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and Amazon CloudFront to provide its customers with reliable products and services.

Eyejot
Eyejot is an online video mail platform for personal and business use. The platform's Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). The company is confident that AWS will help the platform handle future expansion from traditional web browsers into the mobile market.

Fashiolista
Fashiolista, a fashion-based social network based in the Netherlands, outgrew its colocation facility after attracting more than a million members in two years. To sustain growth, the company established a flexible solution using Amazon Web Services (AWS) that has supported a 150 percent increase in web traffic, allowed Fashiolista to provide 99.99 percent availability, and cut their hardware investments by 60 percent.

Flipboard
Flipboard is one of the world’s first social magazines; the company’s mission is to fundamentally improve how people discover, view, and share content across their social networks. Flipboard has used Amazon Web Services (AWS) since the beginning, incorporating services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for processing; Amazon SimpleDB for operational data; Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for mission critical data; and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon CloudFront for content distribution.

FindTheBest.com
FindTheBest.com is a comparison Website that provides users with the necessary information to make informed decisions about a wide range of topics. The company utilizes Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3 as part of its architecture that offers users sortable categories, smart filters, and expert ratings, among other tools designed to assist consumers in deciding between products and services.

FlyCast
With the FlyCast appMobi developer ecosystem, companies can build mobile applications and deploy them easily across Apple iPhone and iPad devices, Android, and Research in Motion BlackBerry smartphones. FlyCast applications and all media served through them are hosted through AWS infrastructure, including Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon DevPay, and Amazon EC2.

Forward3D
Forward3D, a digital search marketing agency, uses AWS for tracking and redirection services, The company delivers over 20 million visitors per day for its clients who are widely distributed around the globe. AWS has allowed the agency to make use of geographic distribution to decrease latency for end users, while providing automatic fault tolerance. The agency makes use of Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon CloudWatch.

fruux
fruux is a synchronization application that allows Apple® users to synchronize their calendar of events, address book entries, tasks, Safari bookmarks, and Mail notes between multiple computers. fruux utilizes Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS to host the application. The fruux developers will continue to use AWS as the company expands its application's functionality to include mobile devices.

ftopia
To deliver their online file-sharing application, ftopia decided to use Amazon Web Services and leverage its data centers in the EU and US. Lisez en français.

GatherSpace
GatherSpace.com, a requirements-management company that develops software to successfully manage small- and large-scale projects, runs its Tomcat applications in conjunction with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to establish regional servers closer to its clients and to fine-tune its queries for faster processing.

Generativa
Generativa/Conam is an expert in ERP solutions for municipalities. The company partnered with W5 Solutions, a specialist in business intelligence, to develop the Transparency Portal, an online channel that allows municipalities to comply with the Transparency Law in Brazil. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables the Portal to receive information from 70 municipalities and consolidate it on 30 servers for testing, homologation, and production.

GeneXus
When Artech needed an efficient, cost-effective method of deploying products to its worldwide customer base, the company turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables Artech to significantly reduce server setup times while scaling capacity to accommodate fluctuating needs. As a result, Artech has significantly reduced expenses and product time-to-market.

Gibraltar Area Schools
Gibraltar Area Schools in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, was balancing the expense of aging servers with the realities of a limited state budget. The district decided to forgo local infrastructure in favor of a scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment—saving themselves an estimated 25 percent in hardware costs over the next 5 years. The district is using the savings to buy laptops for students and build out a wireless network on campus.

Global Blue
Global Blue is a multi-national firm that has been instrumental in delivering tax-free shopping and refund points to international travelers for nearly 30 years. The company’s network has helped 270,000 retailers, shopping brands, and hotels in 40 countries. In 2010, Global Blue handled over 20 million transactions worldwide and an estimated 55,000 travelers use their services everyday. To help track the transactions occurring between merchants, banks, and international travelers, the company needed to create more capacity for their business intelligence (BI) needs. As a result of moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Global Blue has increased speed, capacity, and scalability—all while avoiding $800,000 in CapEx and $78,000 in OpEx costs that would have been spent self-hosting.

GoAnimate
GoAnimate is a Web application that lets users easily create cartoon animations, for free, without having to draw. The company has seen its development time reduced through its use of AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).

Gol Airlines
By combining an innovative concept with the technical expertise of Amazon Web Services (AWS), GOL Airlines created an onboard entertainment solution for its passengers. The company developed an Intranet system that is installed in the aircraft, thereby offering diverse entertainment options in flight. Stored using AWS, the content can be remotely updated.

GoSquared
GoSquared provides real-time Website analytics for over 8,000 Websites around the world. Amazon Web Services (AWS)—including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)—forms the backbone of all of the compute and storage resources necessary for GoSquared's high performance real-time applications.

Gravity Jack
Gravity Jack recently built an augmented reality mobile application called browsAR based on the Quick Augmented Reality (QAR) patented hybrid technology. Before launch, the company commissioned evaluations of its current hosted infrastructure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The results revealed that AWS offers a superior depth of features for 22 percent less than upgrading the existing cloud services. Within one week, browsAR and QAR were fully implemented within an AWS environment consisting of Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon CloudWatch.

Greplin
Greplin is a personal search engine that seeks to empower users by keeping all their online information from a variety of sites in one convenient location. The site indexes billions of documents using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

Grupo El Comercio
Founded in 1839 as the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Grupo El Comercio has grown into Peru's leading media group while remaining committed to its founding principles. The network, which currently receives around 10 million unique visitors each month, is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon ELB, and Amazon CloudWatch to deliver innovative programming, news, education, and entertainment.

Guardian News & Media
Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the national United Kingdom newspapers The Guardian and The Observer, uses Amazon EC2 for its Apple iPhone application and the Guardian News & Media Content API.

Globus Online
Globus Online is a fast, reliable file transfer service that simplifies the process of secure data movement for the research community. To effectively deliver this service to its rapidly growing base of over 2,600 registered users, the team uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

gumi
Founded in Tokyo in 2007, gumi Inc. is an innovative social gaming company in Japan. The company uses Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS with the Multi-AZ HA option, and Amazon S3 for efficiently running social applications.

HashCube
HashCube is a social gaming company that creates puzzle games on social networks. Games are played online on Facebook and other social networks using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and information is stored using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Holiday Extras
The Holiday Extras website (holidayextras.com) sells airport parking, hotels, travel insurance, and other travel add-ons. In order to deal with seasonal peaks and troughs, and to meet its goal of developing hassle-free customer technology, the company moved their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Amazon ELB and Amazon RDS.

HootSuite
HootSuite is a Web and social media dashboard that helps users spread messages, organize conversations, and track results across multiple social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Social updates from 2 million users are reliably and securely transmitted around the world by utilizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53.

HostedFTP
HostedFTP.com, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement solution for businesses, hosts their file sharing system on Amazon S3 and EC2.

Hotelogix
Hotelogix is a web-based hotel management system developed by HMS Infotech. Hotelogix allows hospitality venues to conduct all of their daily activities, such as reservations and front desk operations, from a unified system that does not require any additional hardware or software expenses. HMS Infotech created Hotelogix's infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

HubWorks!
HubWorks! provides a web-based childcare service used by approximately 800 public and private organizations in Australia. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), HubWorks! is able to scale to meet demand during peak periods, reducing website latency by more than 90% while lowering its monthly hosting fees by 50% compared to its prior hosting solution.

iBay365
Based in China, iBay 365 provides a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that easily integrates with many platforms including eBay and Amazon.com. Using the service, cross-board traders are able to simplify their work flow and improve their level of customer service. Using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon ELB, the company is enabling users to build a standard and effective eBay business.

Ice.com
E-commerce jewelry retailer Ice.com uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary hosting platform for its ecommerce system. Using AWS has helped enable Ice.com to reduce their costs by $250,000 per year over using on-premises solutions.

Imperia & Monferrina
When Italian pasta-machine manufacturers Imperia and Monferrina merged in 2010, they used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host Oracle eBusiness Suite as a single ERP solution for the two organizations. By not investing in traditional infrastructure, the company reduced their capital expenditure by 50%.

Indiagames
Indiagames Ltd. is India's benchmark mobile and online games company and a leading global mobile game publisher. Switching from their own infrastructure to the scalable infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabled the company to reduce time to market for their games from weeks to days, make decisions quickly, and benefit from a variable cost structure.

Informa
Informa is a Swiss-based, multinational company that provides business-to-business knowledge and skills to the publishing, conference, exhibition, and training sectors. Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Informa was able to dramatically reduce the time required to set up its development and test environments.

Informa SAP Migration
Informa, headquartered in Switzerland, offers specialized information-based products, services, and events for businesses, academics, and individuals across the globe. In 2011, the company's Global Technical Operations team in the United Kingdom upgraded its SAP environment. As part of the upgrade process, the team began archiving historic data to Amazon Web Services (AWS). To establish the connection between the SAP environment and AWS, the team uses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), which allows SAP to interact with AWS as it would any traditional server.

Infostrada Sports Group
Infostrada Sports Group (ISG) uses several solutions from Amazon Web Services to handle surges in traffic during major sporting events. AWS helps ISG deliver 320 million sports-statistics widgets to 30 million users while saving 60% over its previous solutions.

InstallFree
GDS integrated InstallFree and Amazon EC2 & Amazon S3 to deliver a virtualized version of GE Centricity along with their custom PAX system to their network of hospitals, doctors, and medical providers to comply with Electronic Medical Records Act.

Investlab
InvestLab provides financial services and products for the global investment market. Using AWS, InvestLab was able to deploy servers in a single day, resulting in faster delivery of market data to customers, and decreased the cost of product development by 40%.

InvisibleHand
InvisibleHand is a browser extension, which helps people save money by discreetly notifying them when the product they are browsing for can be found for a lower price on another site. InvisibleHand uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) almost exclusively for its worldwide services.

Issuu
Issuu is an online publishing service that allows users to upload and share documents by turning standard document types like PDF, Word, and PowerPoint into interactive digital magazines that can be viewed directly in any browser. The company has used numerous Amazon Web Services (including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Route 53) to quickly and efficiently handle any number of uploads and convert them into nice-looking magazines.

Jitscale
Jitscale provides an on-demand, secure, global, and virtualized IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Services are fully managed and cover all parts of the infrastructure— operating system, database clusters, and Web and application servers—under a comprehensive agreement. The Jitscale team uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon CloudFront.

Kehalim
Kehalim, a contextual affiliate platform, turned to Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon Relational Database Service to scale their data storage.

Kingnet Technology
Based in Shanghai, China, Kingnet Technology develops games for worldwide social networks. With an estimated 30 million installations and 6 million daily active users, Kingnet Technology uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to provide its infrastructure capable of handling tremendous volume.

KineticGlue
Srinivas Seshadri CTO, at KineticGlue, explains how the social networking company is using AWS to help their fast-growing business.

Knorex Pte. Ltd.
Knorex Pte. Ltd. is a software development company based in Singapore that specializes in using semantic technologies to help companies utilize their existing resources in more efficient and effective ways through the smarter use of intelligence. The company is using a variety of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Elastic Load Balancing.

Kooaba
Till Quack, CTO of Kooaba AG, shared some insight into their application for the iPhone and Android running on AWS.

KPIT Cummins
KPIT Cummins is global product engineering and IT consulting company that partners with global manufacturing companies to co-create innovative business solutions. By moving its Oracle-based operations to the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS), KPIT Cummins realized significant savings in infrastructure costs and licensing fees.

kununu.com
kununu.com is the largest website for employer reviews posted by employees in the German-speaking countries. The Website uses an Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudFront to increase computing efficiency while reducing costs.

LabSlice
LabSlice uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to help businesses create demos, product evaluations, and training environments. As a service management platform for Amazon EC2, LabSlice enables its customers to increase computing efficiency while significantly decreasing infrastructure costs.

Launchpad6
Launchpad6 is an out-of-the-box solution for creating user-generated video contests. Based in Australia, Launchpad6 services big name clients and needed a highly scalable and reliable infrastructure. The company migrated 100% of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and couldn't be happier. Using Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Route 53, the company has dramatically reduced its costs.

lebrel networks
lebrel networks's DynaMO cloud capacity platform helps mobile network operators improve their own network capacities by managing mobile data usage and reducing overall data volumes. The DynaMO cloud capacity platform is currently using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), which provides the scalability needed to meet the growing data demands of mobile network consumers worldwide. lebrel networks is a new company, but has already attracted attention from network operators around the globe.

LIFEPLAT
LIFEPLAT is a social-network website that connects people through common interests. The company uses Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront to deliver high-speed images to website users while providing reliable and unlimited file storage. It also uses Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon RDS.

Lionsgate
LIONSGATE is a diversified global entertainment corporation that produces feature films and television shows, which they distribute worldwide. The company used Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to reduce costs, increase flexibility, improve security, reduce time to deploy infrastructure, and simplify backup and data recovery procedures.

Lionsgate / Datapipe
LIONSGATE maintains a library of 15,000 motion picture titles while continually releasing new movies and prime-time television programs for a global audience. Since 2010, the company’s diversified and geographically dispersed business units have collaborated using Microsoft SharePoint running in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Live Talkback
Live Talkback is a UK startup seeking to make TV better by connecting audiences to TV shows. The company's infrastructure is hosted almost exclusively on AWS, including Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon CloudWatch.

LiveLeader
LiveLeader estimates that they’ve saved nearly $200,000 by deploying their live chat tool for business on Amazon Web Services.

Livemocha
Livemocha, an online language learning site with free courses in over 25 languages and 3 million users worldwide, chose Amazon SimpleDB to help them store, process and query large datasets. Their online service also makes use of Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, and CloudFront.

LogicStyle
LogicStyle is a Software Architecture consultancy based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It helps customer to apply the best technologies and processes in order to deliver the most cost-effective IT solutions. I am Juliano Viana, principal Software Architect and General Director.

LogMyCalls
LogMyCalls analyzes phone calls and helps customers automate marketing and customer relationship management activities. Using AWS, LogMyCalls saves more than $60,000 a year in infrastructure costs, scales up for short-term spikes in usage, and stores 7 terabytes of customer data.

Loop11
Based in Melbourne Australia, Loop11 is a remote usability testing tool that enables web developers to test the user experience of any website and identify navigational and usability issues quickly and cost effectively. To help ensure optimal scalability, the company uses or plans to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for several components of its architecture, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

LOUD3R
LOUD3R, a real-time content discovery, curation and publishing platform, uses Amazon EC2, SimpleDB, CloudFront, and SQS to semantically search and aggregate news, blogs, photos, videos and social media.

M-Dot
M-Dot has built an entire transaction processing platform on top of AWS. The company utilizes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) XL instances for the database and application servers behind multiple Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB) instances spread across zones in the US-East region, with Amazon CloudWatch for autoscaling within and across zones and a unique backup and logging strategy based on Amazon Simple Storage Service (AmazonS3).

Mahindra Satyam
When Mahindra Satyam needed a way to share and manage documents for one of its clients, a top 3 global pharmaceutical company, it turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a solution. Using various products and services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS delivers a secure, reliable, and effective result.

MarketSimplified
The MarketSimplified mobile platform for the financial industry uses a variety of infrastructure web services, including Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon S3 to enable end-users to access, trade, and manage investments securely and reliably.

McCann Erickson / ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks enabled McCann Erickson to deliver a high profile brand and marketing solution to their client, complete with a full-service, scalable and reliable infrastructure, on a challenging fixed deadline. AWS provided all the infrastructure necessary to host such a site, including Amazon EC2 instances, a database built on Amazon RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, and media content hosting on Amazon S3.

MediaMolecule
MediaMolecule is a game developer based in the U.K. that is now part of Sony Worldwide Studio. The company has released two games, LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2. In order to serve about 1 TB of traffic per day, the company uses several Amazon Web Services (AWS) features, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Elastic IP Addresses.

Mendeley
Mendeley is a cross-platform desktop, iOS (iPhone Operating System), and web application that enables academics and industry researchers worldwide to manage documents and collaborate on research. The company experiences bursts of web site traffic and was looking for a way to cut down on redundant hardware costs. Recently, Mendeley began using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to get the scalability and availability it needed.

Merrifield Garden Center
AWS Consulting Providers, Protera Technologies and Savantis Group, helped Merrifield Garden Center use SAP on the AWS Cloud to reduce costs, improve the stability and security of their applications and data, and eliminate the burden of managing IT infrastructure hardware so they can focus on new customer-facing initiatives to grow their business.

MileSplit
MileSplit is a network of Websites focusing on high school and college sporting events. The company operates completely "in the cloud," with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing all of its server and database needs. Currently, MileSplit is using several services within AWS, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon CloudFront.

Model Metrics
Model Metrics developed the Cloud Converter to support its client Salesforce.com. Cloud Converter is an open source application that automates the migration of applications from on premise platforms to Force.com.

Monografias
This large Latin American community-built content site is entirely run on AWS with tens of thousands of original essays and publications and over 2 Million unique visitors per day. Lea en español.

Morph
Built from the ground up using Amazon Web Services, Morph Labs markets a "full service" deployment, delivery and management system for web applications.

MPS Technologies
As its digital publishing business grew, MPS Technologies began to look for a secure and cost-effective way to grow its infrastructure. By using AWS, MPS is able to implement a high level of security, consistent with its on-premises environment, and the company projects a reduction of $450,000 in capital expenditures over a three-year period.

Napera
Napera built their network security management layer on top of Amazon EC2, allowing them to go to market in under nine months.

Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog is the developer of the Uncharted game franchise, in addition to other notable titles for the Sony PlayStation family of consoles. The company hosts online game components, including multiplayer functionality, with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront. This service stack offers a 90 percent savings over Naughty Dog’s on-premise option, in addition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

Newsweek
Newsweek specializes in print and online news coverage for a wide range of topics, including politics, business, and world events. Since 2009, the publication has reduced operating costs seventy-five percent by employing Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the foundation of its online presence. Newsweek's infrastructure was built using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon CloudFront. Newsweek also uses Amazon Route 53, which saves the publication ninety-three percent in Domain Name System costs.

Nextpoint
Nextpoint provides trial preparation and evidence management for Fortune 100 corporations and Am Law 100 law firms via its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications utilizing the scalability of Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

Nimbus Health
Nimbus Health, a Seattle-based startup, helps doctors and hospitals share medical records with patients in an easy, online, and secure fashion. Nimbus Health uses AWS for application hosting, large scale storage, and load balancing needs.

nuTsie
In this interview, Bob Wise, VP Engineering of Melodeo tells us about nuTsie, an iPhone application they built on AWS.

Nealab Technologies
Nealab Technologies is the developer of application platforms used by popular dating and social networks in Italy. Nealab's application and storage tiers use many features within Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon CloudWatch.

Oasis.com
Adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabled international online dating site Oasis.com to streamline the management of 57 million images, reduce backup costs by half and create a scalable and reliable real-time chat service.

One Hour Translation
One Hour Translation's network of over 10,000 certified translators provides translation and proofreading services in fifty-five languages. The company's production environment is built entirely within Amazon Web Services (AWS), and utilizes many different AWS options, including Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon CloudFront.

Onoko
Onoko develops social and mobile applications for the Facebook and iPhone platforms. The company's apps, which primarily focus on relational gaming, support approximately 15 million global users. Onoko chose to build its infrastructure upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) after experiencing the steep operating costs and limited flexibility of other hosting providers. Today Onoko relies on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudFront.

OpenCrowd
OpenCrowd designs and develops cutting edge Rich Internet Applications, social apps, and cloud-enabled applications for a wide variety of clients. OpenCrowd uses several different Amazon Web Services (AWS) features, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). OpenCrowd credits AWS with helping it to prototype rapidly and cost-effectively in order to meet its clients' needs.

Optensity
Optensity, a start-up company located in Virginia, wanted to create a cloud-based platform that would easily allow data scientists, developers and analysts to create new applications into an executable workflow for large volumes of data. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Optensity was able to launch the AppSymphony cloud platform in its planned timeframe for only $2,400 instead of an estimated $75,000 in on-premises infrastructure costs.

ÓRAMA
ÓRAMA is an Internet-based financial institution that allows Brazilians to participate in premium investment funds that were previously only available to the very wealthy. After carefully considering the security and reliability issues involved with online investing, the company established its entire infrastructure with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Route 53. ÓRAMA’s developers monitor all of these resources with Amazon CloudWatch.

Outback Steakhouse
In 2011, Outback Steakhouse collaborated with Engauge to design a national digital marketing campaign; and Engauge knew the technology would have to be robust and scalable. Using several AWS products, the technology team at Engauge built a custom engagement portal to support Outback’s unprecedented consumer marketing effort to give away one million steak dinners during a 48 - hour period. The campaign was launched nationally through a one-of-a-kind, Outback-tailored advertising roadblock, running on national and cable television stations across the country.

Papaya Mobile
Papaya Mobile is a social network and gaming platform that found a reliable and affordable computing solution with Amazon Web Services (AWS). By using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Papaya Mobile is able to provide its users with instant, affordable, and secure social networking.

Paprika Lab
Paprika Lab is a world-class social gaming developer based in South Korea. A combination of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), has provided Paprika Lab with the flexibility to adapt to varying usage rather than try to predict user patterns.

Peel Technologies
Peel Technologies is a venture-backed startup that provides interactive television app solutions for smart phones and tablets. Using AWS, Peel can develop and deploy new platform features very quickly, without compromising on scalability, reliability, or security.

Peritor
Peritor supports MeinProf, one of the largest online academic community sites in Germany, with AWS implementation supporting large traffic spikes.

photoWALL
The photoWALL team launched their application using all AWS services: Amazon EC2 (with Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, and Elastic Block Store), Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, and the newly released Amazon RDS.

PicTranslator
PicTranslator, recently featured as New and Noteworthy on the App Store, uses AWS to scale their highly CPU-intensive workflows.

Ping.sg
Ping.sg, a Singapore-based blogging community and blog aggregator with more than 100,000 blogs, moved its application to the cloud, running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.

PIXNET
PIXNET Digital Media Corporation is a Taiwan-based company that provides a social network Website, online photo gallery, and blogging service for the Greater China region. PIXNET first began using Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for basic backups and log files. The company then integrated Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to process images using the face detection and recognition feature it recently added to its online photo gallery. PIXNET reports that it is able to bring its services to market quickly and more cost-effectively since incorporating AWS.

PlaceIQ
PlaceIQ, a location-based intelligence company in New York City, provides location intelligence for mobile advertising. The company uses Amazon ElastiCache and AWS to improve its web service response time by 83%.

PostRank
As a young, bootstrapped company, the founders of PostRank architected their new service to take advantage of the AWS cloud computing platform. "Without EC2, the project would have been impossible.”

Praekelt Foundation
Praekelt Foundation develops mobile technology solutions for social good. The Foundation has recently migrated most of its core products and tools to Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to host one of its portals. The result has been highly successful in providing critical information and medical appointment reminders, via cell phone, to people in Africa living with HIV/AIDS.

QlikTech
QlikTech wanted to create a cloud-based marketplace to highlight its partners and the products and services available for QlikTech’s business discovery platform. Working with Model Metrics, an Advanced Consulting Partner member of the AWS Partner Network, QlikTech created a scalable and secure solution for more than 1400 partners.

Queue-it
Queue-it protects its customers from Website crashes during periods of high volume by putting the users into a virtual queuing system. The Danish company uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudFront to ensure that its customer base has 24/7/365 availability and scalability.

Ramco
Ramco Systems provides cloud-based enterprise solutions to more than 150,000 users in over 35 countries. By leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ramco is able to improve server-provisioning time for customers by more than 80%, while reducing both its capital and operating expenditures by more than 40% compared to its on-premises data center.

Raven
Running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, Raven is an online software platform that helps marketers quickly research, manage, monitor, and report on search engine optimization (SEO), email, social media, and other Internet marketing campaigns.

Reasoning
Nitin Padmawar, CTO at Reasoning, explains how the digital commerce company is using AWS to help their fast-growing business:

Recorded Future
Recorded Future is a software company that seeks to unlock the predictive power of the web. They specialize in reviewing hundreds of thousands of news outlets, social media sites and government web pages each hour in an effort to record all that the world knows about the future.

reddit
Social news site reddit, based in San Francisco, provides an online platform, reddit.com, to post and vote on content. By running on AWS, reddit can scale its platform to support 4 billion page views per month, and was able to quickly double server capacity in minutes for President Obama’s live Q&A session in 2012.

Red Lion Hotels
Red Lion Hotels Corporation is about to launch a set of web and mobile platforms that will provide hyper-localized research and booking experiences for travelers. AWS Solutions Provider 2nd Watch is helping Red Lion migrate from a co-location facility in order to develop the new platforms on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, and Amazon CloudFront.

RedBubble
RedBubble is an online community, marketplace, and print-on-demand service for creative individuals around the world. RedBubble combines Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to operate its own image storage and processing application, Imagehaus.

redBus
redBus, an Indian company providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) application for bus operators in addition to selling bus tickets on its own and third-party websites, migrated its operations completely to AWS. The company uses Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon CloudWatch.

Rent Jungle
Rent Jungle is a search engine for apartment listings. The core of its technology is its advanced spidering engine, which is hosted entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rent Jungle's application uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, as well as Amazon Mechanical Turk for human evaluation of apartment listings.

Ripplex
Ripplex Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, has built a unique web service named Webpo, a greeting card printing web service built on AWS.

Roambi
Quinton Alsbury, Co-Founder of Mellmo, explains their new iPhone application, Roambi, and how they launched it on AWS.

Roamz
The Roamz app uses social media activity to find out what’s going on at the places around you. The app runs a distributed application within Amazon EC2, in addition to utilizing Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53. With this flexible collection of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Roamz avoided purchasing $100,000 of storage infrastructure and got started in hours.

rPath
rPath saves $80,000 by migrating 7,000 software appliance images from rBuilder Online to Amazon S3.

RunE2E / Kenneth Cole
RunE2E provides integrated technology solutions to its clients in the areas of IT consulting, contingent workforce, and technology solutions. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), RunE2E completed a Proof of Concept (POC) to validate the installation of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 toolset for its client, Kenneth Cole Productions. AWS technology enabled the company to complete the POC within three weeks and keep the total infrastructure and system cost to less than $500.

Junta de Extremadura and Sadiel
Sadiel provides consulting services, information technology, and outsourcing to companies in the public sector, and the energy, industry, financial, media, and telecommunications markets. Recently, the company recommended that its client take part in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) proof of concept (POC), which included several AWS solutions: Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Identity and Access Management (Amazon IAM), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Sage Software
The Professional Services team at Sage Software in Germany often spent hours configuring local virtual machines before meeting with customers. Sage Software used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a cloud infrastructure that saves the team an estimated 500 hours per year of server configuration time, resulting in faster access to their training and consulting systems.

sambaash
Singapore-based sambaash manages emerging cloud-based online communities. sambaash uses AWS for development, build management, source-code management, testing, deployment, and production sites, utilizing Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3.

SAP
SAP is a leading provider of enterprise software, handling 60% of the world’s GDP. Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can deploy the full range of SAP software in the AWS Cloud to solve business problems without worrying about infrastructure.

Schneider Electric
In 2011, the international energy management company, Schneider Electric, decided to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) into its existing IT environment as a way to test the benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The company, in combination with consulting firm Edifixio, began by establishing fifteen Internet and Intranet legacy applications on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With this initial migration successfully completed, Schneider Electric now plans to expand its AWS infrastructure to include additional applications and business units.

Scube NewMedia and UniCredit
UniCredit, an international financial institute, recently commissioned ICT company Scube NewMedia to create a geospatial application. The application's underlying framework incorporates a variety of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3). UniCredit's application is available throughout Italy and will soon be extended to most of Central and Eastern Europe.

Seven Bridges Genomics
Seven Bridges Genomics uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide researchers with IGOR, a cloud platform that helps them analyze DNA sequencing data. Using AWS has helped enable Seven Bridges to provide their customers with complex genetics analysis at a large scale and at low cost—typically saving researchers 40% compared to in-house solutions.

Shutl
Shutl, a United Kingdom start-up, helps retailers offer deliveries in ninety minutes or within a specified one hour timeframe. The Shutl web service API is built on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure that includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Elastic IP.  Shutl chose AWS as its cloud services provider based on cost-effectiveness and flexibility, as well as the strong reputation and ability of AWS to meet European Union privacy regulations.

Silver Style

German game developer Silver Style Studios uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help provide worldwide availability and 99% uptime to users of its multiplayer online game, The Dark Eye—Herokon Online. Silver Style designed the game to run on the AWS Cloud, eliminating new hardware expenses and lowering operational costs.

Site24x7

Site24x7 is a website and web application monitoring service that helps businesses ensure high performance and uptime for websites and business services.  Using AWS, Site24x7 maintains over 32 monitoring locations worldwide.  Seeking greater scalability, Site24x7 is currently moving as much of its work load as possible to the Amazon Web Services Cloud.

Skifta
Skifta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has chosen AWS as their hosting provider. Skifta, a free service that allows consumers to shift media from the network it is stored on and access it in other locations, may not have been possible without AWS.

Smartsheet
To accommodate their growing business, Smartsheet, a web-based solution for managing tasks, projects and processes, turns to Amazon S3 and CloudFront for document storage and delivery. They have also created an easy point-and-click interface to access Amazon's Mechanical Turk on-demand workforce.

Smowtion
Smowtion specializes in the ad-network business, focusing on developing products and solutions for the online advertising industry, and targeting quality audiences. The company uses several AWS services, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon SQS for a variety of needs.

SmugMug
SmugMug, a premium online photo and video sharing service, migrated to the cloud starting with Amazon S3 for storage and now runs almost 100% on AWS. By running on the AWS Cloud, SmugMug can deliver a better performing service to its millions of customers.

SOASTA
SOASTA’s CloudTest solution on AWS enabled Intuit to do massive spike testing scenarios as Intuit prepared its TurboTax program to support over 18 million online tax preparers during the peak of tax season.

Socialcam
Socialcam, creators of an iPhone and Android application for taking and sharing videos with friends, launched a successful Facebook campaign that led to a rapid increase in users. After its physical servers couldn’t support high levels of usage, Socialcam switched to AWS, enabling the company to scale to support demand.

Sorenson Media
The Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network service is architected entirely on top of Amazon Web Services—including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. "Our engineering team looked extensively at infrastructure and CDN solutions from a scalability, cost and API standpoint — and Amazon was the clear choice for us."

Sparefoot
SpareFoot.com helps self-storage facilities market their extra space, and helps consumers make educated decisions on which storage unit is best for their needs. In order to manage a network of consumer facing sites, the company uses several AWS products—including Amazon RDS, Amazon ELB, Amazon S3, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon CloudFront—to create a stable system and reduce time, costs, and labor.

SPIEGEL.TV
schnee von morgen webTV GmbH offers a wide range of TV services, including consulting, project management, content management, video transcoding, video delivery, statistics, broadcast archive systems, and storage. To reduce costs and increase scalability, the company uses a variety of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Splunk
Splunk Inc., based in San Francisco, California, provides software that offers companies a easy, fast and resilient way to collect, analyze and secure the massive streams of machine data generated by IT systems and technology infrastructure. Splunk uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Splunk Storm, which delivers the power of Splunk as an elastic cloud service. AWS has made innovation more accessible for Splunk, speeding time to development and lessening hardware costs.

StarPound
StarPound Technologies, an enterprise software company, deployed their business process management and telephony platforms on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Summa Technologies / CPqD
Summa Technologies do Brasil is a consulting company focused on providing enterprise solutions based in Java and open source frameworks. The company recently worked with one of its customers to complete a Proof of Concept (POC) that assesses the viability of deploying an unmodified application to the Amazon Cloud, and then evaluating the level of cloud features an existing application benefits from.

SundaySky
SundaySky uses Amazon S3, EC2, CloudFront, SimpleDB, SQS, RDS, Mechanical Turk and Elastic Load Balancing to enable customers to create automatic, high-quality online product videos.

Suunto & Movescount.com
Suunto is a Finland-based company that designs and manufactures precision instruments for sports enthusiasts. The company stepped into new era when they launched Movescount.com, a sports and fitness Website that uses Amazon S3 to store fitness information.

Synectics ARTMS
Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. is a total-solution IT provider that offers federal and state government agencies, non-profits, and commercial clients a full range of planning, design, development, and operational support services. They use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement a Java and Oracle-based tracking system used by federal agencies as an element of their software-as-a-service offering.

Synectics FOIA
Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. is a total-solution IT provider that offers federal and state government agencies, non-profits, and commercial clients a full range of planning, design, development, and operational support services. They use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement a multi-user Microsoft Access™ based tracking system that was designed to support users involved in Freedom of Information Act administration at federal agencies.

tadaa
The menschmaschine Publishing product tadaa is an iPhone camera app featuring high-definition photo effects and editing tools. The app's developers at menschmaschine Publishing GmbH deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple regions to support 500,000 new users in less than one week.

Tal.ki
Tal.ki, a service that enables users to create and embed a forum in an existing Web site, runs 100% on AWS, with Amazon EC2 powering its servers, databases, load balancers, search indexing, staging, and other services.

Talkbox Limited
TalkBox Limited is the creator of a multi-platform mobile application called TalkBox Voice, which is currently serving over 6 million registered users worldwide. The company, which is based in Hong Kong, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle its highly unpredictable traffic for scaling capacity and high reliability. The company is specifically using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

Tapjoy
Tapjoy partners with leading Apple iPhone and Android publishers to help monetize their virtual goods and improve their distribution, relying on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, and Amazon SQS to run its application.

TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd
TCL Communication wanted to introduce a new firmware update service, FOTA, to allow mobile phone users in more than 100 countries to upgrade their phones using the Internet. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), the China-based company is able to deliver FOTA to customers at near 100 percent availability, and at a cost estimated at 10 times less than a traditional data center.

Techout.com
Amazon EC2 allows Techout to horizontally scale virtual monitoring instances with speed and at low cost whenever and wherever they're needed around the world.

Telelok

Telelok is a pioneer in office furniture rental in Brazil. The company sought a solution to improve its server performance, gain scalability, and operate without physical equipment’s limitations. Amazon Web Services (AWS) products are now used to virtualize the company’s Microsiga ERP servers and website, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is used for backups.

TellApart
TellApart provides marketing tools that help online retailers identify their best customers and prospects and send individualized marketing messages to those customers. The company's world-class engineering team has built a real-time ad bidding engine that leverages a suite of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products.

Thomson Reuters
Business data provider Thomson Reuters initiated a strategy to consolidate several webcasting technologies into one global platform. Working with solutions provider id3as, Thomson Reuters used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a multiple Availability Zones approach that freed the new platform from capacity limitations while reducing operating costs by 40%–50%.

TicketLeap
TicketLeap, an online ticketing platform used by thousands of event organizers across the US and Canada, runs entirely on AWS. TicketLeap uses Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and cloud monitoring services as the foundation for its platform.

TinyCo
TinyCo moved to Amazon Web Services (AWS) after outgrowing its first cloud service provider. With the AWS Cloud, TinyCo is able to manage 20 billion requests and deliver 400 TB of content to customers per month, while focusing on game development instead of managing infrastructure.

Tomlinson Real Estate Group
Tomlinson Real Estate Group, a subsidiary of Coldwell Banker, initiated a plan to improve both its responsiveness and overall customer experience. To facilitate these goals, the company migrated from a co-location facility to AWS where it streamlined its systems using Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon S3. Since the transition, Tomlinson has seen a 47 percent reduction in operating costs and freed itself from a five MBPS data transfer limit.

Transaction Wireless

Transaction Wireless offers a multi-channel digital gift card and marketing platform to help retailers transform their traditional gift card business to engage with digital consumers through mobile, social and online storefronts.  The company uses a number of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide a highly secure and scalable gifting platform. 

Trendsmap.com
Trendsmap.com displays real-time mapping of word trends on Twitter. The Website is a product of Stateless Systems, a Melbourne, Australia-based Web workshop. Stateless Systems created Trendsmap.com upon Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Within Amazon EC2, the Website uses many different features, including Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Spot Instances, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), and Elastic IP addresses.

TriSys
TriSys Business Software supplies recruiting software and hosting systems to recruitment companies, employing Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to host and manage its customers' data and business services. The AWS SDK for .NET supports the TriSys ASP application, which is based on Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (C# and Microsoft Visual Basic.NET).

TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a personal dashboard, providing a powerful interface over Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other online presences while also providing tools to organize and filter real-time information with ease. TweetDeck's application is deployed on Amazon EC2, using Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling, along with Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3.

Twiitch
Twiitch is a mobile and social gaming start-up based in Melbourne, Australia. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped Twiitch see an average 75% reduction in computing costs while supporting over 600,000 players in real-time.

Ubisoft
Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, publishes console, online and mobile games. The company selected the AWS Cloud to support its social game development and successfully launch 10 games in 18 months.

Unfuddle
Unfuddle is now using Amazon EC2 and S3 for virtually 100% of its infrastructure, including web and database servers. Unfuddle makes extensive use of EBS volumes and snapshots which has completely transformed their backup process.

Urbanspoon
Adam Doppelt, co-founder of Urbanspoon, explains how they use Amazon S3, EC2 and CloudFront to power their popular iPhone application.

Urmystar
Urmystar provides television advertising solutions, using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront to deliver advertising assets to its "hyper local" networks of Internet-connected television sets.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BioSense program tracks public health problems to better prepare for and coordinate responses to safeguard the wellbeing of the American people. The CDC recently re-launched BioSense 2.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in AWS GovCloud (US) and other Regions using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SES. With AWS, the CDC can better share important health information among public health professionals and with partners in state and local governments while avoiding costly investments in hardware.

UST Global
UST Global is an end-to-end IT services and solutions provider for industry-leading organizations in eighteen different countries. UST Global implements its own projects using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The company also turns to AWS to fulfill client requests, such as the business intelligence web application it recently created for Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting company.

United States Tennis Association (USTA)
The United States Tennis Association's (USTA) regional offices rely on the Citrix desktop virtualization solution for all of their business applications. The USTA's IT department was recently tasked with migrating the entire Citrix system from an aging datacenter to a more flexible hosting environment. The IT department chose Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), as the foundation for the new Citrix infrastructure. The USTA reports that its desktop system is showing marked performance improvements since moving to AWS.

uSwitch.com
uSwitch.com is a leading price and energy comparison Website in the UK. The site helps consumers find the best price and service from a variety of suppliers, and ultimately makes it easy for consumers to switch suppliers. The website is deployed using a range of AWS Services: Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront.

Validus
Validus, a UK-based insurance claims service, migrated to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that enables them to launch additional Software as a Service (SaaS) products while pursuing global expansion. By migrating to AWS, Validus has cut its three-year cost projections by 50 percent and lowered capital expenditure by £200,000.

VMLogix
VMLogix and AWS enables $80,000 cost savings and 1500 hours reduction of set up time for virtual lab environments at Rochester Institute of Technology.

VSC Technologies / Voyages-sncf.com
VSC Technologies is a subsidiary of the French National Railway Corporation (SNCF) under the SNCF online travel agency, Voyages-sncf.com, which handles long-distance and high-speed passenger services. Based near Paris and employing more than 170 people, VSC offers complete technology solutions and services for the railway distribution needs of its customers and hosts critical applications for railway reservations.

Vserv Mobi
Vserv Digital Services is a pioneer in mobile in-app, full screen ads and serves over 6 billion ad requests per month. With AWS, the company has taken advantage of a cloud architecture to reduce costs and improve its services. Vserv currently uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon CloudFront in Singapore and the US East region.

WeBuzz Limited
WeBuzz Limited develops Facebook application tools that aid companies and organizations in building awareness around their Facebook pages. The entire WeBuzz website runs on AWS and uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to deliver high-end results for users.

Wooga
Wooga, a social and mobile gaming company that attracts approximately 40 million users worldwide per month, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host one of Facebook’s most popular games, Monster World. Two million users play Monster World each day, generating up to 15,000 requests per second at peak times.

Worksoft / Grid Robotics
Worksoft provides comprehensive solutions to automate lifecycle management for enterprise applications. Recently, the company began using Cloud Lab Classroom and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to pilot a successful and cost effective online training program.

Worldreader
Worldreader, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing books to children in developing parts of the world, teamed up with internationally acclaimed soccer team FC Barcelona to help raise enough money by December 31, 2012 to send 1 million e-books to boys and girls in Africa. Given the importance of the cause and popularity of FC Barcelona, Worldreader knew that they needed a world-class website to handle the increase in traffic. Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Transcend Computing, Worldreader had its site up and running in only three days without having to sacrifice valuable donations to make a large upfront investment in costly infrastructure.

Wowza
Wowza teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Wowza Media Server Pro on Amazon EC2 as self-managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Xignite
Xignite employs Amazon EC2 and S3 to deliver financial market data to enterprise applications, portals, and websites for clients such as Forbes, Citi, ING, kaChing, and Starbucks.

Zen Engineering Network Inc.
Zen Engineering Network Inc. provides network systems design, integration, and management services for a wide variety of progressive organizations. Zen uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for both its own corporate IT needs and the cloud computing needs of its clients

Zenga Media
With over 200 employees in five locations across the globe, Zenga Media offers TV, games, and news. To maintain scalability and flexibility, lower costs, and reduce time to ROI, the company uses several AWS solutions, including Amazon EC), Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront.

Amazon.com
Amazon.com’s Customer Experience Analytics Team uses Amazon Relational Database Service to store and query customer simulation data.

Amazon.com Oracle RMAN Backups
Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer. In 2011, Amazon.com switched from tape backup to using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for backing up the majority of its Oracle databases. This strategy reduces complexity and capital expenditures, provides faster backup and restore performance, eliminates tape capacity planning for backup and archive, and frees up administrative staff for higher value operations. They were able to replace their backup tape infrastructure with Cloud-based Amazon S3 storage, eliminate backup software, and experienced a 12X performance improvement, reducing restore time from around 15 hours to 2.5 hours in select scenarios.

Backupify
Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enabled Backupify to tap into the data-storage market for Software as a Service applications like Google Apps, freeing them from costly hardware investment and ongoing IT maintenance costs. Backupify estimates that they have saved nearly one million dollars in capital and staffing costs by using AWS instead of purchasing and managing their own servers and storage.

CloudBerry Lab
CampusLIVE at the University of Massachusetts uses CloudBerry Lab solutions on Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon CloudFront to serve millions of static images.

Douglas County
Douglas County is Nebraska’s most populous county with approximately 500,000 residents. The county’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department provides government agencies and the public with municipal data related to zoning, property boundaries, political boundaries, utilities, infrastructure, and public safety. Douglas County relies on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to distribute this information through the county’s website and online applications.

ElephantDrive
ElephantDrive turns to Amazon S3 to store client data, expanding their total amount of storage by nearly 20 percent each week while avoiding increased capital expenses.

Ericsson
Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The company uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform for provisioning and auto-scale functionality, as well as hosting in multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations with failover between installations, partly based on RightScale features.

Galata Chemicals
Galata Chemicals, an additives producer based in Connecticut, wanted to lower IT costs while maintaining a disaster recovery solution for their SAP ERP system. Galata worked with Protera Technologies to move Galata’s disaster recovery solution to AWS, saving time and reducing operational costs by approximately 70% when compared to an on-premises solution.

Glympse
Glympse provides an innovative mobile service that makes it easy to safely share one’s location with others in real-time. With just a few taps, iPhone™, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone™ users can send a Glympse to anyone via email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter. An AWS customer since 2008, Glympse now uses AWS Storage Gateway for easy data backup and recovery in the cloud.

Haven Power
Haven Power is taking advantage of the lower costs and increased flexibility of cloud computing with disaster recovery in AWS.

Hitachi Systems
Hitachi Systems & Services, a member of the Hitachi Group, has turned to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to address their growing storage demands for their new, first of its kind in Japan, mobile service “Mobile Broadcast Solution.”

Indianapolis 500
Indy500.com stores more than 100,000 images using Amazon S3, and they use Amazon EC2 to host and stream live motor sport races to over 3.1 million visitors.

Ipswitch
Ipswitch enhances their messaging solution for small to mid-sized businesses by partnering with Sonian to provide a hosted archiving solution built on AWS and delivered seamlessly to end users.

Jungle Disk
Jungle Disk develops and launches a simple, pay-as-you-go online data backup service in less than 30 days using Amazon S3.

MediaSilo
MediaSilo integrates Amazon S3 to offer readily expandable storage to its subscribers at a much lower price.

Moonwalk
Moonwalk for Amazon S3 automates and intelligently manages the migration of unstructured data from Windows, Netware, OES2, Red Hat, Suse and NetApp File Servers to Amazon S3.

NASDAQ FinQloud
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the inventor of the electronic exchange, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the basis for FinQloud, a cloud computing solution specific to the financial services industry. FinQloud enables clients to store, manage and process large amounts of data cost-effectively while also helping them meet regulatory requirements.

NASDAQ OMX
NASDAQ OMX is the largest exchange company in the world and currently owns and operates 24 markets, three clearing houses and five central securities spanning six continents. Their technology powers 70 exchanges in 50 countries. The company’s Global Data Products division uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store data used by its Market Replay and Data-On-Demand products, applications that allows customers to quickly access historical stock price information through a front end application and raw files.

NEWLOG Consulting
NEWLOG Consulting, an Italian-based consulting firm, wanted a cost-effective alternative to its on-site environment and manual backup operations. By using the AWS Storage Gateway, NEWLOG was able to implement backup and disaster recovery solutions to protect and store critical data while saving approximately 30 percent in infrastructure costs over a three-year period.

Oyster.com
Hotel review site Oyster.com was already using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store more than one million photos when the company decided to use AWS to upgrade its in-house image processing system. This move helped the company save nearly $20,000 in capital and operating expenses while reducing its image processing workload by 95%.

Parse
Parse provides cloud-based back-end services for mobile application developers. By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Parse was able to take advantage of Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes for I/O intensive workloads and reduce end-to-end latency considerably.

PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Sage

Sage Manufacturing needed to develop a disaster recovery system and testing environment for its in-house infrastructure. The fly fishing equipment manufacturer wanted to avoid the high costs of adding physical hardware, so it asked database administration providers Blue Gecko to create an economic alternative. Blue Gecko’s solutions use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and AWS Import/Export. Today, Sage’s disaster recovery and testing environment integrate seamlessly with the manufacturer’s physical infrastructure, while reducing IT overhead and increasing availability.

Shaw Media
Shaw Media uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve uptime for its high-traffic websites to over 99.9%. Furthermore, using AWS to implement a disaster recovery strategy saves the estimated $1.8 million that it would cost for a second physical site.

Shine Technologies
Shine Technologies in Melbourne, Australia, searched for a cloud environment capable of supporting its Oracle-based billing applications. Shine took advantage of Amazon RDS for Oracle Database and Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS to move its 10-year-old database to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and reduce processing time for certain primary processes from 96 to 24 hours.

Sogeti
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the foundation for Sogeti's cost-effective disaster recovery plan, which offers clients three convenient service-level options. The consulting company's disaster recovery infrastructure integrates Oracle Data Guard with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and the Amazon Elastic IP feature. Since introducing this new DR plan, Sogeti and its clients are able to distribute more of their IT budgets to primary database concerns and less to backup and recovery requirements.

Sonian
Sonian discovers that Amazon Web Services delivers the services, price points, and sustained-business viability required to build a robust enterprise archive infrastructure.

Spotify
Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service which offers its users instant access to more than 16 million songs. The company uses AWS to store its vast repository of music, which provides scalable capacity for past hits, current favorites—and the soundtrack of tomorrow.

TeamEXtension
Summary: TeamEXtension provides Java development and maintenance services to companies that wish to avoid the cost of maintaining an in-house development staff. Using Amazon S3, the company created an off-site backup system for its database.

Toshiba Medical
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation provides solutions that support the entire workflow at healthcare facilities and are a global provider of manufacturing, sales and technical services for medical equipment as well as diagnostic imaging systems. Toshiba Medical Systems uses the AWS cloud as its disaster recovery solution to backup and store critical medical image data in compliance with Japanese regulations.

Torrent Technologies
TorrentFlood® is a processing platform for the flood insurance industry. Although Torrent Technologies designed the platform to be compatible with hosted services, it ran on physical hardware from 2006 until exponential growth in 2012 prompted a shift to the cloud. With the help of solutions provider 2nd Watch, Torrent has developed a disaster recovery system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows Server, .NET, and SQL Server.

Vembu
Vembu Technologies, using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic Block Storage infrastructure, offers the Vembu Pro online backup and cloud storage services for SMBs through its channel partners who are Managed Service Providers and Value Added Resellers.

Viskase
Viskase, a worldwide supplier of casing solutions for the food industry, collaborated with Protera Technologies to implement an SAP disaster recovery solution. With a 24-hour, 7-day worldwide operation, Viskase needed a solution that would have limited downtime with reasonable costs. Viskase realized a 1 hour restore time and anticipates a 50% cost savings running the disaster recovery solution on the AWS Cloud.

Washington Trust Bank
Washington Trust Bank and AWS Advanced Consulting Provider IT-Lifeline use the AWS cloud to cut disaster recovery costs, reduce overhead, and improve recovery time in a compliance-driven industry.

What's Up Interactive
The digital marketing agency What's Up Interactive provides managed hosting for highavailability websites. The agency wanted to expand this service to include affordable backup and disaster recovery (DR). Rather than spending over $1 million building and maintaining a secondary site, the agency leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) to extend its existing infrastructure. What's Up Interactive is offering budget-conscious backup and DR anchored by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year. They are also taking advantage of the EU Region to achieve multi-continent geographic distribution.

WebServius
WebServius is a technology startup company that provides data vendors with an efficient and versatile data monetization solution to reach new data buyers. Amazon SimpleDB is the storage mechanism and query engine that enables WebServius to meet its goals.

Yelp
Yelp is a popular consumer review Website that uses Amazon S3 to store log files growing at 100GB per day and Amazon Elastic MapReduce to power approximately 20 separate batch scripts processing those logs, with s3cmd and the Ruby Elastic MapReduce utility for monitoring.

Zmanda
Zmanda delivers an enterprise-grade backup service featuring an easy-to-use sign up and payment process using Amazon S3 and Amazon DevPay.

aiCache
aiCache teams with Woot.com to maintain high performance levels during traffic spikes

Earth Networks and CloudFront
Earth Networks uses Amazon CloudFront’s dynamic content features to provide high-performing content to users of their WeatherBug branded products that include mobile apps, the desktop app, and the website www.weatherbug.com. With Amazon CloudFront, Earth Networks saved over 50% in CDN costs and anticipates 20% reduction in Amazon EC2 origin instances, without any reduction in performance compared to their previous CDN provider and without the need to write any customized code.

EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is the enterprise PostgreSQL and open source database company, offering productized distributions of the PostgreSQL database. EnterpriseDB serves its downloads using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. EnterpriseDB also uses Amazon EC2 for testing and development.

Grupo Santillana
Grupo Santillana is one of the main educational publishers in Spain and Latin America, selling 120 million books per year. The company recently launched a business model called Sistema Uno Internacional, with the objective of leveraging the use of their educational content among schools. To support this project, the development team has used Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to go live within a short timeframe, ensure scaling as the project grows, and stay within a defined budget.

HyperStratus
HyperStratus teams with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation to support AWS cloud-based content management serving 13,000 teachers in the Silicon Valley area.

IMDb
The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) is one of the world’s most popular and authoritative sources for movie, TV and celebrity content with more than 100 million unique visitors per month. IMDb uses Amazon CloudFront to host search data for the IMDb magic search feature, finding the movie or person you're looking for in just a few key presses. In the mobile space, every millisecond is precious. Mobile customers especially love getting right to the movie they want without having to type a full search query. CloudFront makes this experience the fastest possible by distributing the content physically close to IMDb's worldwide user base.

July Systems
In order to support their large media, sports, business, and entertainment clients, and deliver real-time content, July Systems migrated to AWS. Now, all their systems run on Amazon EC2.

Linden Lab
Linden Lab, the maker of Second Life delivers content and their software download to users via Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3. Objects that are downloaded frequently are delivered from CloudFront, those less frequently accessed are delivered through Amazon S3.

Movinary
Customers use the video development service movinary to create, share, and store text-enhanced videos from photos. Using AWS enabled movinary to start small and scale fast, going from a local environment to production in one month.

Shire Pharmaceuticals
Shire Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company with major operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland, that employs 5,000 people in 29 countries. By working with RunE2E, a member of the AWS Partner Network, Shire found that it could provision SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence software in the AWS Cloud in less time than using its on-premises infrastructure, and without loss of performance.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Program for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was able to leverage the AWS cloud to rapidly provision capacity and successfully deliver engaging experiences of missions to Mars to fans around the world.

Casa & Video
The Brazilian IT company Concrete Solutions uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to optimize Casa & Video's ecommerce infrastructure. Because Casa & Video is one of Brazil's largest providers of electronics and home products, its infrastructure must be versatile enough to handle large traffic spikes during the holiday shopping season, while also supporting an immense inventory and supply chain. Today, Casa & Video's ecommerce platform incorporates Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses, and Amazon CloudWatch.

Net Applications
Net Applications gains a competitive edge over other Web analytics solutions by using Alexa Web Information Service to deliver in-depth Web traffic information.

The Talk Market
The Talk Market uses Amazon Flexible Payments Service to power their credit card processing pipeline.

Atbrox
After creating software that helps individuals with dyslexia, Lingit turned to Atbrox, a Norwegian-based company focusing on data mining/data analysis and cloud-based solutions, to assist with up to terabyte-sized structured sets of texts.

Bankinter
Bankinter, a leading provider of online banking services in Spain, uses AWS as an integral part of their credit-risk simulation application. The application uses complex algorithms to perform 5,000,000 simulations. By using AWS, Bankinter was able to reduce the average time-to-solution from 23 hours to 20 minutes.

Bioproximity
Bioproximity provides proteomic analytical services for pharmaceutical companies and academic organizations. The company uses Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to run its complex analysis processes and search algorithms.

Chalklabs
ChalkLabs is a startup company that specializes in high-performance computing, data mining, and visualization solutions for large-scale data problems. The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS to meet their BigData challenges.

Cycle Computing
Cycle Computing supports Varian’s use of hundreds of cores on AWS in building scientific instruments.

Cyclopic Energy
Cyclopic Energy offers consulting services that optimize wind power installations. The company relies on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run its wind simulations, which requires an abundance of computing capacity. Cyclopic Energy also uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store the results of its simulation analyses.

Etsy
As a Web site where individuals can sell handmade, vintage items, and craft supplies, Etsy.com provides a market for creative members to sell their items online. Etsy uses Amazon Elastic MapReduce for web log analysis and recommendation algorithms.

Fliptop
Fliptop helps brands convert their e-mail lists into social profiles. The company uses numerous solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic MapReduce with Spot Instances, enabling them to quickly and cost-effectively scale their capacity for agency and corporate clients to millions of contact lookups per day.

foursquare
foursquare Labs, Inc., is a location-based social network in which its more than 10 million users check in via a smartphone app or SMS to exchange travel tips and to share their location with friends. By checking in frequently, users earn points and virtual badges. To perform analytics across more than 5 million daily check-ins, foursquare uses Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon S3, and open-source technologies Mongodb and Apache Flume. By taking advantage of new Amazon EC2 price reductions and using a combination of On-Demand and Reserved Instances, foursquare saves 53% in costs over self-hosting while maintaining their scalability needs.

Fraunhofer ITWM
Fraunhofer Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM) integrated Amazon Web Services (AWS) into their high-performance middleware PHASTGrid. Using PHASTGrid, which is implemented in C++ with Ruby bindings to access AWS, the ITWM team currently offers services to the financial industry on Amazon EC2.

Green Button
Green Button, a New Zealand-based team focused on high performance computing, uses Amazon Web Services to drive computationally intensive workloads for a variety of organizations from the life sciences, to oil and gas.

Harvard Medical School
The Laboratory for Personalized Medicine (LPM), of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School took the power of high throughput sequencing and biomedical data collection technologies and the flexibility of Amazon Web Services to develop innovative whole genome analysis testing models in record time.

Illumina
Illumina, a San Diego, California-based leading provider of DNA sequencing instruments, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable researchers to process and store massive amounts of data in the AWS Cloud. AWS offers the scalability and power in a secure environment that Illumina needs to help researchers collaborate while sequencing and analyzing large amounts of data.

InhibOx
InhibOx delivers Scopius, the world’s largest virtual library of modeled drug candidates, as well as systems to build custom versions for customers and proprietary searching technologies to researchers in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical sectors. The company, which also performs contract drug discovery research, requires a high level of security and computing power for its operations. To meet these requirements, to keep data secure, and to save costs, InhibOx uses Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Import/Export.

Integrated Proteomics Applications
Integrated Proteomics Applications (IPA) created a new cloud service to complement its existing data analysis software, Integrated Proteomics Pipeline (IP2). The service transforms customized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), Amazon EC2, and Amazon S3 into a cost-effective computation and storage alternative for proteomics research. When paired with IP2, the cloud service completed analysis within a few hours, instead of a few days as required by a desktop computer.

Ion Flux, Inc.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is an important component in Ion Flux, Inc.’s genome analysis services. Ion Flux also uses several other solutions from Amazon Web Services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Amazon SWF
Amazon SWF is a key computing technology that drives several applications that process and reliably archive huge volumes of space and earth science data at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). With Amazon SWF, mission critical applications that previously took months to develop, test and deploy, now take days.

Lingotek
Lingotek | The Translation Network provides the world’s first Collaborative Translation Platform that helps businesses and government agencies conduct faster, consistent, lower-cost translations into more than 100 languages. After a five month trial, the company migrated its home-grown IaaS to AWS where it utilizes Amazon EC2 with Amazon EBS, Elastic IP addresses, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, and AWS IAM. The company also augments AWS’s functionality with an assortment of compatible third-party applications.

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses Amazon’s cluster compute environment to process high resolution satellite images that provide guidance and situational awareness to its robots. To streamline processing, JPL relies on Amazon Cluster Compute Cloud Instances and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to deploy massive computations with less effort.

National Taiwan University
Fast Crypto Lab is a research group within National Taiwan University, whose activities focus on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms to solve important mathematical problems, as well as the development and implementation of these algorithms on massively parallel computers. To meet their computational needs, the group uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Cluster GPU Instances, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudWatch.

Numerate Finds a Winning Combination with AWS
Numerate is a Bay Area biotechnology platform company focused on making the drug design process more data-driven, efficient, and predictable. The company has incorporated Amazon EC2 as a production computational cluster and Amazon S3 for cache storage. Numerate enjoys significant cost savings by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

NYU Langone Medical Center

The High Performance Computing Facility of the New York University (NYU) Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics was established in 2009 to deliver forefront-computing capabilities to researchers at the NYU Langone Medical Center. The facility uses Globus Online, a free file transfer service hosted and powered by Amazon EC2, as well as Amazon S3 to allow medical informatics and bioinformatics researchers to share data and enable research computing needs that exceed local capacity limits.

Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks’ latest Customer Experience Management on Demand (CEMoD) solution is cloud-based, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). CEMoD makes it easier than ever for Nokia Siemens Networks’ customers to manage the end user experience in their mobile networks. Nokia Siemens Networks uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 for the end-to-end solution.

Obama for America

Obama For America (OFA), the organization driving Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign for re-election as President of the United States, designed, built, and deployed an election-winning technology system by using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The campaign technology team built close to 200 applications that kept thousands of volunteers connected and collaborating across the United States.

Olaworks, Inc.
Olaworks, Inc. creates face and object recognition technology, including visual search and camera-based applications for mobile devices. The company’s production infrastructure consists of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon SimpleDB. Additionally, Amazon Elastic MapReduce functions as the company’s testing environment. Since Olaworks’ launch, AWS has helped the company dramatically reduce predicted operating costs and increase the speed at which new features are introduced to the market.

Olery
Olery, an Amsterdam-based start-up, provides reputation management software for the leisure and hospitality industry. By moving to the AWS Cloud, Olery has access to a flexible infrastructure with the ability to scale automatically from 20 to more than 1,500 Amazon EC2 instances, which helps Olery analyze millions of reviews and data from over 500,000 hotels in less than 24 hours.

Pathwork Diagnostics
Pathwork Diagnostics, a molecular diagnostics company, uses Amazon EC2 and UniCloud to run complex algorithms to aid in the identification and diagnosis of cancer tumors.

Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. applies science and global resources to improve health and well-being at every stage of life. The company has set up an instance of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to provide a secure environment in which to carry out computations for worldwide research and development (WRD), which supports large-scale data analysis, research projects, clinical analytics, and modeling.

PSR
PSR provides technology solutions and consulting services to natural gas and electric utilities. Since migrating to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, PSR has streamlined the massive calculations of its scientific models and optimized computing efficiency through use of Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instances.

Politecnico di Milano
The nuclear energy department at Politecnico di Milano, one of the world's leading technical universities, is at the forefront of research on next generation nuclear reactors. When scientists began using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to perform CPU intensive neutronic and fluid-dynamic computations, they were able to run simulations three to four times faster than before, averaging two simulations per day.

Razorfish
Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading lets Razorfish focus on application development without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management, or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.

S&P Capital IQ
The S&P Capital IQ platform combines deep global company information and market research with powerful tools for fundamental analysis, idea generation, and workflow management. Based on web and Excel, it provides easy access to both real-time and historical information on companies, markets, transactions, and people worldwide.

The data science team saves time and money by using the cloud to build intelligent analytics for the platform, taking advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Amazon S3.

Sage Bionetworks
Using Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) for their collaborative computation platform, Sage Bionetworks helps medical researchers quickly and efficiently use scientific data for their true purpose: identifying cures for human diseases.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University, in collaboration with the Stanford Helix Group, needed to accelerate computations for their research project, FEATURE. Using machine learning techniques and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), the teams were able to complete research that previously would have taken them weeks in just hours while reducing computing costs.

Scribd
Scribd is one of the largest social publishing and reading sites on the Internet, with over 90 million monthly readers. Faced with a document conversion project involving millions of files, Scribd designed a large batch job running Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances, allowing Scribd to save 63% over its expected costs for a job of this size.

The Server Labs
The Server Labs is helping the European Space Agency build the operations infrastructure for the Gaia project. Using AWS, their goal is to create the largest, most precise 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying more than one billion stars.

SocialVibe

SocialVibe, a next-gen digital ad-tech company, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its engagement advertising platform. By leveraging multiple Availability Zones across different Regions and services such as Amazon DynamoDB, SocialVibe is growing globally and scaling dynamically to meet spikes in usage demands.

Spiral Genetics

Spiral Genetics, a bioinformatics firm built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), provides software that can analyze a human genome in only 3 hours—40 times faster than with an on-premises infrastructure.

swisstopo

Swisstopo, Switzerland’s national mapping agency, manages geographic information systems (GIS) projects for Swiss Federal offices and other customers. Moving from an on-premise infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabled swisstopo to support up to 50,000 unique visitors per day, which equates to approximately 20 TB of data transferred per month and 1,300 map tiles delivered per second.

Ticketmaster and MarketShare

Ticketmaster is North America’s top online venue for ticket sales and distribution and one of the continent’s highest ranked e-commerce websites. In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation Entertainment, and together with Live Nation’s website, Ticketmaster hosts more than 26 million unique visitors every month.

Recently, Ticketmaster partnered with MarketShare to develop a dynamic ticket pricing application called Pricemaster. MarketShare is an analytics company that empowers businesses to credibly measure and dramatically improve the return on their Marketing investments. MarketShare has a track record of ground-breaking innovations in marketing analytics working with over half of the Fortune 50.

Topsy

Topsy delivers real-time insight from social media conversations. The company uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cost-effective analysis and storage of 125 TB of data from online sources like Twitter, Google Plus, and LiveJournal, eliminating the need to invest in an on-premises infrastructure and saving the company $1M.

Unilever
With the help of Eagle Genomics, Unilever Research and Development created a digital data program to advance biology and informatics innovation. The program’s architecture combines Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with the eHive open-source workflow system. Since the program started, Unilever has been able to maintain its operational costs while processing genetic sequences twenty times faster and substantially increasing simultaneous workflows.

University of California Berkeley AMP Lab - Carat Project
The AMP Lab at the University of California Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research effort designed to build scalable machine learning and data analysis technology. With the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the AMP Lab team is able to scale up experiments and try new software on realistic configurations across thousands of computers. The AWS Cloud provides the AMP Lab access to low-cost infrastructure and on-demand computing resources, which support big data projects that include Carat, an application created to help measure energy productivity and improve battery life on cell phones.

University of California Berkeley AMP Lab - Genomics Research
The AMP Lab at the University of California Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research effort designed to build scalable machine learning and data analysis technology. With the help of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the AMP Lab team is able to scale up experiments and try new software on realistic configurations across thousands of computers. The AWS Cloud provides the AMP Lab access to low-cost infrastructure and on-demand computing resources, which support projects that include analyzing genome sequencing data to help advance cancer research.

University of Melbourne / University of Barcelona
In support of the Belle Experiment, an international High Energy Physics (HEP) experiment, a joint team from the University of Barcelona and the University of Melbourne uses Amazon EC2 and the DIRAC distributed computing software framework to define and steer the execution of experiment simulation and data reprocessing. Moving to Amazon EC2 Spot Instances enabled the University of Melbourne to save 56% per instance hour with negligible changes to their application.

Washington Post
The Washington Post uses Amazon EC2 to turn Hillary Clinton’s White House schedule—17,481 non-searchable PDF pages—into a searchable database within 24 hours.

Yelp
Yelp is a popular consumer review Website that uses Amazon S3 to store log files growing at 100GB per day and Amazon Elastic MapReduce to power approximately 20 separate batch scripts processing those logs, with s3cmd and the Ruby Elastic MapReduce utility for monitoring.

Enlighten Designs
Enlighten Designs uses AWS to stream live sporting events (e.g., Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010) by deploying instances on Amazon EC2 to power the underlying infrastructure for streaming live footage of these events.

Fotopedia
Fotopedia hosts 500,000 photos using Amazon EC2, Elastic IPs, and Elastic Load Balancing for hosting and Amazon S3 and CloudFront for media hosting and for internal log and data storage.

GigaVox Media
GigaVox uses Amazon Web Services to build and maintain a redundant, scalable, and highly available infrastructure that cost less than $100 to launch.

gnuine/La Vanguardia
Located in Barcelona, IT service provider gnuine develops custom web and mobile applications and provides system administration services. Recently, the company used Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to help newspaper client La Vanguardia deliver Spain’s best municipal election coverage.

Hitachi Systems
Hitachi Systems & Services, a member of the Hitachi Group, has turned to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to address their growing storage demands for their new, first of its kind in Japan, mobile service “Mobile Broadcast Solution.”

Hungama Digital Media Entertainment
The world’s largest aggregator, developer and publisher of Bollywood and Indian Entertainment content, Hungama Digital Media experienced cost savings of nearly 50% by migrating the majority of its IT infrastructure to the cloud. The company performs server and storage management on AWS using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS.

Indianapolis 500
Indy500.com stores more than 100,000 images using Amazon S3, and they use Amazon EC2 to host and stream live motor sport races to over 3.1 million visitors.

Junta de Andalucia
The Health Department of the Junta de Andalucía runs its Citizens Communication Public Web portal on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The Health Department’s application server portal serves large amounts of data including high definition videos, with an infrastructure cost using AWS estimated at 1/30 of what it would be with a regular infrastructure services provider.

Kenwood Solutions Group
For one of their high-profile clients, FOX Television, Kenwood Solutions Group developed a specialized solution called Request Fulfillment System or “RFS.” This solution supports television stations in centralizing their graphics and video departments.

LocateTV
LocateTV.com, a service delivered by NDS, was founded in 2007 and enables users to find content to watch on TV, DVD, and online. The LocateTV services platform makes full use of Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.

Marcellus
Marcellus provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) video platform, which delivers high quality video access on its clients’ Websites. Marcellus credits many solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), with helping it to maintain its growth while continuing to serve its current clients with an affordable and convenient content delivery option.

Idomoo
Idomoo was founded in 2007 and is one of the first-to-market communication solutions that combine the compelling power of video with personally relevant, individualized data. Looking for a solution to advance their business to the next stage, Idomoo now uses Amazon SQS and Amazon S3 to support their entire end-to-end solution.

MediaPlatform
MediaPlatform enables companies and digital media producers to build, run, and manage large-scale live and on-demand webcasts. MediaPlatform migrated its Software-as-a-Service offering to Amazon EC2, using Amazon Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic load and Amazon S3 for long-term storage, and is exploring Amazon CloudFront to distribute components of client webcasts.

Ooyala
Ooyala is a leading video technology and services company. Hundreds of companies power their video experiences with Ooyala’s sophisticated video management, monetization, delivery and analytics solutions. Its use of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) has helped it reduce development time, decrease time to market, and reduce short-term Cap-Ex investments.

Perform Group
Perform is a leading digital media company specializing in monetizing sports content. Perform’s ePlayer provides global publishers with the ability to easily embed a sports video player within their websites. ePlayer delivers more than 500 million video streams per month.

PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Pixamba
Pixamba runs its cloud-based stock imagery and microstock platform, Pixamba Media Management, entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.

Playfish
Playfish, a fast growing social games company, operates entirely on AWS, primarily using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.

Shazam
During the 2012 Super Bowl, the Shazam App ran on Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, and Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large Instances with Elastic Load Balancing. This infrastructure helped to support the processing of millions of transactions during this high-traffic event.

Seton Hall
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Center at Seton Hall University uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support faculty with a variety of technology-based teaching and research projects. The TLT Center relies on AWS to facilitate video streaming of events and quickly spin up pilot projects. Using AWS saves TLT $30,000 per year on staff and infrastructure costs.

So-net
So-net Entertainment Corporation, one of Japan’s largest Internet Service Providers and Media and Entertainment companies, reduced their analytics costs by over 50% using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Sonico.com
Sonico.com, a social networking site with over 48 million registered users, moved its more than 1 billion images to Amazon S3 and performs all of its image upload, processing, and storage using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The company also leverages Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and MySQL instances running on Amazon EC2.

Soundtrckr
Soundtrckr is the first geosocial Internet radio, with 8 million songs available to users to create radio stations and easily share them on social media applications. To do nimble development without big time expenses, Soundtrckr uses the following Amazon services: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Storage, Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon CloudFront.

Tubaah
NDTV (New Delhi Television), one of India’s largest media houses, partnered with Tekriti Software to build Tubaah on Amazon Web Services and take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and cost savings offered by AWS. The success of Tubaah led NDTV to move its core site, www.NDTV.com, to AWS.

Twistage
One of the earliest online video platforms, Twistage built on AWS to achieve “tremendous scale at very low cost”, according to CEO David Wadler. Twistage stores video on Amazon S3 and uses Amazon EC2 for content ingestion and encoding.

U.S. Department of State
The United States Department of State and its prime contractor, MetroStar Systems, built an online video contest platform to encourage discussion and participation around cultural topics, and to promote membership in its ExchangesConnect network. The contest drew participants from more than 160 countries and took advantage of AWS’s scalability using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBs, and Elastic Load Balancing.

Universal Church
The Universal Church, a Pentecostal Christian organization founded in Brazil, experienced outages when streaming special television and radio events. Working with APN partner Dedalus, the church moved to AWS, improving availability while saving approximately $1.25 million in costs.

CastingWords
Nathan McFarland, co-founder of CastingWords tells us about utilizing Amazon Mechanical Turk for their low-cost, high-quality podcast transcription services.

Knewton
Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton, shares how the company uses Mechanical Turk in innovative ways to aid in everything from performance testing to building a lead database.

Magnify.net - Curation Nation
Steve Rosenbaum is the founder and CEO of Magnify.net, and the author of Curation Nation: How To Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators (McGrawHill / Spring 2011). With Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Mechanical Turk, Rosenbaum was able to work quickly to complete his book with a standard of quality expected by his publisher and his readers.

SnapMyLife
George Grey, CEO of SnapMyLife tells us about his mobile web application and use of Amazon Mechanical Turk to moderate user uploaded photos.

Stanford AI Lab
Rion Snow from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University tells us about his use of Mechanical Turk in his natural language processing and machine learning research.

Getty Images
Getty Images, a Seattle-based digital media company, used AWS to move the back end of the company’s search engine from a solution that did not scale to one that is as flexible as they are, saving themselves half a million dollars in the process.

Hanzo
Hanzo turns to Amazon Web Services to achieve their goal of indexing the World Wide Web and storing it in a browsable and searchable archive.

MiraiBio
MiraiBio uses Amazon EC2 uses to run multiple algorithms against a given DNA sequence in their DNASIS SmartNote notebook and display relevant articles to biologists.

SearchBlox Software
SearchBlox on Amazon EC2 offers a cost-effective and scalable search solution with no upfront investment in hardware or software.

SmugMug - Amazon CloudSearch
SmugMug, a premium online photo and video sharing business, selected Amazon CloudSearch to power searches across billions of photos and videos. By using Amazon CloudSearch, SmugMug can focus on displaying search results instead of managing and scaling their search application.

Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation
The Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation hosts an annual event known as Museum Night. The popular event creates a spike in visits on the foundation's website immediately before and during the event. In order to handle the increased visitor load, the foundation and its website host, Webslice, turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for temporary support.

Automobili Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. manufactures luxury super sports cars in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy. When the company’s outdated website and infrastructure needed an update, Automobili Lamborghini chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring a new website online in less than one month, supporting a new product launch that generated a 250% increase in website traffic.

BandPage
San Francisco-based, BandPage developed an online application so that musicians can share concert schedules, photos, videos and more with their fans on Facebook, websites, and blogs. Using a wide range of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), BandPage connects more than 500,000 musicians with millions of fans.

Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice, based in Austin, Texas, makes software that mines customer reviews online and delivers business insights to its clients. By using AWS, Bazaarvoice can scale to meet daily traffic demands and automatically turn off resources when they are no longer needed.

Better Generation
Better Generation channels the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to perform wind and solar energy assessments. The company’s core microgeneration tool, Power Predictor, uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS. Beyond Power Predictor, the company relies on additional AWS resources for emails, website hosting, and video distribution.

Bookrags
Bookrags, an online provider of educational resources, worked with AWS Premier Consulting Partner, 2nd Watch, to: move their operations to the AWS Cloud and achieve total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, increase their uptime, and make their services more scalable. 2nd Watch used the TCO calculator (aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator) to estimate cost savings. Bookrags found the estimates accurate, and have reduced costs by over 50% since migrating to the AWS Cloud compared to their on-premises infrastructure.

Caelum
Based in Brazil, Caelum is the country's largest tech training company focused on providing superior Java, Ruby, Rails and Agile training and consulting. Caelum's e-learning platform is deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), while the company also uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon SMS.

ChefTV
ChefTV is a Brazilian cable TV channel and website completely dedicated to cuisine. In 2011, ChefTV started a partnership with Brazilian IT consultancy Concrete Solutions, which used the AWS Cloud to improve ChefTV’s online presence.

Choice Logistics
Choice Logistics, Inc. provides time-critical delivery services to businesses and an available and efficient messaging environment is vital. By working with APN partner Smartronix to deploy Microsoft Exchange 2010 on the AWS Cloud, Choice Logistics can respond to business demands and resize mailbox servers containing terabytes of data in minutes.

CITYTECH
CITYTECH is an IT consultancy for enterprise-level solutions, such as Web content management, application development, and managed infrastructure services. CITYTECH recently helped the Web services provider CaringBridge improve its system performance by integrating Amazon CloudFront as its content delivery network and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as both a persistence layer and static content storage.

CloudAngels
CloudAngels uses AWS to enable imageloop.com’s online slideshow platform to scale

CozyCot
CozyCot.com is a social networking Website where women share ideas and views about topics such as beauty, fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, health, parenting, and food. The AWS solution – comprising Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 , Amazon RDS, Amazon Cloud Watch, Amazon EBS, and Elastic Load Balancing – ensures that the Website effectively processes traffic.

D-Link
D-Link Corporation, an international networking solutions provider, needed to launch its cloud-based service portal, mydlink, quickly and economically. By migrating to AWS, the company was able to build and deploy the portal in only six weeks, and estimates 30% faster service delivery to customers while reducing IT costs by roughly 50%.

Digitaria
Digitaria uses Amazon EC2 to create cost-effective virtual hosting environments for their client’s websites, including Hasbro, BravoTV/NBC Universal, KPBS, and others.

Discover Technology
Discover Technology is a Brazilian consulting firm offering the mobile retail operations market pre-packaged solutions targeting business opportunities. To maintain flexibility and simplicity in architecting, designing, and implementing complete IT solutions, the company uses several Amazon Web Services (AWS) products: Amazon EC2, Amazon ELB, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.

Dolphin Browser
The Dolphin Browser by MoboTap, Inc. has been downloaded over 13 million times onto Android, iPhone and iPad mobile devices. The majority of the browser’s services and backend operations are powered by more than eighty instances running Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EMR, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront.

Edmodo
Edmodo is a safe social network for education used by over 8 million teachers and students. Edmodo relies on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to manage its databases, which support more than 500 connections per second during peak times and host over 200,000 website requests per minute.

EyeEm
Berlin start-up, EyeEm, provider of a popular photography platform for sharing smartphone pictures, turned to AWS for help managing unexpected growth and traffic spikes. By running on AWS, EyeEm can scale to handle traffic spikes 30 to 50 times higher than normal and manage a tenfold increase in usage.

FunPlus Game
Based in China, social gaming company FunPlus Game has recently grown from one million users to exceed three million daily active users. To handle the explosion in growth, the company switched from using traditional datacenters to using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront. Switching to AWS provided FunPlus Game with the availability, reliability, and flexibility it needed to support its rapid growth.

Futbol Club Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona) is a highly popular soccer team based in Barcelona, Spain. In order to maintain the FCBarcelona website—which boasts over 6,000 pages and over 12,000 digitized photos, and is available in six languages—FCBarcelona’s partner, Gnuine, uses a number of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products to host Ubiquo Sports, a specialized SaaS CMS: Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon CloudFormation.

Gumiyo
Online mobile commerce provider Gumiyo runs a complete production environment with Amazon Web Services, including web servers, database servers, and load balancers.

Health Guru
Health Guru is one of the leading providers of online health information videos. Faced with scalability and performance challenges, the company switched to Amazon ElastiCache, resulting in a 92.5% improvement in web service performance.

Hudl
Hudl, an Iowa-based online platform for sports data and video analysis, uses the AWS Cloud to provide reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure as the company and its storage needs grow.

Hi-Media
Hi-Media is the Internet publisher of the Fotolog photo blogging website. Hi-Media rebuilt the site and moved it to Amazon Web Services (AWS) where it runs on Amazon S3, Amazon SES, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon EC2 with Amazon EBS and Elastic Load Balancing. This new environment easily scales to meet the demands of Fotolog’s 32 million global users who have collectively posted 1 billion photos and 10 billion comments.

ICCK.net
ICCK is one of the leading providers in Colombia for high-end mass media portals such as elespectador.com, caracoltv.com, cromos.com.co, shock.com.co, linkempleo.com, and ojubi.com. ICCK turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS solution provider Avanxo, to design a high availability and scalable architecture that can also increase operational efficiency. As a result, ICCK was able to decrease their time to market and reduce costs by 30%.

ionatec
Web and software developer ionatec creates innovative IT solutions for Brazilian startup companies, in addition to conducting infrastructure migrations from local to cloud-based environments. The company executes all of its staging and production processes within Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Today, ionatec is also improving its functionality through the incorporation of Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.

IsCool Entertainment
IsCool Entertainment, a French social gaming company, has established the number one French social application on Facebook. Faced with the challenge of highly variable usage spikes, the company is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run the production services for all four of its games. Bringing together over 2.8 million enthusiastic fans, IsCool Entertainment is currently using Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon EMR, and Amazon S3.

Itaú Cultural
The non-profit institute Itaú Cultural researches and produces cultural and artistic projects for the benefit of Brazilian society. The institute's IT department was recently challenged to improve its existing infrastructure for hosting individual projects. In response, the department integrated Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to house a WordPress and MySQL environment, with plans for other types of platforms in the near future.

iTwin Pte. Ltd.
By using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its backend system and host its website, iTwin Technology has drastically reduced its operating costs.

JoomlArt
JoomlArt is a leading Joomla!, Magento, and Drupal template provider. As well as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the company has developed an Amazon S3 / CloudFront component for Joomla!, which enables easy integration of Amazon S3 and CloudFront support for Joomla! CMS and enables Joomla! users to easily adapt AWS for their sites.

Lafarge
Lafarge is the world leader in building materials, with top-ranking positions in all of its businesses: Cement, Aggregates and Concrete, and Gypsum. With 76,000 employees in 78 countries, Lafarge posted sales of €16.2 billion in 2010.

The League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV), a US-based nonpartisan political organization that provides voter education and advocacy, needed a hosting solution for its website that could scale up to meet heavy demand during federal elections. LWV uses Amazon Web Services to provide continual availability, scaling from 3 server instances to 60 on Election Day.

MediaNet / Prisa
PRISA, a Spanish and Portuguese-language business group, recently asked Spanish IT services company, MediaNet Software, to create a temporary micro-site. The micro-site preregistered users before the official launch of PRISA's daily deals website, http://www.planeo.com MediaNet utilized Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to create the micro-site's short-term yet dynamic infrastructure.

Mimesis Republic
French technology company Mimesis Republic is the creator of Mamba Nation, a 3D virtual universe that includes social games and integrates with social networks, including Facebook. Mimesis Republic is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the company’s high scalability requirements to support its large next generation virtual world audience.

The Motley Fool
Virginia-based financial services firm The Motley Fool provides financial advice to individual investors. When the company migrated its Australia website to AWS, page load times improved, resulting in a better customer experience.

Neowiz
Neowiz, a South Korean game company, needed a flexible, highly available infrastructure to continue to grow globally. Neowiz uses AWS to add new resources in about five minutes, enabling the company to focus on developing games instead of managing IT.

NREL / OpenEI.org
OpenEI.org, managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by its National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is a free, open source knowledge sharing platform created to facilitate access to data, models, tools, and information that accelerate the transition to clean energy systems through informed decisions. Built on AWS, OpenEI.org makes use of Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Elastic Load Balancing.

Orange Digital
Orange Digital manages digital services for the United Kingdom-based telecommunications company, Everything Everywhere. By moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Orange Digital is able to scale to support spikes in traffic and capacity, and reduce costs by an estimated £2 million over a three-year period.

Outsmart
Outsmart 2005, a New Zealand entertainment and online media company, turned to AWS to run its SmallWorlds game environment. As a result, performance improved by 20% and Outsmart grew the number of active players it could support from 400,000 to 1,000,000.

Overseas Vote Foundation
When the Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) decided to expand its services to voters living in the US, the company launched the US Vote Foundation, which offers services including voter registration and absentee ballot requests. OVF turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve performance, handle a 20% percent increase in peak user demand, and reduce costs.

Peixe Urbano
In 2010, the deal-a-day website Peixe Urbano launched on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With its Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, the start-up was able to begin operations free of upfront investment costs, while still positioning itself within a highly-scalable environment capable of supporting rapid growth. That planning paid off, as Peixe Urbano is now Brazil's largest collective discount website.

Perx
Perx is Singapore's leading mobile customer loyalty application accepted at over 300 locations. The free app enables users to scan a QR code with their phone to earn loyalty rewards for their everyday transactions, while at the same time allowing merchants to increase revenues while protecting their brand. In order to expand and manage their services, Perx uses several solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon RDS.

R7
The R7 portal, owned by Record TV Network, offers news, entertainment, sports, videos, and online services. In order to ensure a fast, high-quality viewing experience, and cut costs, the company uses a solution involving several Amazon Web Services products: Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Linux and Windows instances, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

Rangespan
Rangespan is an ecommerce company that provides a hosted supply chain service for retailers to offer millions of additional products. To keep inventing and providing new services to clients, Rangespan is completely cloud-based, using a number of solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including: Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS with snapshots, Amazon ELB, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Amazon SES, Amazon SQS, and Amazon IAM.

Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB)
To provide public accountability for recovery spending, the RATB was tasked with developing a website, recovery.gov. The RATB decided to use the AWS platform after discovering that AWS outperformed the RATB’s on-premises solution at a fraction of the cost. The website received FISMA Low certification and utilizes Microsoft SharePoint, SAP BusinessObjects, Microsoft SQL Server, and ESRI software.

Sanoma
Sanoma Games designs casual online gaming and fantasy sports leagues as part of the Sanoma diversified media group. The business unit recently closed its local datacenter in order to build a scalable, service-based architecture that can facilitate expansion into additional markets and gaming categories. Cloud management specialist Nordcloud was appointed to create and manage the new environment, which now includes Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon CloudWatch.

Score Media
Score Media Ventures is the digital arm of Score Media, Inc. Score Media Ventures offers fans multiplatform content, displaying the edgy side of sports news and information. In order to maintain a balance between rapid development cycles, service uptime, and transparent access to sports data, Score Media uses Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses, and Amazon RDS.

SEGA
The SEGA Online Operations team builds and maintains Internet platforms for the company's western divisions and subsidiary studios. The team has successfully migrated its public websites onto cloud-based systems, making use of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

ShareThis
Cost-effectiveness, responsiveness, and reliability are the reasons ShareThis uses Amazon Web Services to power their content-sharing application.

Smartia
Smartia is a Brazilian web site that targets consumers in the market for insurance. After entering a few relevant details, users gain access to car, home, life, health, or travel insurance quotes from a variety of companies. Smartia is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Route 53, Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC, and Amazon ELB to provide its free and convenient service to consumers.

Swiftrank
Swiftrank uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon RDS to manage its rapidly growing global travel network. With 12,000 location-based Websites, Swiftrank relies on AWS to deliver a secure, cost-effective, and scalable network for its customers.

Totaljobs Group
Totaljobs Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing online job board providers in the United Kingdom. Totaljobs Group estimates that its recent move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) will reduce hosting costs by $500,000 per year.

Trinity Mirror plc
Trinity Mirror plc, one of the United Kingdom’s largest newspaper publishers, was looking for a service provider with an agile, resilient infrastructure for its online assets. Since migrating to AWS, Trinity estimates that the homepage of the Mirror.co.uk website has experienced almost 100% availability.

USDA FNS
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the nutrition assistance programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the FNS has launched a dynamic Web-based application called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Locator to help SNAP recipients find the nearest SNAP authorized stores.

Virada Cultural
GeneXus International is the creator of GeneXus, a systems development tool for creating applications in the most popular languages and platforms in the market, with no need for programming. The company was recently tasked with developing a mobile application for the Virada Cultural mega-show in São Paulo, Brazil. Using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, GeneXus International successfully completed the Virada Cultural mobile application project within an extremely tight time schedule. In the end, the application handled over 6,000,000 requests within the event's two-day time period.

VivaReal
VivaReal hosts 6 unique Latin American real estate marketplaces and their central property database of approximately one million properties on AWS. Lea en español. Leia dentro portuguêses.

Vodafone
Australian telecommunications provider, Vodafone, needed to expand its live streaming service to meet high demand during cricket season. By using AWS, Vodafone is able to scale and improve capacity to support 10,000 simultaneous live streams.

WeTransfer
WeTransfer, an Amsterdam-based start-up, needed a scalable solution to support its fast-growing file transfer service. By migrating to AWS, WeTransfer can automatically scale between 10 and 60 instances to manage demand and handle more than 8100 TB of data.

ZAGG Inc.
ZAGG, Inc. specializes in protective accessories for consumer electronics, including the popular invisibleSHIELD adhesive film for mobile devices. The company’s products are sold through retail locations, online affiliates, and an ecommerce website that produces over $30 million dollars in revenue. The site incorporates a growing list of Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3 and Amazon SES. ZAGG also worked with AWS Solution Provider 8KMiles to further bolster the website’s availability and cost-effectiveness by running an open source LAMP stack positioned within and Amazon Linux AMI.

Zedo
ZEDO, an innovative digital ad technology company based in San Francisco, CA, offers products and services that help publishers sell and deliver Internet ads. By migrating to AWS, ZEDO is able to improve ad delivery time by almost 50% and reduce its operating costs by 40%.

Zoopla
In the first 12 months since launch, Zoopla estimates it has saved at least £200,000 in the areas of data-centre costs, server cap-ex, server upgrade/maintenance costs, sys admin salaries, network equipment, etc.