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Category: Amazon Kinesis

AWS IoT Greengrass stream manager sending data directly to Kinesis

Creating scalable architectures with AWS IoT Greengrass stream manager

Designing a scalable, global, real-time, distributed system to process millions of messages from a variety of critical devices can complicate architectures. Collecting large data streams or image recognition from the edge also requires scalable solutions. AWS IoT Core is designed to handle large numbers of Internet of things (IoT) devices sending a few messages per […]

Data pipeline for the healthcare industry using IBM CP4D on AWS

Building a healthcare data pipeline on AWS with IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Healthcare data is being generated at an increased rate with the proliferation of connected medical devices and clinical systems. Some examples of these data are time-sensitive patient information, including results of laboratory tests, pathology reports, X-rays, digital imaging, and medical devices to monitor a patient’s vital signs, such as blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature. […]

Building event-driven architectures with IoT sensor data

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings sensors, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve productivity and efficiency. It empowers customers with the intelligence they need to build new services and business models, improve products and services over time, understand their customers’ needs to provide better services, and improve customer experiences. Business operations become more […]

Launchmetrics backend architecture

How Launchmetrics improves fashion brands performance using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Launchmetrics offers its Brand Performance Cloud tools and intelligence to help fashion, luxury, and beauty retail executives optimize their global strategy. Launchmetrics initially operated their whole infrastructure on-premises; however, they wanted to scale their data ingestion while simultaneously providing improved and faster insights for their clients. These business needs led them to build their architecture […]

Digital shopping experience architecture

Amazon Personalize customer outreach on your ecommerce platform

In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers leveraged native marketing and advertisement channels to engage with consumers. They have promoted their products and services through TV commercials, and magazine and newspaper ads. Many of them have started using social media and digital advertisements. Although marketing approaches are beginning to modernize and expand to digital channels, businesses still […]

Launching cloud architecture patterns as AWS Service Catalog products

Maintain visibility over the use of cloud architecture patterns

Cloud platform and enterprise architecture teams use architecture patterns to provide guidance for different use cases. Cloud architecture patterns are typically aggregates of multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, such as Elastic Load Balancing with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon Relational Database Service with Amazon ElastiCache. In a large organization, cloud platform teams often […]

Figure 1. 32guards threat reports architecture

How Net at Work built an email threat report system on AWS

Emails are often used as an entry point for malicious software like trojan horses, rootkits, or encryption-based ransomware. The NoSpamProxy offering developed by Net at Work tackles this threat, providing secure and confidential email communication. A subservice of NoSpamProxy called 32guards is responsible for threat reports of inbound and outbound emails. With the increasing number […]

Mainframe data integration conceptual flow

Mainframe data integration: Using mainframe data to build cloud native services with AWS

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Figure 1. Architecture diagram of an anomaly detection solution for ecommerce traffic

Automating Anomaly Detection in Ecommerce Traffic Patterns

Many organizations with large ecommerce presences have procedures to detect major anomalies in their user traffic. Often, these processes use static alerts or manual monitoring. However, the ability to detect minor anomalies in traffic patterns near real-time can be challenging. Early detection of these minor anomalies in ecommerce traffic (such as website page visits and […]

Figure 1. Connect data streaming automation workflow

Automate Amazon Connect Data Streaming using AWS CDK

Many customers want to provision Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resources quickly and consistently with lifecycle management, by treating infrastructure as code (IaC). Commonly used services are AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform. Currently, customers set up Amazon Connect data streaming manually, as the service is not available under CloudFormation resource types. Customers may want to […]