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Tag: Guest Post
Semi-Autonomous Driving Using EC2 Spot Instances at Mapbox
Please note: We have updated the Amazon EC2 Spot pricing model as of November, 2017. The new pricing model simplifies purchasing without bidding and with fewer interruptions. Click here to learn more about the updated pricing model. Will White of Mapbox shared the following guest post with me. In the post, Will describes how they use […]
GE Oil & Gas – Digital Transformation in the Cloud
GE Oil & Gas is a relatively young division of General Electric, the product of a series of acquisitions made by parent company General Electric starting in the late 1980s. Today GE Oil &Gas is pioneering the digital transformation of the company. In the guest post below, Ben Cabanas, the CTO of GE Transportation and […]
Autheos – At the Nexus of Marketing and E-Commerce
In today’s guest post, Leon Mergen, CTO of Autheos, reviews their company history and their move to AWS. — Jeff; Adding video to a product page on an e-commerce site is perhaps the single most effective way to drive increased sales — studies have shown sales conversion rates can go up by more than two […]
Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analysis at Cloud Academy
In today’s guest post, Alex Casalboni and Giacomo Marinangeli of Cloud Academy discuss the design and development of their new Inspire system. — Jeff; Our Challenge Mixing technology and content has been our mission at Cloud Academy since the very early days. We are builders and we love technology, but we also know content is […]
LiveOps Cloud – Tapping the Billion Dollar Call-Center Market on AWS
LiveOps Cloud is ready to break open a huge untapped market. The company is a long-time solutions provider for the contact center industry, and just recently launched CxEngage, a new contact center-as-a-service platform built and run entirely on AWS. I asked Jeff Thompson, LiveOps Cloud’s CTO and SVP for engineering, to tell us a bit […]
Building Bridges for Better Cancer Treatment with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
My colleagues Jessica Beegle and Christopher Crosbie shared the inspiring story below! — Jeff; The science of cancer research is continually evolving to include new fields of study. Examples include development of chemotherapies, radiology amplified treatments, and epidemiology for identifying carcinogens. Pathology continues to help deepen the understanding of the disease’s manifestations. The discipline of […]
Experiment that Discovered the Higgs Boson Uses AWS to Probe Nature
My colleague Sanjay Padhi is part of the AWS Scientific Computing team. He wrote the guest post below to share the story of how AWS provided computational resources that aided in an important scientific discovery. — Jeff; The Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the God Particle), responsible for providing insight into the origin of […]
Airbnb – Reinventing the Hospitality Industry on AWS
Airbnb is a classic story of how a few people with a great idea can disrupt an entire industry. Launched in 2008, over 80 million guests have stayed on Airbnb in over 2 million homes in over 190 countries. They recently opened 4,000 homes in Cuba to travelers around the globe. The company was also […]