AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Industries

Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

Financial services customers are using data from different sources that originate at different frequencies, which includes real time, batch, and archived datasets. Additionally, they need streaming architectures to handle growing trade volumes, market volatility, and regulatory demands. The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since […]

Mastering market dynamics: Transforming transaction cost analytics with ultra-precise Tick History – PCAP and Amazon Athena for Apache Spark

This post is cowritten with Pramod Nayak, LakshmiKanth Mannem and Vivek Aggarwal from the Low Latency Group of LSEG. Transaction cost analysis (TCA) is widely used by traders, portfolio managers, and brokers for pre-trade and post-trade analysis, and helps them measure and optimize transaction costs and the effectiveness of their trading strategies. In this post, […]

How healthcare organizations can analyze and create insights using price transparency data

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on price transparency in the healthcare industry. Under the Transparency in Coverage (TCR) rule, hospitals and payors to publish their pricing data in a machine-readable format. With this move, patients can compare prices between different hospitals and make informed healthcare decisions. For more information, refer to […]

Using Experian identity resolution with AWS Clean Rooms to achieve higher audience activation match rates

This is a guest post co-written with Tyler Middleton, Experian Senior Partner Marketing Manager, and Jay Rakhe, Experian Group Product Manager. As the data privacy landscape continues to evolve, companies are increasingly seeking ways to collect and manage data while protecting privacy and intellectual property. First party data is more important than ever for companies […]

Process price transparency data using AWS Glue

The Transparency in Coverage rule is a federal regulation in the United States that was finalized by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in October 2020. The rule requires health insurers to provide clear and concise information to consumers about their health plan benefits, including costs and coverage details. Under the rule, health […]

How the BMW Group analyses semiconductor demand with AWS Glue

This is a guest post co-written by Maik Leuthold and Nick Harmening from BMW Group. The BMW Group is headquartered in Munich, Germany, where the company oversees 149,000 employees and manufactures cars and motorcycles in over 30 production sites across 15 countries. This multinational production strategy follows an even more international and extensive supplier network. Like many automobile companies across the world, the […]

Patterns for enterprise data sharing at scale

Data sharing is becoming an important element of an enterprise data strategy. AWS services like AWS Data Exchange provide an avenue for companies to share or monetize their value-added data with other companies. Some organizations would like to have a data sharing platform where they can establish a collaborative and strategic approach to exchange data […]

A dive into redBus’s data platform and how they used Amazon QuickSight to accelerate business insights

This post is co-authored with Girish Kumar Chidananda from redBus. redBus is one of the earliest adopters of AWS in India, and most of its services and applications are hosted on the AWS Cloud. AWS provided redBus the flexibility to scale their infrastructure rapidly while keeping costs extremely low. AWS has a comprehensive suite of services […]

How BookMyShow saved 80% in costs by migrating to an AWS modern data architecture

This is a guest post co-authored by Mahesh Vandi Chalil, Chief Technology Officer of BookMyShow. BookMyShow (BMS), a leading entertainment company in India, provides an online ticketing platform for movies, plays, concerts, and sporting events. Selling up to 200 million tickets on an annual run rate basis (pre-COVID) to customers in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, […]

How Novo Nordisk built a modern data architecture on AWS

Novo Nordisk is a leading global pharmaceutical company, responsible for producing life-saving medicines that reach more than 34 million patients each day. They do this following their triple bottom line—that they must strive to be environmentally sustainable, socially sustainable, and financially sustainable. The combination of using AWS and data supports all these targets. Data is […]