AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Industries

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 […]

How AWS Data Lab helped BMW Financial Services design and build a multi-account modern data architecture

This post is co-written by Martin Zoellner, Thomas Ehrlich and Veronika Bogusch from BMW Group. BMW Group and AWS announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration in 2020. The goal of the collaboration is to further accelerate BMW Group’s pace of innovation by placing data and analytics at the center of its decision-making. A key element of […]

Enable self-service visual data integration and analysis for fund performance using AWS Glue Studio and Amazon QuickSight

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. IMM (Institutional Money Market) is a mutual fund that invests in highly liquid instruments, cash, and cash equivalents. IMM funds are large financial intermediaries that are crucial to financial stability in the US. Due to its criticality, IMM funds are highly regulated under the security […]

How Epos Now modernized their data platform by building an end-to-end data lake with the AWS Data Lab

Epos Now provides point of sale and payment solutions to over 40,000 hospitality and retailers across 71 countries. Their mission is to help businesses of all sizes reach their full potential through the power of cloud technology, with solutions that are affordable, efficient, and accessible. Their solutions allow businesses to leverage actionable insights, manage their […]

ProLink uses Amazon QuickSight to enable states to deliver housing assistance to those in need

This is a joint post by ProLink Solutions and AWS. ProLink Solutions builds software solutions for emergency fund deployment to help state agencies distribute funds to homeowners in need. Over the past 20 years, ProLink Solutions has developed software for the affordable housing industry, designed to make the experience less complicated and easy to report […]

Featured Stateful Architecture

Doing more with less: Moving from transactional to stateful batch processing

Amazon processes hundreds of millions of financial transactions each day, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, royalties, amortizations, and remittances, from over a hundred different business entities. All of this data is sent to the eCommerce Financial Integration (eCFI) systems, where they are recorded in the subledger. Ensuring complete financial reconciliation at this scale is critical […]

Analyze daily trading activity using transaction data from Amazon Redshift in Amazon FinSpace

Financial services organizations use data from various sources to discover new insights and improve trading decisions. Finding the right dataset and getting access to the data can frequently be a time-consuming process. For example, to analyze daily trading activity, analysts need to find a list of available databases and tables, identify its owner’s contact information, […]

Implement anti-money laundering solutions on AWS

The detection and prevention of financial crime continues to be an important priority for banks. Over the past 10 years, the level of activity in financial crimes compliance in financial services has expanded significantly, with regulators around the globe taking scores of enforcement actions and levying $36 billion in fines. Apart from the fines, the […]

How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]