AWS for Industries

In today’s complex industrial environments, predictive maintenance remains a key challenge for Energy, Utilities, and Manufacturing sectors. Traditional anomaly detection methods are labor-intensive and time-consuming, often leaving critical equipment vulnerabilities unaddressed for hours or days—leading to significant unplanned downtime and financial impact. McKinsey estimates mid-size refineries lose $20–50 million annually due to reliability issues. Typical […]

Introduction Creating a comprehensive, 360-degree view of your customer in today’s competitive business landscape improves end-customer experience, operational strategy, and marketing efficiency. Customer behavior is moving from in-person transactions in brick-and-mortar locations to online, personalized interactions fueled by data. Companies are capable of learning more about their customers if they can sort through the noise. […]

Introduction Factor modeling in hedge funds is a quantitative approach that identifies and analyzes key drivers of asset returns. It lets fund managers to optimize portfolios, manage risk, and generate alpha by leveraging vast amounts of market data. This technique facilitates the development of sophisticated trading strategies, enhancing investment performance and providing a competitive edge […]

Building on our previous exploration of AWS Mainframe Modernization for the telecommunications industry, we now turn our focus to a powerful partnership that’s revolutionizing the modernization journey for telcos. In this blog post, we delve into how AWS and Astadia, an Amdocs Company, are joining forces to provide a comprehensive, automated solution for mainframe modernization […]

Evidence suggests that adverse consequences of heart disease, such as stroke and heart attack, can be prevented by appropriate lifestyle and medical management. Leveraging standards-compliant services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) HealthLake, the People Heart Study team has built a system that allows it to collect and analyze health data relevant to the study. […]

This AWS FSI Blog post outlines how Zurich Insurance in the UK, or ‘Zurich’ in the remainder of this post, is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) with Amazon SageMaker AI to anticipate flood claims, thereby proactively protecting customers against potentially catastrophic events. Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading insurer providing property, casualty, […]

Volvo Cars Superset tech stack Software is replacing hardware as the primary driver of innovation and value creation. It is ushering in a new era of mobility, where vehicles can integrate seamlessly into society and be rolled out globally. For Volvo Cars, the software-defined vehicle, realized with support of Amazon EKS and AWS Graviton, holds […]

Bioinformatics researchers running production genomic workflows face a critical challenge: ensuring computational resources are properly allocated to maximize cost efficiency without sacrificing performance. Today, we’re excited to share significant enhancements to the AWS HealthOmics Run Analyzer tool that directly address this challenge. These capabilities deliver substantial benefits to our customers, including: The ability to analyze […]

Many retail customers depend on successful peak events to drive significant revenue. Peak events include promotional sales days like Amazon Prime Day, holiday sales, and the globally recognized Black Friday-Cyber Monday period. According to the National Retail Federation, in 2023, a record 200.4 million consumers shopped over the five-day holiday weekend from Thanksgiving Day through […]

Backtesting plays a critical role in algorithmic trading. Firms leverage XGBoost for backtesting to build predictive models that forecast market movements based on historical data. Training XGBoost models is computationally expensive though, and can quickly become a bottleneck, especially when working with large historical datasets. This blog post shows how quantitative trading firms distribute XGBoost […]