AWS for Industries
Category: Analytics
Ingest Amazon Retail Data into a Serverless Modern Data Architecture
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which sell a vast number of products through Amazon.com, need scalable, cost-effective, and accessible data visibility into Amazon Seller and Vendor Central. This enables the management of orders, keeping product catalogs up-to-date, accessing inventory insights, and tracking sales, shipments, and payments. Over the past several years, CPG companies have outsourced […]
Revive lost revenue from bad ecommerce search using Natural Language Processing
Ecommerce sites are supposed to be prompt, precise and above all, user-friendly. Yet, their search performance history reveals an unsatisfactory reality for shoppers and retailers. According to Baymard Institute, “61% of all ecommerce sites show search results that are misaligned to users’ searches,” forcing shoppers to either enter a new search or abandon their old […]
How to manage and bill structured energy contracts on AWS
Energy companies are still using architectures based on monolithic systems when managing and billing energy service contracts. Architectures where the billing processes have been built using stored procedures inside a database are common. These architectures limit the capabilities of the business units to create, manage, and invoice contracts based on new products and services, especially […]
Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital markets customers for analysis of real-time and historical time series data
Today, AWS is announcing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical time series data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power […]
Top re:Invent 2022 takeaways for the advertising and marketing technology industry
There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]
Arriva’s data journey: building an enterprise Data Hub with AWS
This is a guest post by Neil Brown, Chief Technology Officer for Arriva Group. Arriva, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, has long struggled to measure its business performance due to a lack of consistent and identifiable ways of sourcing data. Their businesses, including those in the UK, Denmark and Sweden, […]
CPG Partner Conversations: Lemongrass’s cloud-native approach fuels CPG companies
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to businesses and global markets. Now, most of the world appears to be past the uncertainty and turbulence of the pandemic. However, companies, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, continue to deal with major challenges, like supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. At the same time, consumer […]
Marathon Oil Scales Intelligent Alerts to Over 4,000 Wells Using AWS Partner Seeq
With 4,000 wells to manage and intelligent alerts to build and run, Marathon Oil decided to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve its alert development time from months to hours. With its existing environment, the team at Marathon Oil was developing on average four intelligent alerts per year. “We weren’t getting any traction because […]
How Vodafone is using AWS and Broadband Forum User Service Platform (USP) standard to re-architect the management of its Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and become more adaptive to changes
Vodafone Group Plc [VOD] is a global communications company offering a combination of mobile, fixed, TV, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud & security services to consumers and enterprises. With network presence in many countries worldwide, Vodafone serves more than 330M mobile subscribers and over 28M fixed broadband users in Europe. Like many other Telcos, Vodafone has […]
How Machine Learning on AWS can help customers predict the risk of Automotive Part Recalls
This blog focuses on a potential method to use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) machine learning models to help customers predict parts that are likely to become defects or recalls. Specifically, we show how predictions generated from an LSTM may provide customers with early indicators that generally out-perform existing manual processes and can help assist […]






