AWS for Industries

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Learn how to execute Monte Carlo Simulations and Machine Learning data processing at any scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map and AWS Lambda

Simplify Monte Carlo Simulations with AWS Serverless services

Learn how to execute Monte Carlo Simulations and Machine Learning data processing at any scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map and AWS Lambda. Organizations across the financial services industry including those providing insurance products rely on Monte Carlo simulations and machine learning feature engineering processes for product development and risk analysis. These processes often […]

Advancing connected vehicles through Automotive Edge and LEAF on AWS: Part 2

Automotive companies such as OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and fleet owners encounter unique challenges in their connected software development and distribution. These challenges include the time-consuming nature of hardware-dependent testing, the high complexity and cost associated with over-the-air (OTA) solutions, and difficulties in sourcing a skilled workforce due to the industry-specific niche of in-vehicle software […]

Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across life science, healthcare, and electronics. More than 60,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From providing products and services that accelerate drug development and manufacturing, well […]

Applying carbon value modeling to achieve net-zero

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that we need to take rapid action to reduce our carbon emissions. To be carbon-neutral by 2050 and keep the Earth’s mean temperature below 2° C of preindustrial levels, the world must curb emissions by 7.6 percent per […]

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 […]

How Grocery Retailers Grow with Hybrid Architecture Best Practices

How Grocery Retailers Grow With Hybrid Architecture Best Practices

Grocery retailers typically operate high-volume, low-margin business models. All the retailer’s resources need to be deployed in a way to maximize productivity and minimize cost. This isn’t a simple ask because the majority of applications in the industry have grown organically over a long period of time. In the UK, the top five grocers—with the […]

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Automate Patching by Replacing Amazon ECS Container Instances

Containerization becoming popular for application lifecycle In the retail industry, more and more developers are using containerization as the primary software lifecycle for applications and services. There are countless benefits to this approach, and it shifts the focus of configuration and runtime management to the container itself. This means that there’s much less configuration and […]

Experimenting with Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS

In this blog post, we experiment with the Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS and demonstrate how to set up a Bitcoin Node on AWS that can be used to send and receive bitcoin from an external wallet. Before we start with the technical setup, let’s go over the potential of this technology. The history and opportunity […]

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Fast Retailing (Part 2): Building an In-House Engineering Organization

AWS Japan G.K. invited Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. executives to speak on the theme of “Digital Reform Initiatives at Fast Retailing: Transformation of Engineering Organizations Utilizing AWS” on September 2, 2021. This post is part 2 of a two-part series where they share key points of their discussion. You won’t want to miss part 1, […]

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Fast Retailing (Part 1): Transforming the Clothes Shopping Experience

AWS Japan G.K. invited Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. executives to speak on the theme of “Digital Reform Initiatives at Fast Retailing: Transformation of Engineering Organizations Utilizing AWS” on September 2, 2021. This post is part 1 of a two-part series where they share the key points of their discussion. Don’t miss part 2 – Building […]