AWS for Industries

Category: AWS Fargate

Smiles gains advantages using serverless-first strategy with AWS

Smiles gains advantages using serverless-first strategy with AWS

In this blog post, we delve into the journey of Smiles Fidelidade, a loyalty company affiliated with Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL) Airlines. Smiles has partnerships with over fifty airlines and a customer base exceeding 21.8 million active users. To better serve these customers, the company adopted a serverless-first strategy to improve agility, responsiveness, and the […]

Cloud-driven enterprise transformation at the BMW Group

Cloud-driven enterprise transformation at the BMW Group

In 2020, the BMW Group (BMW) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic collaboration aimed at accelerating BMW’s pace of innovation across all company processes, from vehicle development to after-sales services. In addition to novel use cases, the strategic collaboration addressed the cloud-driven transformation of business applications. In this blog post we discuss key […]

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How payment companies are building SoftPOS solutions on AWS

The needs for dedicated card machines (or readers) tied to point-of-sale (POS) systems have historically restricted certain micro-merchants from adoption of electronic payments. New advancements in payments technology and standards have led to the development of software point-of-sale (SoftPOS). SoftPOS is a software-based solution that transforms near field communication (NFC)-enabled smartphones into a contactless payment […]

Secure Your Genomic Workflows and Data with AWS HealthOmics

AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible AWS service and provides fully-managed compute that helps customers process genomic, proteomic, and other varieties of -omic data securely and at scale in AWS. It supports common workflow definition languages—including WDL, Nextflow, and CWL—and secure access to data stored in Amazon S3 and AWS HealthOmics Storage. In this blog post, we cover […]

FSI Spotlight: Amazon ECR

This blog post discusses five key considerations for using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) in the financial services industry. Considerations include achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of computing environments, automating audits with APIs, and operational access and security. We provide specific guidance and suggested reference architectures for each consideration, which can help you streamline the […]

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 […]

Building a Credit Card Payment Processing Platform on AWS

The Financial Services Industry (FSI) is in the midst of a significant transformation and given the key role digitization plays, electronic payments are at the epicenter of this transformation. Payments are becoming increasingly cashless, and the industry’s role in fostering inclusion has become a significant priority. Innovation and development of digital economies are supported by […]

Xcel Energy migrates CI/CD to AWS Fargate for 60x faster deployments at 82x lower cost

Digitization is transforming the energy industry. However, at Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, legacy technology infrastructure and a reliance on cloud-service contractors were limiting the benefits of digital development. Jared Keith, DevOps lead, joined Xcel Energy in 2019 to help launch new solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and later […]

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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 […]