AWS for Industries
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AWS is How: McDonald’s Transforms the Drive-thru Experience
Picking up food at a drive thru provides speed and convenience—but it can sometimes be stressful. When it’s your turn to order, you have to choose from dozens of menu items, trying to find exactly what you want, as the line of hungry drivers grows longer (and more impatient) behind you. What if, when you […]
Overcome CPG OTIF Challenges with Predictive Supply Chain Planning and Execution
AWS and Noodle.ai are on a mission to help Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers solve the on time, in full (OTIF) dilemma that began in 2020. In our recent blog, How Retail/CPG Can Improve On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) Deliveries, we introduced the concept of OTIF and why it matters to CPGs. As put by Michael Connor, […]
Co-op UK Scales Grocery Ecommerce Pickup and Delivery with Bringg and Naveo Commerce
Consumers are increasingly moving between physical and digital stores. It’s now mission-critical for retailers to deliver a seamless, unified, omnichannel experience to customers. The UK is one of the world’s most advanced digital markets, with 15% ecommerce penetration in grocery alone. Wanting to gain a foothold with digital consumers, Co-op, a leading food convenience retailer […]
How Advizzo Empowers Utility Consumer Savings on AWS
This blog post is authored by AWS partner Advizzo. Since 2015, Advizzo’s behavioral science software and solutions have been empowering electricity, gas, and water customers around the globe to reduce their water and energy consumption and contribute to preserving the world’s natural resources. Today, over 1 million households use Advizzo’s solutions, powered by Amazon Web […]
Five’s Automated Driving Systems (ADS) Testing Platform on AWS
Five was founded in Cambridge, England in 2015 to build a complete autonomous vehicle system. Its team of computer scientists, engineers, and roboticists built a Level 4 urban automated driving system which was demonstrated in London in 2019. Five took the lessons from that work and created a platform for the development and safety assurance […]
Banking Apps Built on AWS: A Deep Dive into SmartStream’s SaaS Architecture
The number of software companies building applications for the financial services industry (FSI) continues to grow. These fintech companies face challenges such as ensuring that their applications stay compliant with banking regulations while rapidly delivering new features for their clients. FSI software vendors have therefore been moving to the cloud to meet their agility, security, […]
Applying the AWS Shared Responsibility Model to your GxP Solution
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model is often discussed as a topic to illustrate AWS security principles, but you can also apply it to compliance-related activities such as GxP. The shared model provides constructive mechanisms to illustrate the separation of tasks between AWS and the customer. AWS is responsible for the security and compliance of the […]
Recapping re:Invent: What’s New in Retail
AWS re:Invent 2020, our annual conference for AWS leaders to share the latest advances in AWS technologies, has been a huge success so far. For three weeks, we’ve heard about cutting-edge innovations from keynote speakers, and in this blog, I would like to discuss some of the latest announcements that are most relevant to the […]
Trading system functionality made possible by the cloud – Insights from Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (TT) began its journey in the cloud more than five years ago. On the AWS Blog in 2015, we highlighted their cloud migration in terms of platform transformation and the cultural shifts they and their clients made for a successful conversion. What has TT been up to since that time? “In 2015, we […]
PathSpot: Enabling handwashing hygiene, innovation, and insights
PathSpot provides the travel and hospitality industry a hygiene management system designed to protect businesses and their customers from contaminants and ensure effective and frequent handwashing. PathSpot has raised over $10M in venture funding to date, most recently a $6.5M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures. PathSpot has been featured as one of […]