Category: Industries

The FAIR data principles were first proposed in a seminal paper published in 2016 in the Journal Scientific Data. It was written by a group of international experts in data management and curation. To address the challenges that the research community is facing, they proposed FAIR Principles as a framework for making data more discoverable, […]

Controllable distributed energy resources (DERs) are key to the successful transition to a zero-carbon grid. Industry context Distributed energy resources (DERs) are controllable energy assets that can generate, store, or consume energy. Examples of DERs are thermostats, heat pumps, batteries, boilers, electric vehicles (EVs), smart inverters, and so on. The ability to control DERs plays […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with a vast majority of consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands worldwide—from the digital-native food and beverage brands to the largest fashion and apparel conglomerates. For these firms, integrated data and analytics has been a top investment priority for many years. This trend is only accelerating by the increasing availability of […]

Introduction Georgia-Pacific embarked on a cloud application modernization and resiliency improvement journey. In this blog post, we look at how Georgia-Pacific transitioned their Disaster Recovery (DR) processes from largely a manual effort to a more automated one, improving their application resiliency at scale in AWS using AWS Resilience Hub. About Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, […]

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 […]

In 2022, more than 30 percent of travel and hospitality companies started their digital transformation by migrating legacy systems and applications to AWS. However, many customers tell us that they still grapple with the decision of which workloads and applications to prioritize during this migration journey. To address this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has published […]

Introduction Industrial companies are actively pursuing strategic advantages of modernizing their operational technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) to drive business value, but are limited by fixed storage and compute capacity available onsite. Data scientists and process engineering leaders recognize the need to leverage this operational data to gain insights, optimize processes, and enhance business […]

Coriell Life Sciences uses the AWS Cloud to provide patients, physicians, and pharmacists insight into the safest, most effective medications based on an individual’s DNA and other factors. More than 131 million people—66% of all adults in the United States—use prescription medicines to manage health conditions, according to Georgetown’s Health Policy Institute. Utilization is highest […]

AWS for Retail is proud to have sponsored MACH Two, a retail conference that took place June 12-14 in Amsterdam. MACH Two is an executive thought leadership forum for brands and retailers with a strategy to understand the benefits of composability or looking to learn more about the next big technological shift. MACH is an architectural […]

Guidance for RFID Store Inventory Management on AWS The need for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is growing. Retailers face many challenges in managing their inventory, including out-of-stock situations, misplaced items, and shrinkage. These challenges can impact the bottom line and hurt the customer experience. To address these issues, retailers are increasingly turning to RFID technologies. […]