Category: Industries

The grocery market was significantly disrupted by the COVID pandemic. Consumers shifted toward online shopping and home deliveries. For example, in 2020 the online share of total grocery in the UK exceeded pre-COVID forecasts for 2024, reaching 8.8% in 2020. International markets experienced similar growth. As restrictions are gradually lifted, some consumer trends are here […]

We have an exciting re:Invent 2021 planned for customers in the travel and hospitality industry. This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) heads back to Las Vegas to celebrate 10 years of AWS re:Invent with five keynotes, 20+ leadership sessions, and over 1,200 breakout and interactive sessions from November 29 through December 3—including several industry-specific sessions […]

Utilities are considering the strategic advantages of modernizing their operational technology (OT) networks to drive business value. OT systems are rich with data that could be used to support simulations, incident response, and business decisions, but the networks they are connected to are often limited by the storage and compute power available onsite. An OT […]

This post was co-written with Roberto Iturralde, Sr. Director of Engineering, and Rajarshi Guha, Director of Data and Computational Sciences at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. In this blog post, we’ll show how Vertex Pharmaceuticals designed a highly […]

The Challenges of Retail Retail has always moved fast and been extremely competitive. Today, consumers expect retailers to move even faster, adjust to new market entrants, and keep up with their ever-changing needs and wants. Only those retailers who are willing to constantly adapt will survive and thrive with company lifespans continuing to shrink. Digitalization […]

Introduction 5G brings a range of new opportunities for telecom operators to provide personalized solutions that meet specific customer requirements. Through a combination of increased bandwidth, virtualized and software-oriented network capabilities, 5G enables the network slicing capability where a single physical infrastructure can be split into multiple network slices. Though network slices share common infrastructure, […]

Introduction Few industries test the limit of database throughput and latency like advertising technology (ad tech). Industry leaders like The Trade Desk run workloads with tens of millions of read and write events per second and single-digit millisecond response times. Growing media consumption in areas like connected TV, over-the-top (OTT) streaming, and retail means that […]

We have an exciting re:Invent 2021 planned for customers in the advertising and marketing technology industry. This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) heads back to Las Vegas to celebrate 10 years of AWS re:Invent with five keynotes, 20+ leadership sessions, and over 1,200 breakout and interactive sessions from November 29 through December 3—including several industry-specific […]

The entire AWS Retail team is super excited to announce that AWS re:Invent 2021 has an in-person option this year. We can’t wait to see you in Las Vegas (or virtually) for our exciting program planned for retailers, with sessions featuring Neiman Marcus, Waitrose, Adidas, and Tapestry. This year’s event will also include over 20 […]

Join us at AWS re:Invent 2021 Celebrating its 10th year, AWS re:Invent 2021 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring content, educational workshops and bootcamps, cool demos, and plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place in Las Vegas, NV from November 29th through December 3rd, and will have an engaging virtual component for […]