Category: Industries

Across AWS EMEA, retailers have always adapted to shifting consumer trends and buying behaviours, but the global COVID-19 pandemic upended the industry and changed the retail landscape in unprecedented ways. In order to tackle these new disruptions, EMEA retailers are rapidly innovating to continue providing the best customer experiences as they look toward a future […]

Introduction Smarter Material movement is a key component of manufacturing operations. The advent of Industry 4.0 and smart factory adoption around the globe has accelerated this initiative even further. This article discusses a lighthouse use case for forklift fleet tracking and route optimization in a typical manufacturing plant. The blog provides the framework for the […]

The regulatory landscape Compliant record retention is a regulatory expectation for certain financial services institutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have recordkeeping rules that establish the types of records that regulated broker-dealers (BDs) must maintain. SEC and FINRA rules outline specific […]

Customer journeys have become a hot topic in recent years as retailers and brands try to better understand and enhance customer experiences. While this topic has been at the forefront of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies for many years, it’s becoming more and more important for traditional business-to-business (B2B) companies, like CPG brands—especially since many CPGs are […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

The global retail industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption, but leading retailers are demonstrating resilience, tenacity, and a capacity for innovation. We’ve embarked on a series of conversations with executives from AWS Retail Competency Partners to showcase their leadership and innovation in these challenging times. In the latest installment of our AWS Retail Competency Partner Conversations […]

In part two of this blog series, How CPGs and Logistics Vendors Can Optimize Fleet Management with an AWS Data Lake, we explained how fleet management teams for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies can create a highly scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) data lake to gain actionable insights from real-time data, driver safety scores, and […]

Industrial companies are increasingly focused on high-profile cybersecurity incidents caused by ransomware and targeted attacks. Government policymakers and regulators around the world are taking an interest. Corporate boards are asking executives about the strategy to maintain reliable, secure operations, including for their operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). This blog discusses the importance […]

The restaurant industry faced severe challenges during the pandemic. In the United States alone, 110,000 establishments closed. Nearly 2.5 million jobs were erased from pre-pandemic levels. According to the National Restaurant Association sales dropped by $240 billion from an expected $899 billion. Restaurant brands are taking action to preserve their business, improve customer loyalty, and […]

The number of connected cars on the road is set to rise from 125 million in 2020 to over 470 million by 2025. The push for electric vehicles is helping to accelerate a new era of modern vehicle architectures that are more centralized, with fewer distributed electronic control units driven by the introduction of domain […]