Category: Retail

Retailers face increasing pressure to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining disciplined capital investment. We see three consistent themes emerging from conversations with customers: A need to consolidate expensive store servers, a desire to establish a unified architecture across cloud and edge, and an urgency to support advanced in-store applications. Businesses seek to transform their stores […]

The AWS Retail & Consumer Goods Symposium, held on June 24th in London, brought together influential leaders and innovators to address the transformative challenges facing the sector. Set against a backdrop of evolving consumer behaviors and technological advancement—all increasingly influenced by AI—the symposium provided crucial insights into how retailers and brands can navigate the current […]

Lotte Homeshopping is a major South Korean retailer that was faced with an increasingly complex quality assurance (QA) process. Their fast-paced fashion division struggled with product approvals that required manual coordination across multiple channels. Partner questions went unanswered for too long, while QA agents struggled to keep up with repetitive inquiries. These mounting challenges created […]

Companies across industries aim to deliver personalized customer experiences and optimized advertising campaigns by resolving customer identities. However, being able to reliably match records across fragmented, inconsistent, and often messy datasets can be hard and complicated. Organizations using traditional rule-based matching techniques to help match exact records often miss valuable connections due to slight variations […]

Introduction The luxury e-commerce landscape demands meticulous attention to detail in product presentation. That expectation is likely to intensify as the sector continues to grow over the next decade. According to FortuneBusinessInsights.com, the global luxury goods market size is anticipated to grow to USD 392.40 billion by 2030. Every pattern, from subtle pinstripes to elaborate […]

With over 100 clubs globally, premium fitness company Equinox requires scalable, repeatable infrastructure that can support its integrated digital and physical experiences. Its connected experiences, which include competitive cycling classes, are a key offering that motivates its members to track and meet their fitness goals in a mobile app. However, delivering fitness insights in near […]

The second annual Nation Retail Federation Asia Pacific (NRF APAC) conference in Singapore proved to be an extraordinary gathering of retail innovation and insights. Bringing together over 10,000 attendees from 50 countries and almost 2,000 brands, this year’s event showcased the unlimited potential of retail in a region known for its diverse consumer needs, digital […]

Many retail customers depend on successful peak events to drive significant revenue. Peak events include promotional sales days like Amazon Prime Day, holiday sales, and the globally recognized Black Friday-Cyber Monday period. According to the National Retail Federation, in 2023, a record 200.4 million consumers shopped over the five-day holiday weekend from Thanksgiving Day through […]

We are thrilled to be joining the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show: Asia Pacific for its second year from June 3-5, 2025 in Singapore. This year’s theme, ‘Retail Unlimited,’ explores how technology can transform industries and elevate shopping experiences at every touchpoint. Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon teams, and AWS Industry Partners, […]

This post is co-written with Dino Padilla, Sr. Cloud Engineer, Skechers USA, and Gabriel Sandoval, Sr. Manager Cloud Platforms & GenAI, Skechers USA In early 2024, global footwear leader Skechers USA continued its cloud transformation journey. To address the infrastructure challenges that could threaten its growth, Skechers redesigned its AWS Cloud network. This blog post […]