Category: AWS CloudFormation

Legacy mainframe systems remain the backbone of many telecommunications (telco) operators, despite rapid technological evolution. These systems, combining proprietary and vendor-developed applications, remain critical for handling bulk data processing and large-scale transactions. These systems typically handle critical Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) workloads, such as the highly transactional processes of rating, […]

How do enterprises efficiently manage networking across hundreds of cloud accounts while maintaining security, reducing costs, and minimizing operational overhead? As organizations such as Swisscom adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS), they face the complex challenge of implementing scalable, automated networking solutions that break away from traditional high-touch, manual approaches. When Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecom provider, […]

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that provides businesses with the tools to power their online and in person payments, embedded financial services, and custom revenue models. In this fast-paced digital world, customer payment flows require automated workflows to kick off processes such as fulfilling orders after a successful payment, granting user access after a […]

Overview Cloud solutions for enterprise applications are focused on creating a virtualized infrastructure to enable the management of various functions necessary to deliver services. With cloud computing, these functions become decoupled from the hardware and are operated from a horizontal platform as cloud-native or virtual functions. This is a unified and standardized platform that supports […]

Learn how to execute Monte Carlo Simulations and Machine Learning data processing at any scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map and AWS Lambda. Organizations across the financial services industry including those providing insurance products rely on Monte Carlo simulations and machine learning feature engineering processes for product development and risk analysis. These processes often […]

Introduction In “Blog 1 – Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” we covered the importance of establishing a strong cloud foundation on AWS, and we identified some of the key capabilities that are different or need to be adapted for Telco use cases. Specifically, we can see that from […]

Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD) is an omnichannel-platform company headquartered in Plano, Texas. It’s committed to providing innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address consumers’ evolving needs and aspirations. Upbound’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Rent-A-Center® and Acima®, which facilitate consumer transactions across various store-based and digital retail channels. Upbound has […]

Our Global Infrastructure spans 108 Availability Zones (AZs) within 34 geographic AWS Regions around the world at the time of writing. To provide mobile apps with ultra-low latency access to the AWS cloud, we collaborate with telecom operators globally to offer AWS Wavelength. AWS Wavelength Zones integrate AWS compute and storage services within mobile networks. […]

AWS for Automotive offers Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) solutions, helping to address the needs of the automotive industry to handle increasing software complexity, improve cost control, and enhance product quality. AWS is innovating on SDV solutions that include the ability to deploy virtualized automotive hardware and software stacks on AWS. This includes building and deploying Google’s […]

To plan wireless networks effectively, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must analyze the viability of potential cell sites. This includes identifying potential facilities, obstructions, sources of interference, etc. Traditionally, capturing this information required a truck roll, which can be expensive, especially at scale. Harnessing the power of Machine Learning (ML) and computer vision to analyze site […]