AWS for Industries

Category: Management Tools

Using Cloud Technology to Better Protect Power Grids from Physical Threats

When was the last time you thought about how the power stays on? Probably not since you lost power in a storm. We take it for granted that the electricity and natural gas will flow. In today’s world, electricity and gas are a core foundation of the economy and of society, making energy one of […]

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FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring Amazon Rekognition

Welcome to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month, we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be used […]

AWS Private Certificate Authority

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA): achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, automating audits with APIs, and operational access and security respectively. Each of the five areas includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical […]

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Near-real-time power plant optimization for energy trading and dispatching using Amazon Web Services

The declared goal of German-based energy company EWE AG is the systematic use of modern, cloud-based IT solutions in all business areas. Highly available, high-performance, and flexibly scalable IT solutions are essential to maintain competitive advantages in the current and upcoming energy markets. In particular, the short-term power-trading market is associated with considerable challenges. For […]

How Georgia-Pacific (a Koch Industries Company) Improved their Resilience Posture at Scale using AWS Resilience Hub

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, […]

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How businesses can gain ecommerce capabilities to increase sales

Continued growth in ecommerce and digital channels The recent pandemic has resulted in irreversible shifts in customers’ behaviors. Customers’ buying habits have shifted to digital channels and this has resulted in small and medium sized businesses losing revenues and potentially those customers forever. Despite customers returning to physical retail stores, digital channels still top customers’ […]

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Ingest Amazon Retail Data into a Serverless Modern Data Architecture

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which sell a vast number of products through Amazon.com, need scalable, cost-effective, and accessible data visibility into Amazon Seller and Vendor Central. This enables the management of orders, keeping product catalogs up-to-date, accessing inventory insights, and tracking sales, shipments, and payments. Over the past several years, CPG companies have outsourced […]

How Communications Service Providers can leverage Cloud benefits securely

Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]

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Top re:Invent 2022 takeaways for the advertising and marketing technology industry

There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]

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How Machine Learning on AWS can help customers predict the risk of Automotive Part Recalls

This blog focuses on a potential method to use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) machine learning models to help customers predict parts that are likely to become defects or recalls. Specifically, we show how predictions generated from an LSTM may provide customers with early indicators that generally out-perform existing manual processes and can help assist […]