Category: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

A wide range of critical systems architected to run on AWS Cloud use active-active patterns for high availability (HA) across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs) and active-passive patterns for disaster recovery (DR) across multiple AWS Regions. Financial services customers choose to utilize the active-active approach across multiple Regions to achieve near-zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO). As network […]

The convenience of online shopping has exploded in recent years, bringing both new opportunities and challenges. One of the most critical challenges faced by digital commerce companies is scalability—the ability to handle increased demand while maintaining optimal performance. Without scalability, your server resources might get overwhelmed, resulting in slow loading times and frustrating user experiences. […]

The retail industry is facing numerous challenges in today’s dynamic landscape that are forcing them to rethink their strategies. Retailers must keep up with technological advancements, such as generative AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and ecommerce platforms, to remain competitive to retain customers and market share. Retailers face intense competition from both traditional […]

Image-guided therapy solutions provide visual guidance during minimally invasive therapies. However, with interventional systems located within hospitals, enabling faster innovation and a roll-out of new technologies to the field has been a significant challenge. To solve this, Philips has prototyped a large-scale, near-real-time inferencing platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to extend the capabilities of […]

For decades, Financial Services Industry (FSI) organizations have been relying on various messaging standards to send and receive payments. For example, credit card payments leverage ISO 8583, cross-border payments have been relying on ISO 15022, while various depository institutions or market payments operators have developed their own proprietary messaging standards. FSI organizations are adopting an industry-standard […]

Introduction Daily rig reports, such as drilling, completion, and workover reports, are critical to the oil and gas industry because they provide important information about all rig operations (Figure 1) and help maintain operational efficiency and safety. However, manually processing these reports can be a daunting task, especially given the large volumes of drilling and […]

Vodafone Group Plc [VOD] is a global communications company offering a combination of mobile, fixed, TV, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud & security services to consumers and enterprises. With network presence in many countries worldwide, Vodafone serves more than 330M mobile subscribers and over 28M fixed broadband users in Europe. Like many other Telcos, Vodafone has […]

Over the past two decades, the value of software in vehicles has risen dramatically. Software in vehicles we drive has usually been embedded into proprietary hardware. Updating and improving such software was usually done by bringing the vehicle in for service, and then updating the firmware with legacy and proprietary systems. In a software defined […]

In Part 1 of this series, you learned how insurance claims processing makes a good industry use case for event-driven architectures. In Part 2, you dive deeper into the application architecture and learn how each component or domain of the insurance claims processing system uses asynchronous events to coordinate communication. You learn why serverless services are well-suited […]

The importance of asset tracking Every day, Amazon.com receives millions of shipments from suppliers. A purchase order from Amazon to a supplier typically includes a large quantity of shipping containers, or assets, that will be delivered to various Amazon warehouses at different times. To determine if items are lost or misplaced in the large, complicated […]