Category: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

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 […]

Introduction Hot work is defined as any operation that could be an origin of ignition in an environment with flammable materials. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), hot work is one of the most common causes of worker death. It is also leading cause of industrial fires. A hot work […]

In our previous post How to Integrate Your Headless Commerce Retail Store With Commercetools—Part 1, we walked you through the process to integrate an ecommerce store front end with a backend retail microservice from the commercetools solution using commercetools’s APIs. Built in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, commercetools provides a set of flexible REST […]

In our previous blog, How to build a dynamic supply chain platform: a primer, we discussed how companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a dynamic supply chain that can proactively react to events and also provide complete visibility, communication, and data transfer. By collecting and analyzing near-real-time supply chain data, companies can […]

AWS Japan G.K. invited Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. executives to speak on the theme of “Digital Reform Initiatives at Fast Retailing: Transformation of Engineering Organizations Utilizing AWS” on September 2, 2021. This post is part 2 of a two-part series where they share key points of their discussion. You won’t want to miss part 1, […]