AWS for Industries

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Geo-based real time marketing for Financial Services on AWS

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]

Airline Resiliency and Recovery during Operational Disruptions with AWS

Introduction We often take for granted how easy it is to fly across the country or world on any given day. Yet, airlines face challenges, like unplanned weather events, wild fires, geopolitical events, logistical problems, and other external factors that impact their regular operations, more often than you’d expect. Such events lead to irregular operations, […]

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How Excelfore Uses the AWS Cloud to Develop and Deliver Continuous Software Updates for Software Defined Vehicles

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 […]

AWS re:Invent 2022 wrap-up: Intuit achieves 99.9% availability and powers 58 billion ML predictions daily on AWS

Industry challenge Every tax season, global financial technology company Intuit faces high demand from over 100 million customers seeking advice for preparing their taxes on its artificial intelligence (AI)–driven expert platform. To uphold its mission of powering prosperity around the world, Intuit transformed its systems and infrastructure using the latest technologies from Amazon Web Services […]

Building a modern, event-driven application for insurance claims processing – Part 2

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 […]

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How Retailers Can Reduce Inventory Shrinkage With Automated Asset Tracking With Calamp and AWS

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 […]

Fleet management solutions for connected farms

Overview The agricultural industry faces a significant challenge supplying a growing population with the healthiest and most ethical foods possible. The world’s population is expected to reach close to 10B people by 2050 and the arable land utilized to feed this population is on the decline. The farming industry has been functioning near peak efficiency […]

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Why Hotel Owners Are Turning to the Cloud To Improve the Guest Experience

I’ve spent most of my career in the travel and hospitality industry. For those of you who have done the same, you know that has meant a lot of ups and downs—9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, and of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these challenges, the accommodations and lodging industry always bounces back. In fact, […]

Industrial Personnel & Hazard Tracking with Amazon Location Service

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 […]

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Capa Airline Leaders’ Summit—an AWS Look at How Digital Transformation Is Reinventing the Customer Experience

I recently attended the CAPA Airline Leaders’ Summit – Airlines in Transition in Manchester, United Kingdom. As noted in my previous blog, I was thrilled to engage with my peers in person again and share my thoughts on how airlines are using digital transformation to prepare for the future and to optimize core operations. In […]