AWS for Industries
Category: AWS Transit Gateway
Automated networking with shared VPCs at Swisscom
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, […]
How Aquis created a cloud-native exchange to meet the highest regulatory requirements on AWS
Aquis Stock Exchange The Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE), based in the United Kingdom, is a subsidiary of Aquis Exchange PLC, which operates the seventh-largest pan-European Equities exchange group by daily average volume. Focusing on growth companies, AQSE operates its own markets and sells technology solutions to other exchange operators. In 2023, AQSE became the world’s […]
Deploy infrastructure for telecom workloads in an air-gapped AWS environment
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 […]
Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation
Introduction This three-part series provides guidance on establishing a platform, or Telco Cloud, for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) migrating Telecommunications service provider (Telco) workloads to AWS. Sharing experiences from our Telco users’ journeys to the cloud, we cover the key operational and technical considerations when migrating complex telco workloads such as Core Networks, Radio Access […]
Achieve multipath load balancing in Amazon VPC using Virtual IPs
Many Telco use cases use Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) for traffic distribution, enhancing high availability (HA), resiliency, and fast failover. AWS Direct Connect and AWS Transit Gateways currently support ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing) specifically for connections from on-premises environments to the AWS cloud. However, within an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), only a single destination can […]
Low latency cloud-native exchanges
Large capital market infrastructure providers (specifically exchanges) around the world use the cloud to accelerate their innovation and modernization journey. Trading workloads present unique challenges, including low latency responses, low jitter network performance, and ensuring fairness. With different services and features, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enable exchanges to develop use cases built with cloud-native services […]
A Cloud-Native Environment for Distributed Automotive Software Development
Car drivers have become users that expect new and updatable features and a digital user experience in addition to driving comfort and safety. OEMs are thus committed to lay the foundations for faster innovation through a concept called Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV). This blog post demonstrates an example of how ETAS and AWS collaborate on cloud-native […]
How to Network Your Smart Store to AWS
The emergence of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Smart Store solutions has opened up a new world of possibilities for retailers. In order to take full advantage of these solutions, retailers need to optimize their network infrastructure. As retailers increasingly digitize their operations and move more services to the cloud, security and network infrastructure become major […]
LTE and 5G Data Network Breakout Designs on AWS
When Communication Service Providers (CSP) deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 5G network functions on AWS, they are presented with different options for user plane data network breakout through the SGi (for LTE) or N6 (for 5G) interface. 3GPP defines SGi Interface as the reference point between the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway – S-GW […]
How Grocery Retailers Grow With Hybrid Architecture Best Practices
Grocery retailers typically operate high-volume, low-margin business models. All the retailer’s resources need to be deployed in a way to maximize productivity and minimize cost. This isn’t a simple ask because the majority of applications in the industry have grown organically over a long period of time. In the UK, the top five grocers—with the […]