Category: Thought Leadership

This has been an unprecedented few months for the travel and hospitality industry: travelers and guests, providers and suppliers, employees and stakeholders alike. From almost every part of the world, we’ve heard stories from customers laser-focused on the safety and well-being of their guests and ‘above and beyond’ efforts to repatriate travelers. We’ve supported the […]

As Jeff Bezos stated in Amazon’s latest letter to shareholders, “The ability for organizations to access scalable, dependable, and highly secure computing power…is critical in this situation.” This is particularly true for travel and hospitality companies. Whenever disruption occurs, travel and hospitality companies’ attention turns to dealing with the immediate impact of a rapidly changing, […]

The Power & Utilities industry has reached an inflection point in digitization as early adopters give way to early majority growth. Our utility customers have shared four trends that have accelerated their digitization plans enabled by cloud technology and services. Sustainability is imperative Utility stakeholders including regulators, customers, and investors are pressuring utilities to declare […]

Previously, we have discussed how organizations have been stabilizing operations by aggressively optimizing costs, leveraging technology to support remote working, contact centers and ensuring both workforces and customers are safe. This is a complex and involved situation: ensuring maintaining a viable business, whilst balancing people and services, especially without a clear view of how and […]

Download a Free Copy It’s not news that the global energy sector is facing its biggest challenge in recent history, driven by simultaneous demand and supply shocks that have driven the cost of energy to its lowest levels in history. Leaders in the energy industry, regardless of the company’s size or position in the value […]

COVID-19 has upended the way consumers interact with their financial institutions on an unprecedented scale and speed as detailed in the blog post authored by Scott Mullins, Managing Director of Worldwide Financial Services Business & Market Development for AWS, and the payments industry is no exception. The global pandemic has accelerated the growth of digital […]

It’s been said that challenges shouldn’t paralyze you but help discover who you are. We’ve seen time and again how immense challenges bring about incredible innovation. That is especially true today. Around the globe, travel and hospitality companies are taking advantage of the flexibility of the AWS Cloud to innovate quickly and meet the needs […]

During my career in the restaurant business, technology went from being a standalone, assembly-language based point-of-sale system with limited functionality and importance to a highly integrated, mission-critical ecosystem. Looking back, much of the timing and nature of this evolution was not predictable, but there were certain clear trends that informed pre-emptive bets. These in turn, […]

As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, we place tremendous value and focus on the well-being and safety of our employees, partners, and customers. The Amazon Day One Blog is being updated regularly on all the ways Amazon is working to address this crisis. While the impact has been felt by everyone and across […]

As the financial services industry accelerates cloud adoption, it was refreshing to hear directly from David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO, on the keynote stage last year at AWS’s annual conference re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Cloud services allow Goldman Sachs to simplify financial services technology in a safe, secure, and responsible manner. (For more on […]