Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

The emerging regulatory landscape in Europe and the UK  The European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will introduce new regulatory requirements that will impact how financial services institutions in the EU work with cloud providers and other third parties. In parallel, the Bank of England (BoE), the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), including achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and operational access and security. Each of the five areas will include specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, […]

Now more than ever, consumers want to discover and purchase their favorite products online. To meet this increased demand, retailers need to improve the performance of their ecommerce applications. In this blog post, we’ll guide web developers through the process of integrating commercetools’ Merchant Center with AWS Lambda to develop a serverless ecommerce workflow. Solution […]

Introduction First-time-right design is critical to cutting costs and reducing time to market, especially in today’s customized, high-demand environment. If you’re a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designer or involved in PCB manufacturing, keep reading to learn more about Siemens PCBflow. PCBflow is a new cloud offering in the PCB Design for Manufacturing (DFM) domain, can […]

Many consumer packaged goods (CPGs) companies have been eyeing a move into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space as a way to boost sales, increase market share, and get closer to consumers. This shift to a DTC model means that most CPGs need to collect first-party data and, in many cases, overhaul or transform their website and […]

Picking up food at a drive thru provides speed and convenience—but it can sometimes be stressful. When it’s your turn to order, you have to choose from dozens of menu items, trying to find exactly what you want, as the line of hungry drivers grows longer (and more impatient) behind you. What if, when you […]

Consumers are increasingly moving between physical and digital stores. It’s now mission-critical for retailers to deliver a seamless, unified, omnichannel experience to customers. The UK is one of the world’s most advanced digital markets, with 15% ecommerce penetration in grocery alone. Wanting to gain a foothold with digital consumers, Co-op, a leading food convenience retailer […]

Five was founded in Cambridge, England in 2015 to build a complete autonomous vehicle system. Its team of computer scientists, engineers, and roboticists built a Level 4 urban automated driving system which was demonstrated in London in 2019. Five took the lessons from that work and created a platform for the development and safety assurance […]

This is a contributed blog post from Siddahartha Sachdeva, CEO of AWS partner Innowatts. The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming energy consumption and usage patterns. During the pandemic, commercial energy usage slumped 30%, whereas residential demand saw significant increase. These changes surface and illuminate challenges to utilities and regulators. As utilities manage the changing energy landscape, […]

In our last blog, How Cloud-based Data Mesh Technology Can Enable Financial Regulatory Data Collection, we set out an approach whereby financial institutions can share data with regulators in a manner that enables ongoing operational flexibility and the evolution of regulators’ data requirements. By building a regulatory data mesh from AWS Data Exchange nodes, participants […]