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Over the past year the industry has accelerated in an ecosystem approach to banking, and more broadly with financial services. Accenture estimates $416b in banking revenues is at stake as we shift to an open data economy. Although banks embarked on this journey with Open Banking as a catalyst, many have embraced the augmentation of […]

Customer habits have been changing over the last decade, with customers expecting frictionless and instant access to their banking needs. Banking customers have prioritized digital self-service via mobile and web over branch or phone banking, with the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerating this trend. Although digital channels are rising in importance, the ability to converge channels […]

On the journey to the Cloud, it’s essential to maintain the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance for Healthcare organizations. However, your IT security team may lack insights on the HIPAA compliance status in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. They may not be certain how to efficiently identify non-compliant configurations and settings. […]

In this blog we will highlight a presentation we gave at re:Invent 2021: Creating interoperable real-time clinical applications.  We will demonstrate how to create a clinical voice driven application using Amazon HealthLake to store data in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) R4. Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service offering healthcare and life sciences companies a […]

Global financial services markets are preparing to kick off the transformational migration to the new messaging standard, ISO20022. The coexistence period defined by SWIFT starts in November 2022. Since the publication of AWS’s guidance for migrating the SWIFT client connectivity stack to cloud, we have seen all sizes of financial services institutions and corporate treasuries […]

Life sciences companies are rethinking patient engagement and legacy workflow processes in clinical trials due to low enrollment numbers and concerns around data quality. Voice and Chatbot solutions like Alexa and Amazon Lex, a fully managed conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service, can improve patient experience and increase patient engagement. An estimated 48% of clinical trials […]

Introduction Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is an architecture concept in the telecom industry to enforce state-of-the-art technologies onto servers, network devices, and storage, in order to virtualize Network Functions (NFs). These days, multiple service providers are conceiving their virtual NFs (VNFs) in AWS, and this trend is accelerating further with containerized NFs (CNFs) and 5G. […]

Introduction Magma is an open-source, flexible, and extendable mobile core network solution. It is designed to be 3GPP generation and access network agnostic. Magma supports many radio technologies, such as LTE, 5G, and WiFi, and it enables use cases like mobile private networks, fixed wireless access, or mobile edge computing. It is governed by the […]

The Transparency in Coverage Rule (TCR) in the United States requires health insurers (payors) disclose information on their pricing agreements with healthcare providers. There are two phases to this regulation: The implementation of Phase 1, which must be complete by July 1, 2022, requires that payors publish machine-readable files (JSON, XML, or Parquet) publicly for each […]

Virtual Network Interfaces (VNI) on Snowball Edge (SBE) are used for connecting your EC2 instances to your local area network (LAN). One can think of a VNI as a 1:1 entry in a NAT table (Network Address Translation). The VNI is associated to an instance (and its corresponding private IP address). Let’s take an example […]