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Today, the majority of electric residential, commercial, and industrial (RCI) customers receive their electricity over electric distribution circuits called “feeders.” Electric distribution feeders originate at circuit breakers within a distribution substation, and serve many customers, as shown in the following graphic. To increase grid reliability, feeders are often configured to receive electricity from multiple substations, […]

Portland General Electric (PGE) is a regulated, investor-owned utility that has operated out of Portland, Oregon for over 130 years. It supplies electricity to 51 cities and serves approximately 900,000 customers in a service area populated by 2 million Oregonians. In 2019, PGE realized that its on-premises IT systems alone could no longer support its […]

The automotive industry is going under a revolution. On top of the complexity of manufacturing cars and the thousands of systems required to do so, car manufacturers like SEAT,a Spanish automobile manufacturer owned by Volkswagen Group, needed to adapt to support new business opportunities brought by the electrification process, connected car and new types of […]

Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to handle the scale and speed needed for data transfer, storage, and compute capacity as the company prepares to deploy its fleet of next-generation self-driving test trucks in New Mexico and Virginia. Torc will leverage […]

AWS re:Invent 2020, the biggest cloud computing event of the year, kicked off its second wave of free virtual content and announcements on January 12th-14th, 2021. The manufacturing and industrial team brought industry leaders together to discuss how they leverage cloud technology to digitally transform their business with the help of AWS. In this post, […]

No one predicted the COVID-19 pandemic. With stay-at-home mandates and social distancing, people are not going to retail stores as often. Instead, they are buying online, and as a result, consumers are putting a great deal more thought and deliberation into their purchase decisions. Typically, whether consumers are venturing out to a retail store or […]

On November 26, 2017, the Australian Government announced the introduction of the Consumer Data Right (CDR). Governed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the CDR gives consumers greater control over their data, aiming to improve consumers’ ability to compare and switch between products and services. For example, fintechs can use Open Banking data to help […]

Increasingly, industrial customers across asset intensive industries such as manufacturing, energy, mining, transportation, and agriculture are leveraging new digital technologies to drive faster and more informed decisions in their industrial operations. ‘AWS for Industrial’ is a new initiative that features new and existing services and solutions from AWS and our Partners, which are built specifically […]

We have an exciting re:Invent 2020 planned for the advertising and marketing industry. For starters, re:Invent is a free, three-week virtual conference this year—and anyone in the industry can register to learn from over 500 breakout sessions, keynotes, and live content. This year’s conference also features more advertising and marketing industry sessions than any prior […]

Trading Technologies (TT) began its journey in the cloud more than five years ago. On the AWS Blog in 2015, we highlighted their cloud migration in terms of platform transformation and the cultural shifts they and their clients made for a successful conversion. What has TT been up to since that time? “In 2015, we […]