AWS for Industries

The restaurant industry faced severe challenges during the pandemic. In the United States alone, 110,000 establishments closed. Nearly 2.5 million jobs were erased from pre-pandemic levels. According to the National Restaurant Association sales dropped by $240 billion from an expected $899 billion. Restaurant brands are taking action to preserve their business, improve customer loyalty, and […]

The number of connected cars on the road is set to rise from 125 million in 2020 to over 470 million by 2025. The push for electric vehicles is helping to accelerate a new era of modern vehicle architectures that are more centralized, with fewer distributed electronic control units driven by the introduction of domain […]

In this blog post, I’ll share a solution for automating the process of capturing your customers’ interests in a product category so you can tailor your marketing messages. I use a retail example to demonstrate how you can use AWS services to build sophisticated processes that generate relevant communications to your customers. This solution is […]

For almost a decade, the partnership between SiteMinder and AWS has helped create innovative, secure products for tens of thousands of accommodation businesses around the world. David Peller, Managing Director of AWS Travel and Hospitality, recently sat down (virtually) with the SiteMinder’s cofounder and CTO, Mike Rogers, to chat about the last 18 months, the […]

As retailers around the world are experiencing unprecedented disruption, industry leaders are demonstrating resilience, tenacity, and a capacity for innovation. We’ve embarked on a series of conversations with executives from AWS Retail Competency Partners to showcase their leadership and innovation in challenging times. In the latest installment of our AWS Retail Competency Partner Conversations blog […]

The retail landscape has seen enormous change over the last year. Retailers must innovate fast or risk obsolescence. Many are developing digital commerce platforms, expanding their fulfillment options, and working hard to improve customer experiences to match new consumer expectations. It all starts with a move to the cloud. AWS recently held a roundtable discussion […]

The global energy and utilities industry is often viewed as a monolithic system, but it is very important to understand that the systems in each region, nation, and state have their own underlying characteristics. Around the world, there are 57 overseas territories and dependencies and 193 nation-states. Between each of these are numerous electric systems […]

Introduction In remote upstream oil and gas facilities, such as well pads, energy companies frequently have various service contractors bringing in items, performing services, and removing items from the site. These facilities most often do not have permanent staff on location. It can be challenging for operators to know who is accessing the facilities. For […]

Noah Glass, founder and CEO of Olo, joins Steven M. Elinson, AWS Head of Worldwide Restaurants and Food Services, to discuss how he started and then took his company public through an initial public offering (IPO). Olo, short for Online Ordering, became a lifeline during the recent disruption of the restaurant industry. Glass founded the […]

Extracting important information from unstructured medical texts (e.g., transcribed physician notes) is a key step in understanding the content of such documents, yet many healthcare and life sciences organizations struggle with this. Manually extracting the data is a time-consuming process, while automated rule-based attempts to extract the data don’t capture the full story as they […]