AWS for Industries

Introduction This blog summarizes the use of image-based computing patterns in life sciences manufacturing to accelerate the cloud journey and realize predictive plant capabilities as foundational steps toward an “Industry 4.0” vision. AWS computer vision services automate discrete process steps using image analytics. We explore core business challenges and opportunities, target use-cases and AWS architecture […]

On September 1, AWS Partner Innowatts announced a solution to allow energy providers to fully leverage the transformative power of cloud-based, fully scalable data analytics. Leveraging the power and agility of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to process 4.3 billion data points per hour, Innowatts’ SaaS energy analytics platform has been deployed across nine countries and […]

Digital banking growth has accelerated The global banking landscape has experienced significant change over recent years. Customers increasingly expect an always-on, fully digital and personalized experience in their daily life, triggering changing expectations around their banking services. A confluence of industry drivers—heightened customer expectations, new regulations (such PSD2 in EU/UK, and new digital only banking licenses […]

Across AWS EMEA, retailers have always adapted to shifting consumer trends and buying behaviours, but the global COVID-19 pandemic upended the industry and changed the retail landscape in unprecedented ways. In order to tackle these new disruptions, EMEA retailers are rapidly innovating to continue providing the best customer experiences as they look toward a future […]

Introduction Smarter Material movement is a key component of manufacturing operations. The advent of Industry 4.0 and smart factory adoption around the globe has accelerated this initiative even further. This article discusses a lighthouse use case for forklift fleet tracking and route optimization in a typical manufacturing plant. The blog provides the framework for the […]

The regulatory landscape Compliant record retention is a regulatory expectation for certain financial services institutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have recordkeeping rules that establish the types of records that regulated broker-dealers (BDs) must maintain. SEC and FINRA rules outline specific […]

Customer journeys have become a hot topic in recent years as retailers and brands try to better understand and enhance customer experiences. While this topic has been at the forefront of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies for many years, it’s becoming more and more important for traditional business-to-business (B2B) companies, like CPG brands—especially since many CPGs are […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

The global retail industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption, but leading retailers 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 these challenging times. In the latest installment of our AWS Retail Competency Partner Conversations […]

In part two of this blog series, How CPGs and Logistics Vendors Can Optimize Fleet Management with an AWS Data Lake, we explained how fleet management teams for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies can create a highly scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) data lake to gain actionable insights from real-time data, driver safety scores, and […]