AWS for Industries

Electricity provider EDF in the UK (EDF) is preparing its business for growth. The company has one of the largest market shares for providing electricity to businesses in the United Kingdom, and it continues to expand its offerings. In 2019, EDF launched an initiative to modernize the IT supporting its business solutions. Its infrastructure needed […]

Crypto currencies started as an experiment in 2008, initially supported by global developer communities and retail traders. They have since expanded into a multi-billion dollar industry, traded on numerous Crypto exchanges with growing amounts of institutional interest. Many of these exchanges have been built on AWS, resulting in the opportunity for High Frequency Traders (HFTs) […]

Telco 5G and IMS container based workloads utilize Multus CNI to achieve traffic and routing separation and packet acceleration. Multus container network interface plugin enables Kubernetes pods to attach to multiple interfaces and networks. Multus CNI being a “Meta-plugin”, achieves this by invoking other CNIs, such as VPC CNI (default CNI in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]

Few companies break the mold in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Even fewer are successful year after year, especially with global disruptions pressuring the industry for nearly three years and counting. What’s the secret to success? Recently, three leading industry analyst firms—Forrester, Gartner, and International Data Corporation (IDC)—have weighed in on this topic, citing Amazon Web […]

There are an estimated 100 million connected vehicles on the road worldwide today, and are expected to reach 400 million by 2025. The buying decision by customers towards connected vehicles is and will become increasingly dependent on software functionality, and integration into a person’s digital lifestyle. This will enable customers access to a new level […]

Optimizing spending in the advertising and marketing industry—whether that means delivering more personalized campaigns to customers or attracting higher-quality users—is always an iterative process. Data scientists and data engineers are constantly maneuvering through advertising, marketing, and sales data to measure effectiveness and uncover insights that improve the way their companies connect with consumers. To help […]

In previous posts we’ve presented scenarios where Amazon FinSpace data analysis capabilities are used to address different use cases. For these analyses we used data available on AWS Data Exchange and on third-party data sources. Some examples of analysis are what-if scenarios of trading strategies, ESG portfolio optimization, and Analyzing petabytes of trade and quote […]

The newest advanced metric tackles the hidden dynamics of punt and kickoff returns. The NFL Next Gen Stats team is here to give us the inside scoop. We have all witnessed a returner getting tackled a nanosecond after receiving a punt or kickoff. Holding onto the ball, let alone gaining a chunk of yardage, is a […]

In this post, get a behind-the-scenes look from the Amazon Machine Learning (ML) Solutions Lab team on how the new Expected Return Yards stat from NFL Next Gen Stats was developed. Give us the main idea behind Expected Return Yards and how it came together. In collaboration with AWS over the last five years, the […]

In this series, you’ll learn to build a modern insurance claims processing application on AWS. You’ll see an application that uses an event-driven architecture to loosely couple the applications’ components. This application is built with Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and more. You’ll also learn why an event-driven architecture and serverless […]