AWS for Industries

3 Days to Transform Financial Services Organizational Structures

AWS developed the Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) to help customers accelerate their journey to AWS. This transformation methodology uses hands-on, agile, and immersive interactions to build cloud capabilities. Through EBA, customers accelerate business value by removing friction points, building cross-functional teams, and enabling two-way door decisions. Regulatory demands often define financial services’ organizational structure in a […]

AWS re:Invent 2022 wrap up: Capital One optimizes for productivity, efficiency, and security on AWS

The cloud presents massive opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation. For Capital One, however, digital transformation is a complex task due to the financial services industry’s strict security and compliance requirements. Financial institutions often seek effective strategies to adopt cloud technologies while remaining secure and compliant. Capital One’s solution In 2020, Capital […]

Service and Signal Layer separation in Zonal architecture

How Excelfore Uses the AWS Cloud to Develop and Deliver Continuous Software Updates for Software Defined Vehicles

Over the past two decades, the value of software in vehicles has risen dramatically. Software in vehicles we drive has usually been embedded into proprietary hardware. Updating and improving such software was usually done by bringing the vehicle in for service, and then updating the firmware with legacy and proprietary systems. In a software defined […]

FSI Services Spotlight: AWS Backup

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be […]

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How to solve the digital twin challenge using building blocks from MongoDB on AWS

In the first blog – Digital Twin Data Middleware with AWS and MongoDB – we discussed the business implications of the digital twin challenge and how MongoDB and AWS are well positioned to solve them. In this blog, we’ll dive into technical aspects of solving the digital twin challenge. That is, showing you how MongoDB […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon RDS: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code to help streamline service […]

Acxiom’s journey on R-based machine learning models (propensity scores) at scale with trillions of outputs

Introduction Acxiom partners with the world’s leading brands to create customer intelligence, facilitating data-driven marketing experiences that generate value for customers and for brands. As experts in identity, ethical use of data, cloud-first customer-data management, and analytics solutions, Acxiom makes the complex marketing system work, applying customer intelligence wherever brands and customers meet. By helping […]

Great MACH runs on AWS

Great MACH runs on AWS

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, retailers need to adopt a modern tech stack that can deliver fast and seamless experiences to customers. To achieve this, many retailers are turning to MACH (microservices-based, API-first, cloud-native SaaS, and headless) architecture. MACH architecture is a set of principles that provides a flexible and scalable way to design and […]

Xcel Energy migrates CI/CD to AWS Fargate for 60x faster deployments at 82x lower cost

Digitization is transforming the energy industry. However, at Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, legacy technology infrastructure and a reliance on cloud-service contractors were limiting the benefits of digital development. Jared Keith, DevOps lead, joined Xcel Energy in 2019 to help launch new solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and later […]

Firework simplifies live ecommerce with Amazon IVS

Firework simplifies live ecommerce with Amazon IVS

Shoppable video startup uses managed live streaming service for stability at scale Consumer behaviors and expectations have fundamentally changed. In response, retailers are using breakthrough technologies like live stream video to better connect with customers and transform the way that shoppers engage with their favorite brands. When implemented well, these videos can also be monetized, […]