AWS for Industries

Tag: Amazon Elastic Container Service

How AWS is supporting Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)

The concept of purchasing an individual item in multiple installments is not new. Large department stores have offered this for decades in what is called layaway. Layaway is essentially “a purchasing agreement by which a retailer agrees to hold merchandise secured by a deposit until the price is paid in full by the customer” [1]. […]

FinTech FreeAgent increases agility and scalability using AWS fully-managed services

How do you maintain a lean and impactful IT operation when both your customer base and your engineering team are growing rapidly? This was the situation facing FinTech FreeAgent in 2018. In the following blog post we’ll explore how FreeAgent remained agile, while scaling their business, by adopting AWS fully-managed services. The Company U.K.-based FreeAgent […]

FSI Services Spotlight: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate

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 […]

Accelerating subsurface collaboration with streamlined raster image rendering

OAG Analytics software running on AWS accelerates collaboration between geoscientists and data scientists with seamless interaction of 100+ GB geo-encoded raster images in a web browser or mobile device. Problem Large geotagged raster images are frequently used as input data to, and are generated by, hybrid machine learning workflows that quantify subsurface resources like hydrocarbons, copper, […]