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PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3. Learn more. >>
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) wanted a new way to capture and analyze every play using data-collection and analysis tools. It needed a platform that could quickly ingest data from ballparks across North America, provide enough compute power for real-time analytics, produce results in seconds, and then be shut down during the off season. Amazon CloudFront delivers a scalable solution to serve up the APIs. Learn more. >>
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a leader in nonfiction media, reaching more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 218 countries and territories. Discovery is dedicated to satisfying curiosity through 155 worldwide television networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery, as well as US joint venture networks OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, The Hub and 3net, the first 24-hour 3D network. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools and owns and operates a diversified portfolio of digital media services, including Revision3. Discovery uses Amazon CloudFront for static, dynamic and API delivery. Learn more. >>
Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service which offers its users instant access to more than 16 million songs. The company uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver the Spotify application and software updates to users. Learn more. >>
Sony DADC New Media Solutions (NMS) distributes hundreds of thousands of hours of video content monthly, spins up data analytics, renders solutions in days instead of months, and saves millions of dollars in hardware refresh costs by going all in on AWS. The organization distributes and delivers content to film studios, television broadcasters, and other providers across the globe. The company uses Amazon CloudFront as its global content delivery network (CDN) service to accelerate content delivery to NMS customers. Learn more. >>
NASA, America's space agency, did the first-ever 4K live stream from space during the 2017 NAB show super session using Amazon CloudFront. Watch the recording. >>
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
AWS Case Study: PBS
PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.
Hudl ingests and encodes more than 39 hours of video every minute, boosts video upload speeds by 20 percent, and improves data analysis using AWS. Hudl is a software company that provides a video and analytics platform for coaches and athletes to quickly review game footage to improve team play. The company runs its video platform and data-analysis solutions on the AWS Cloud, using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to provide millions of coaches and sports analysts with near-real-time data feeds to help drive their teams to victory. Learn more. >>
Spuul streams Indian movies and television shows to viewers over the web and generates revenue from paid subscriptions and advertising.The company needed a cost-effective infrastructure that could stream high-resolution video to users in several countries and scale based on the number of movies or TV shows streamed to users. The company chose Amazon CloudFront to deliver video content globally with low latency. Learn more. >>
Media group Northern & Shell is a great example of how traditional publishers have adapted to online models of content delivery. In addition to enjoying print versions of its popular magazines and newspapers—including OK!, Star, and the Daily Express—consumers can also access publications online via their tablets, smartphones, and other devices. More than 20 million adults across the U.K. read Northern & Shell publications each month. The company uses Amazon CloudFront as its content delivery network. Learn more. >>
King builds socially connected, cross-platform games that run equally well on the web and mobile devices, allowing their users to pick up the nearest convenient device and resume playing while maintaining their progression in the games. The goal is to let users connect and play anywhere, at any time, on any device. King uses Amazon CloudFront to serve game content to a world-wide audience. Learn more from Jeff Barr's blog. >>
Finland-based Rovio Entertainment is the entertainment media company behind such games as Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Angry Birds Star Wars I & II, and The Croods. Angry Birds became a sensation a few months after its release, and the games are now some of the most popular of all time with more than 1.7 billion downloads globally. The Toons channel—Rovio’s video streaming service—generates more than 100 million views each month and delivers high-quality family entertainment that can be accessed directly in the game. The company chose Amazon CloudFront for their global content delivery (CDN). Learn more. >>
The Finnish game company Supercell uses AWS to manage the growth of its wildly popular tablet and mobile games Hay Day and Clash of Clans. With more than 8.5 million daily players, Supercell uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver dynamic web content around the world, using edge locations for improved latency. Learn more. >>
Bandai Namco Studios Inc. began as an independent offshoot of Bandai Namco Games Inc. in Japan. The company develops arcade games, platform-specific software, and social and mobile games. The organization is using Amazon CloudFront as its Content Delivery Network (CDN). Learn more. >>
Based in Copenhagen, MovieStar Planet develops and runs interactive social networks aimed at tweens—young people between the ages of 8 and 15. It has 10 million monthly active users and more than 250 million registered users. MovieStar Planet is using Amazon CloudFront for secure, global distribution of content. Learn more. >>
Instacart helps people cross grocery shopping off their to-do lists with just a few clicks. Customers use the Instacart website or app to fill their virtual shopping cart with items from their favorite, local stores and Instacart connects them with shoppers who hand pick the items and deliver them straight to their door. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, Instacart has quickly scaled to over 70 markets nationwide and partnered with retailers across the United States, including popular national chains (Whole Foods Market, Costco, Petco) as well as local, regional grocers (Publix, Wegmans). By combining a personal touch with cutting-edge technology, Instacart offers customers a simple solution to save time and eat fresh food from the most trusted grocery brands. Instacart is the only grocery service that can meet today’s on-demand lifestyle by delivering in as little as one hour. The startup uses Amazon CloudFront for its Content Delivery Network (CDN). “We love the way CloudFront seamlessly integrates with the rest of AWS and allows us to be very efficient in the ways we develop, deploy, and manage our infrastructure." Udi Nir, VP of Engineering, Instacart. Find out more about Instacart: careers.instacart.com
Vivino is the biggest wine community in the world. By simply scanning a wine label, users get information such as the price, where they can buy the wine, and how it is rated by other users. It is the most downloaded mobile wine app in the world, helping people across the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia easily find a wealth of information about wine. Users can buy wine via the site or the app through the firm’s partners. The startup uses Amazon CloudFront for faster user access. Learn more. >>
Brazilian website WebMotors hosts about 200,000 classified ads for new and used vehicles each month. The company uses Amazon CloudFront to transmit content while improving performance by 45%, saving $100,000, and enabling it to scale up to support more than 20 million unique visitors per month. Watch the video to learn more. >>
TicketLeap is a lightweight online ticketing platform used by thousands of event organizers across the US and Canada. Through one unified system, organizers can sell tickets, track sales in real time and get people talking via social media about events before they happen. The company works with events in a wide range of industries, including haunted houses, community theaters, nightlife parties, and student activities events. Learn more. >>
Slack provides a messaging platform that integrates with and unifies a wide range of communications services such as Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Jira, GitHub, MailChimp, Trello, and Stripe. Major brand-name customers include Adobe, Samsung, Intuit, NASA, Dow Jones, eBay, and Expedia. Slack uses Amazon CloudFront for secure API acceleration. Watch the video to learn more. >>
Nextdoor, a private social network for neighborhoods founded in San Francisco in 2010, allows its members to connect and communicate about the things that matter most in their communities. Content ranges from notices of annual block parties to babysitter recommendations to warnings about suspicious activity. The startup uses Amazon CloudFront for fast content delivery and for fast software builds deployements. Watch the keynote at the 2017 AWS Summit. >>
Kik Interactive's messaging service, Kik Messenger, is used by more than 275 million subscribers, mostly in the U.S. Kik also offers developer tools that allow organizations to optimize and distribute their web content to subscribers on its platform. Kik uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver a fast, responsive service experience for subscribers.Learn more. >>
Oasis.com is an online dating service based in Sydney, Australia. The service has more than 9 million members worldwide in markets as diverse as Australia, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom. Oasis.com uses Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront to streamline the management of 57 million member images. Learn more. >>
BrightRoll provides an independent, unified video advertising platform that delivers digital video advertising across the web, mobile devices, and connected TV. The BrightRoll technology platform powers video advertising for more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers, including Kellogg and Wrigley. The company uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver more than 25 billion video inventory requests per month across the four screens. Learn more. >>
InfoSpace, a subsidiary of Blucora, is a leading provider of metasearch and monetization solutions for customers and partners worldwide.The company blends top search results from Google, Yahoo! and other popular search engines to deliver relevant results for customers, such as Publishers Clearing House, Info.com and Iminent, as well as its own branded search sites, which include Dogpile, MetaCrawler, and WebCrawler. InfoSpace uses Amazon CloudFront as its content delivery network (CDN). Learn more. >>
Desire2Learn (D2L) is a software company that makes learning experiences better. The company’s cloud-based platform, Brightspace is used by learners in higher education, K-12, and the enterprise sector, including the Fortune 1000. D2L has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore. D2L uses Amazon CloudFront as its global content delivery network (CDN) for all applications. Learn more. >>
Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to computer programming education. The organization offers coding programs and tutorials on its website and advocates for computer science curriculum with federal and local organizations. Code.org uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver content from AWS edge locations to users, allowing for further reduction of load on front-end servers. Learn more. >>
Intuit is a leading provider of financial management software for consumers, small businesses, and accounting professionals. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for its content delivery network (CDN). Watch the video to learn more. >>
Intuit Mint is a free personal financial management service used by more than six million consumers in the United States and Canada. The service connects a customer’s financial information—such as bank accounts, credit cards and bills—and presents the information in a single place. The organization employs Amazon CloudFront, a global content-delivery network (CDN) service designed to speed the delivery of websites and other web assets, to deliver its content. Learn more. >>
Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing branded pharmaceuticals, devices, and biologic products for patients around the world. The company has migrated more than 400 marketing websites and applications from a traditional hosting provider to AWS. The Amazon CloudFront CDN service was a game-changer, allowing Allergan to migrate from the expensive Akamai CDN. Allergan uses Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network (CDN) to enable strong website performance. Learn more. >>
Canon’s Office Imaging Products division benefits from faster development times, lower costs, and global reach by using AWS to deliver cloud-based services such as Mobile Print. The Office Imaging Products division uses Amazon CloudFront global content delivery network (CDN) to enable better user experience. Watch the video. >>
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the premier NASA center for the robotic exploration of space. JPL has sent a robot to every planet in the solar system. NASA/JPL is also leading the way in the adoption of cloud computing across the federal government. Amazon CloudFront is also used to spread traffic to points of presence around the world, thereby reducing latency for international visitors and improving the overall scalability of their web hosting and live streaming. Watch the video. >>
Mapbox can collect 100 million miles of telemetry data every day using AWS. Mapbox provides an open-source mapping platform for custom designed maps that serve more than 250 billion end users across 11 countries. The company uses Amazon CloudFront for fast content delivery. Watch the video. >>
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