AWS Competency Program

Leading global airport hospitality services provider Plaza Premium Group (PPG) navigates the challenges of a fragmented airport business ecosystem with a unified digital travel marketplace. It appointed AWS Partner Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to create an innovative reservation and fulfillment system that seamlessly connects the demand and supply side of the entire business ecosystem under one platform. The solution utilizes a microservices-based architecture that leverages a variety of AWS services to optimize speed, security, and scalability. With this strategic approach, PPG efficiently launched the system in around 10 months, enabling the company to expand globally while delivering personalized, airport-specific services, improving efficiency, and owning the 360-degree airport passenger experience.

Apollo Tyres, one of India’s largest tire manufacturers, sought to transform its manufacturing processes with an ambitious digital strategy. The company worked with AWS Partner Deloitte to implement an Internet of Things (IoT) solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), connecting its production equipment to a data lake. Real-time data collection, integration, and advanced analytics through a centralized dashboard have enabled a 9 percent increase in productivity on primary equipment and a 3 percent reduction in energy usage.

Israel-based Logz.io improved its FinOps practice with the help of AWS Partner Finout and was able to allocate 98 percent of its workloads and cut 30 percent of its total spending on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Finout’s platform gives its customers access to granular data on AWS, or any other cloud expenditure. It allows different departments to build simple dashboards to give all parts of the business a better understanding of their cloud spend.

Penn State University built a learning analytics tool using data from its learning management system (LMS), Canvas—developed by AWS Partner Instructure—to provide real-time alerts about student engagement in a course. The tool, named Course Insights, uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to process nearly 2 TB of raw learning activity data every day. The data is made available through Course Insights as a learning tools interoperability (LTI) feature embedded directly in Canvas. It helps instructors track student engagement, provide differentiated student care, and understand how they might improve course delivery and learning outcomes.

Siteimprove worked with SingleStore, an AWS Partner, to implement SingleStoreDB Cloud, a fully managed database solution that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using SingleStoreDB Cloud, Siteimprove has reduced database query return time from minutes to under 1 second, helping its customers analyze website user behavior faster. Additionally, Siteimprove can scale its database on demand to meet growth, and it spends at least 10 percent more time creating high-value business projects.