AWS for Retail
Born from Retail, Built for Retailers. Driven by a relentless customer obsession, AWS retail cloud solutions empower you to create exceptional experiences built for the future of retail.
Best Buy is the Latest Retailer to Select the AWS Cloud
Learn why Best Buy selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to accelerate digital performance and advance its mission of enriching lives through technology.
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Customer stories
We work with the industry’s leading retail companies - innovators and pioneers - who expect more from their technology partners and know that great experiences speak louder than words. Learn more about the exciting ways retail companies are leading their customer journeys with AWS.
Leading Cloud Innovators: Amazon.com on AWS
Amazon.com migrated 5,000 databases from Oracle to AWS, cutting its annual database operating costs by more than half and reducing the latency of most critical services by 40 percent. The company leverages Amazon DynamoDB to scale Prime Video and Amazon SageMaker to indentify misplaced inventory.
Neiman Marcus increases new application speed to market by 50%
Neiman Marcus, a well-known name in luxury retail, built a serverless architecture using AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync to speed up app development time and increase speed-to-market.
Morrisons delivers a self-serve contact center in 8 weeks on Amazon Connect
Morrisons, one of the UK’s largest grocery chains, migrated its contact center to Amazon Connect, enabling it to deliver a new customer experience and become operationally self-sufficient.
Petco brings convenience and personalization to pet parents with AWS
See how Petco, with 1,500 locations across the US, is using AWS to build innovative microservices, bringing new features to its website and inventing better ways to help pet parents get the products and services they need.
Zalando tracks business performance in near real-time with AWS
Learn how Zalando, a European online fashion retailer, migrated its SAP systems from an on-premises infrastructure to AWS, and cut IT management time by more than 30%.
Accelerate retail innovation with AWS
Explore retail solution areas to lead your customer’s journey. AWS solutions and services provide value across the entire spectrum of retail IT operations.
Solution areas
Smart Stores
Reinvent the in-store experience, improve in-store operational efficiency, and accelerate innovation with the cloud.
Digital Commerce
Provide compelling digital shopping experiences across channels to attract more customers, increase sales, and flawlessly deliver.
Intelligent Supply Chain
Improve supply chain efficiency and resiliency, despite increasing complexity, with purpose-built analytics, ML, and automation.
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Customer Engagement
Create meaningful customer engagement by using insights to reach, serve, and reward your ideal customers.
Merchandise and Planning
Improve merchandising decisions and execution through enhanced customer insights, demand forecasting, category management, and store implementation.
IT and Core Applications
Drive significant cost savings, faster innovation, and greater agility through the cloud-based platform built for retailers.
Advanced Data Insights
Turn retail data into actionable insights that improve the customer experience as well as margins.
A MACH architecture, which stands for Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless (MACH), gives companies a deeper level of agility—allowing them to deliver new features to their customers at speed. This architecture has spread from ecommerce to store systems and is now fundamentally changing the way retailers assemble commerce solutions. Download the AWS ebook on architectural guidance for building composable MACH solutions on AWS.
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built retail solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.
AWS Retail Competency Partners help customers accelerate their digital transformations across the entire enterprise, including marketing, merchandising, supply chain, store operations, finance, and IT. These AWS Partners have been validated for demonstrating technical proficiency and proven retail customer success in one or more specialized areas.
Explore articles, blogs, videos, and case studies featuring AWS Retail Competency Partners. This resource hub curates content featuring how our top retail partners enable retailers to accelerate their digital transformation across the entire enterprise, including marketing, merchandising, supply chain, store operations, and more.
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