Resources for Small and Medium Businesses

In this report, Gartner provides ratings for six business categories: Product/Service, Support/Account Management, Pricing Structure, Technology/Methodology, Strategy, and Corporate Viability. In this report, discover how AWS scored across the six categories, including Strong ratings in Product/Service and Technology/Methodology. Read this report to: - Understand the overall health and vitality of Amazon and AWS businesses, and the benefits of engaging with AWS. - Review Amazon’s latest growth numbers and see why the growth is a reflection of the company’s ability to meet customers’ needs. - See how using AWS’s ARM-based Graviton2 processor to power AWS’s PaaS offerings helps customers optimize their cloud spend. - Plan for the future with deep analysis of current AWS product offerings and recommendations for cloud strategies going forward.

Join a free virtual event on Wednesday, May 31 to learn from business leaders and AWS experts on how to use the power of AI/ML to accelerate growth, increase agility, and drive innovation. Get actionable insights and practical advice on how AI/ML can help you achieve your business goals. Hear real-life examples from peers who have successfully navigated business challenges with AI/ML.

 

Finance (FPF) to secure sensitive information and adhere to Polish and EU financial regulations required to launch the app. WealthSeed can now scale to meet growing demand and focus on product development to build a foundation for global growth.

Arneg SpA (Arneg) needed to evolve beyond a reactive customer service model. The company, a global leader in commercial refrigeration manufacturing, sought a failure-tolerant, scalable solution to improve its existing services and integrate with new services as its offerings expanded. With AWS’s cloud resiliency, Arneg has benefited from faster recovery, better infrastructure, and the ability to predict maintenance needs with more than 80 percent accuracy, greatly reducing refrigeration downtime for the company’s global customers.

Travelstart is one of Africa’s largest travel booking websites. Using AWS, the company is able to expand into new regions, handle high-traffic periods with ease and reduce operational costs by 43%.

Bru Textiles has been a part of the fabric of industrial life in Belgium for 26 years, since its founding by two brothers with a family background in textiles. When the business needed to find better ways to grow and offer new services, they turned to AWS. With cloud adoption, the company has increased its resiliency, improved its data protection, and benefited from a more reliable disaster recovery plan. They have also reduced compute costs by 60% per month, thanks to using Spot Instances instead of running renders on local machines.

PayGate is a leader in online payment processing and merchant services throughout southern Africa. PayGate can do things in seconds working in the cloud with AWS technologies. This is what makes the biggest difference to the company day to day.

Absa Group provides financial services in Africa. As part of its innovation and experimentation goals, the bank looked to modernize services and adopt open source—allowing it to move away from expensive proprietary software. By moving to AWS, Asba group reduces IT infrastructure costs, moves away from expensive software to open source, accelerates development with in-house IT team and saves up to $382,000−$437,000 on key initiatives.

Flutterwave saves $120,000 a year and cuts the time for onboarding customers by more than 60 percent by using AWS and moving to serverless computing. Flutterwave develops payment solutions for businesses and people in Africa. The code for Flutterwave’s payment solutions runs on AWS Lambda.