Using AWS Marketplace, Rent-A-Center adopted Alert Logic cloud security as a service to reduce management overhead, simplify regulatory compliance, and gain the freedom to innovate rapidly while protecting data. Rent-A-Center operates more than 3,000 stores in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, offering name-brand furniture, electronics, appliances, and computers through easy, affordable rent-to-own agreements. Rent-A-Center uses Alert Logic from AWS Marketplace for complete protection across its AWS environment, including advanced threat detection, monitoring, and alerting, fully managed 24/7 by security experts.

AdiMap uses AWS to build predictive financial models without needing to spend millions on compute resources and hardware, providing scalable financial intelligence and reducing time to market for new products. AdiMap measures online advertising spend, app financials, and salary data. The company uses Amazon Kinesis to ingest and process data, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and Amazon Machine Learning to predict and infer financials. 

lululemon athletica can stand up development environments in minutes instead of days, automate its environment, and enable continuous integration and deployment using AWS. The Canadian company sells yoga-inspired apparel and other clothing at more than 350 locations throughout the world. The company runs its dev and test environments—as well as an upcoming mobile app—on the AWS Cloud.

By using AWS, JKOS cut the IT costs of launching its business by 90 percent and reduced IT administration costs by 83 percent. JKOS has developed the JKOS app for multiple services including food delivery, taxi bookings and payments. The company supports its apps through the AWS Cloud using Amazon EC2 instances for compute, Amazon RDS for warehousing customer and vendor data, and Amazon S3 for storing images. 

Bustle uses AWS Lambda to process high volumes of data generated by their website in real time, allowing the team to make faster, data-driven decisions. Bustle.com is a news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion website catering to women.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research’s (NIBR) purpose is to cure, care, and provide medicines that treat and prevent diseases, ease suffering and improve quality of life. NIBR maintains a global research network of 6,000 scientists that have 130 projects in development that combine clinical insights with mechanical understanding – focusing on the molecular pathways shared by various diseases. With an average time and cost to take a drug to market of 10 years and about $1 billion, NIBR wants to reduce these numbers using high performance computing.

The cloud-based presentation software company Prezi is using AWS to make informed business decisions powered by vast amounts of data. Launched in 2009, Prezi has disrupted the software presentation market by offering a zoomable canvas that makes it easy to place ideas within a broader context. Using Amazon Redshift and other AWS data services, Prezi has enabled everyone in the company to quickly obtain the data they need—improving the company’s service offerings and helping executives to identify new revenue opportunities. AWS has also helped Prezi to speed up its development cycle, with new features now introduced in days rather than months.

By using AWS, By using AWS, Redfin can innovate quickly and cost effectively with a small IT staff while managing billions of property records. Redfin is a full-service residential real estate company that operates in 37 states and Washington, D.C. The company runs its entire business analytics operation on AWS, using a range of services, including Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon EC2.

Duolingo uses AWS to run an online language-learning platform that stores 31 billion items and includes six billion exercises performed each month. The company reaches more than 18 million monthly users around the world with its free online language learning site. It relies heavily on Amazon DynamoDB for a highly scalable database along with a range of other AWS services, including Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon ElastiCache to increase performance, Amazon S3 for storing image-related data, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for permanent data storage.  

Coursera, an educational company based in Mountain View, CA, partners with prominent universities around the world to offer free online courses. By running its website on AWS, Coursera can handle half a petabyte of traffic each month and scale to deliver courses to over 21 million learners from around the globe.