Pitney Bowes selected AWS based on three critical factors: cost-effective infrastructure, reliability, and productivity. Pitney Bowes is an American provider of global ecommerce solutions, shipping and mailing products, location intelligence, customer-engagement solutions, and customer-information-management solutions. As a volume-based business, performance and I/O is critical. Pitney Bowes was able to move its Windows-based workloads out of a collocated data center to AWS with zero downtime and without disrupting its customers. 

Creative Market moved mission-critical files onto the AWS Cloud, simplifying operations and maintenance and moving closer to its strategic goal of increasing file-size limits for user uploads. Creative Market is a platform on which independent creatives sell digital assets like graphics, templates, and fonts in their online shops. The company stores 1.3 TB of user-uploaded images on a solution that uses Amazon EFS and Amazon S3.

Sony DADC New Media Solutions has been able to elastically scale its infrastructure and automate workflows, making linear broadcast content available as a video-on-demand (VoD) streaming content. Under its Ven.ue brand, Sony DaDC New Media Solutions (NMS) provides digital supply-chain solutions targeting major film studios, broadcasters, music labels, game companies, and other content providers. NMS started its move to AWS by migrating its Ven.ue distribution workflows, running on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances, and is using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier to move its 20-petabyte video archive and Amazon CloudFront as its global content delivery network service to accelerate content delivery to customers.

Lifting and shifting its website from dedicated hosting to AWS helped Seeking Alpha beat a six-month deadline, move from a maintenance to a DevOps mindset, and eliminate most production issues. Seeking Alpha provides a platform on which more than 15,000 investment analysts earn money by publishing their own independent investment news and analysis for an audience of millions. The Seeking Alpha solution includes on-demand Amazon EC2 instances to absorb traffic spikes and Amazon S3 for storing content and backups.  

Thomson Reuters uses AWS as the platform for its Product Insight analytics solution, which can process more than 4,000 events per second and scales automatically to accommodate increases in traffic during breaking news. Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. Product Insight captures and processes data using Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda, stores it using Amazon S3, and secures it using AWS Key Management Service.

Videology uses Amazon EBS to save $15,000 monthly, boost Hadoop cluster performance, and deliver data faster to customers. The company provides software that helps advertisers, marketers, and media companies optimize their digital video and TV advertising spending. Videology uses Amazon EBS Throughput Optimized HDD volumes to support its Hadoop big-data cluster. 

Zillow Group increases machine-learning calculation performance and scalability and delivers near-real-time home-valuation data to customers using AWS. The company houses a portfolio of the largest online real-estate and home-related brands. Zillow Group runs the Zestimate, its machine learning–based home-valuation tool, on Amazon Kinesis and Apache Spark on Amazon EMR.

MovieStarPlanet develops and runs interactive social network games for young people 8–15 years old. It has moved its infrastructure from local data centers and now hosts all its games on AWS. Now it can handle 30 percent more users, who are more active than ever before, at 20 percent lower cost.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) is the digital products and services division of Major League Baseball. MLBAM turned to AWS for a big data solution that ingests and analyzes 17 petabytes of data on individual plays over a season. Using AWS, MLBAM is delivering new information that helps broadcasters, teams, and fans better understand the dynamics and athleticism of the game.