Australia Finance Group (AFG) has increased its investment in innovation to better grow its business and compete against fintech startups by reducing its annual IT operational spend by AU$500,000 (US$372,150) using AWS. According to the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia, AFG is one of the largest mortgage aggregators in the country. The company has migrated its main IT systems to the AWS Cloud, including a mission-critical Oracle Siebel CRM platform whose web and application servers run on Amazon EC2 instances and whose data warehouse is delivered using Amazon RDS.

Cybersecurity firm F-Secure speeds installation process and boosts customer experience using AWS. The company, which has tens of millions of consumer customers and more than 100,000 corporate clients, has been providing online security services for nearly 30 years. It uses Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda to react to events in real time.

iCHEF has reduced its IT management overhead by 13 percent using AWS, while also bringing down its overall IT costs to just 7 percent of the monthly fee it charges customers to use its point-of-sale (POS) service. iCHEF provides a POS service for restaurants across Southeast Asia, where employees use the app’s interface through Apple iPads. The company runs the backend infrastructure supporting the POS on the AWS Cloud, using Amazon EC2 instances for compute, Amazon RDS for transactional database services, and AWS Lambda to run daily data integrations for customers with multiple establishments.

ProtectWise uses AWS as the basis for an innovative security-analytics solution, enabling customers to store petabytes of networking data and analyze it in seconds. ProtectWise delivers automated threat detection, pervasive visibility, and unlimited forensic exploration, all from the cloud and on demand. The company uses Amazon EBS to buffer incoming data before storing it in Amazon S3, and uses Amazon EC2 to power data processing and analytics.

DBS Bank is using AWS to transform its business, reach scale, and better serve its customers. DBS Bank is a multinational banking and financial-services corporation heaquarted in Marina Bay, Singapore. The company plans to move all of its public web assets—which support 50 percent of customer traffic and internet-banking workloads—to AWS in the coming years. The organization is also experimenting with AWS Lambda, machine learning, grid computing, and data-analytics workloads as part of its digitial-transformation journey.

By using AWS for its web-application workloads, GuavaPass has nearly doubled its revenue-generating user base with virtually 100 percent uptime on fewer than 10 employee hours per month. GuavaPass is an online social community of premium fitness studios and healthy-living experts in Asia, offering curated fitness classes on demand. The company uses Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, and AWS OpsWorks, and has seen website response times drop to 0.6 seconds from 1.4 seconds while supporting 80 percent more users.

Zalora is an online fashion retailer in South East Asia and Australasia. The business is running its Australian and Taiwan websites on AWS and plans to migrate its remaining websites into AWS by mid-2016. Using AWS has enabled Zalora to bring new products to market three times faster than in a previous hosted data center environment, increase capacity by 150 percent during peak sales periods, and operate with less than 100 engineers supporting more than 1,500 employees.

Edwards Lifesciences moved its entire production system into the AWS Cloud, completing the migration in less than four months. Edwards Lifesciences is a global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Using AWS, Edwards Lifesciences no longer needs to manage data centers and can stay focused on improving patient outcomes and saving lives.