Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) enables better investment recommendations, delivers investment strategies to market in weeks instead of months, and onboards new researchers faster using AWS. The company, based in the United Kingdom, offers quantitative and systematic investment management services. QRT processes financial trading data and runs an HPC application environment on the AWS Cloud.

Schoology relies on AWS to support rapid business growth, ensure 99.9% uptime, and focus their resources on delivering value to customers than managing IT. The company provides the best K–12 learning management system with assessment management in the market. Schoology runs its platform on AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon Lambda.

MicroStrategy uses AWS to deploy a full platform in 30 minutes instead of weeks, help companies empower employees with analytical data, and transform its internal operations. The company offers an analytics and mobility software platform used by enterprises in 60 countries. MicroStrategy offers its full analytics and mobility platform on the AWS Cloud, taking advantage of services such as Amazon EFS and Amazon EC2.

WhiteSource uses AWS to power 200 percent yearly growth, ensure 99.999 percent uptime for its SaaS platform, and create innovative new software features. The organization provides a SaaS platform that hundreds of enterprises use to manage the open-source components of their software. WhiteSource runs its primary SaaS application on the AWS Cloud and uses AWS Business Support for business and technical assistance.

The Hour of Code is a high-profile annual campaign that relies on AWS to help manage infrastructure and security needs. Code.org uses the campaign to promote access to computer science education in schools and increase participation by female and underrepresented minority students. Code.org relies on AWS Support and AWS Infrastructure Event Management to ensure seamless delivery of the Hour of Code activities to millions of students and teachers worldwide.

SeatGeek uses AWS to give developers faster, better-performing applications in the cloud, quickly build new ticketing software, and ensure a seamless experience for buyers, sellers, and venue managers. SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticketing marketplace that connects people buying and selling tickets to live events. The company runs its Microsoft .NET–based applications on AWS.

By using AWS RoboMaker to connect Lea, its robotic assistive walker, to the cloud, Robot Care Systems added an intuitive voice interface, OTA updates, and machine-learning–based analytics. The company builds robotic healthcare devices to help people live more independently. Robot Care Systems is using AWS RoboMaker for ROS cloud extensions, Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly to support a voice interface, Amazon Rekognition for facial recognition, and Amazon SageMaker for machine learning for autonomous navigation.

Lancaster University uses a variety of Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and Amazon Alexa to enrich its students’ campus experience with voice technology. The university, founded in 1964, is located in the city of Lancaster, England. In three major national league tables, Lancaster University is ranked in the top 10, making it one of the highest ranked universities in the United Kingdom (UK). Using Amazon Alexa and multiple AWS services, including Amazon Cognito, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Lambda, the voice-powered campus companion answers common academic and social questions. 

Woot cut its data warehouse operating costs by 90 percent, shifted to a model of shared responsibility for data between developer and data teams, and reduced operations overhead by migrating to a serverless data warehouse on AWS. Woot, the original daily deals website, offers other short-term sales across seven product categories. The company is using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Amazon S3 for data ingestion and storage, and it relies on Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight for user-friendly querying and data visualization.