Melco Resorts & Entertainment is a developer, owner, and operator of casino gaming and entertainment casino resort facilities in Asia. Chang Lim, Melco's vice president of digital transformation, and Martin Fuller, Melco's DX platform product leader, explain how the company is utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enhance the experience of guests as it looks to scale operations. By running in the AWS Cloud, Melco's casino management system setup time has gone from 9 months to just 4 weeks.

By migrating its data centers to the AWS Cloud, Plaza Premium Group deploys resources 20 times faster and standardizes compliance as it expands internationally. Plaza Premium Group operates airport lounges, airport terminal hotels, and airport hospitality services in more than 180 locations. The group uses AWS CloudTrail for log retention, Amazon CloudFront for low-latency content delivery, and Amazon API Gateway to build its software-as-a-service solution.

With AWS, BBPOS can support customers in more than 50 countries with single-digit millisecond latency and real-time visibility into its IoT devices. Based in Hong Kong, BBPOS was one of the founders of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices and supporting software. The company uses AWS Global Accelerator for low-latency data transfers, Amazon OpenSearch Service for real-time analytics, and AWS Fargate to automatically scale containers in a serverless fashion.

Yamato Logistics (HK) developed a data pipeline using Amazon S3 and leveraged Amazon QuickSight to create serverless dashboards within minutes, increasing operational efficiency and generating insights to innovate faster.

Measurable AI leverages managed services from AWS to maintain a lean team while scaling its business internationally, saving 20% of developers’ time. Measurable AI provides businesses with aggregated, anonymized insights gathered from consumers in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The company uses Amazon OpenSearch Service for querying, Amazon EKS for Kubernetes orchestration, and Amazon S3 for secure data transfers and storage.

Choco Up built its big data and analytics platform on AWS to enable funding decisions for clients within 1 hour. Choco Up is a revenue-based financing platform that provides fast access to capital for fast-growing companies and startups, with a focus on ecommerce merchants. The company is using Amazon Redshift for scenario analysis at scale, Amazon SageMaker for predictive modelling, and AWS Lambda to run infrastructure as code.

Creative5 built its solar energy management solution on AWS to leverage cloud-native agility in development and limitless scaling for its products. Based in Taiwan, Creative5 provides integrated IoT hardware and software solutions to solar energy providers. The company is using AWS IoT Core to connect legacy solar panels to the internet, AWS Lambda for serverless integrations, and Amazon Lightsail for online monitoring dashboards.

Lalamove implemented optical character recognition (OCR) on AWS to automate validation of drivers’ licenses, reducing the time taken for onboarding from 1 week or more to 1 hour. The Lalamove mobile and web apps provide on-demand logistics services with a network of more than 700,000 delivery partners across the globe. The company is using Amazon Textract for OCR, Amazon SageMaker for machine learning experimentation, and Amazon Rekognition for market share analysis.