AWS for Industries

Category: Amazon EMR

Diagram illustrating how the Lake Formation service works. Data stores flow into the data lake where Lake Formation is shown managing AWS Glue functionality to provide self-service access to users through analytics services such as, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR.

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring AWS Lake Formation

Welcome back to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be […]

AWS Lambda Overview

FSI Services Spotlight: Featuring AWS Lambda

In this edition of Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on AWS Lambda: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code to help […]

Build a genomics data lake on AWS using Amazon EMR (Part 1)

As data emerges from population genomics projects all over the world, researchers struggle to perform large-scale genomics analyses with data scattered across multiple data silos within their organizations. In order to be able to perform more sophisticated tertiary analysis on genomics and clinical data, researchers need to be able to access, aggregate, and query the […]

Top Manufacturing and Industrial Announcements at re:Invent 2021

re:Invent 2021 Industrial companies across manufacturing, automotive, power and utilities, and energy industries are reinventing how they engineer, collaborate, make data driven decisions, lower costs, and improve quality. AWS for Industrial, a curated offering of purpose-built AWS services and AWS Partner Network solutions designed for industrial customers, provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help […]

Acxiom's Amazon EMR architecture for model inferencing

How Acxiom reduced their model inference time from days to hours with Spark on Amazon EMR

Customer intelligence company Acxiom provides data-driven solutions that help marketers worldwide better understand their customers to create better customer experiences and drive business growth. To deliver these customer experiences, Acxiom builds and manages a large number of machine learning (ML) models on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using services like Amazon EMR—a solution for rapidly processing, […]

HelloFresh

AWS is How: HelloFresh Delivers a Personalized Experience to Millions of Customers Around the World

Mealtimes are important sources of connection, comfort, and self-care. And though we all have different lifestyles and preferences, we tend to crave similar qualities when it comes to food: variety, novelty, nutrition, convenience, and great taste. In essence, great food experiences are personal experiences that offer plenty of choice and flexibility. Enter HelloFresh, the most […]

How Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Can Help Utility Regulators Weather the COVID-19 Storm

This is a contributed blog post from Siddahartha Sachdeva, CEO of AWS partner Innowatts. The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming energy consumption and usage patterns. During the pandemic, commercial energy usage slumped 30%, whereas residential demand saw significant increase. These changes surface and illuminate challenges to utilities and regulators. As utilities manage the changing energy landscape, […]

Mapping Bank XYZ’s corporate structure to AWS

How Data Mesh Technology Can Help Transform Risk, Finance, and Treasury Functions in Banks

In our last blog, How Cloud-based Data Mesh Technology Can Enable Financial Regulatory Data Collection, we set out an approach whereby financial institutions can share data with regulators in a manner that enables ongoing operational flexibility and the evolution of regulators’ data requirements. By building a regulatory data mesh from AWS Data Exchange nodes, participants […]

Watch the re:Invent 2020 Sessions for the Advertising and Marketing Technology Industry

We were lucky to share some amazing customer stories at re:Invent 2020 focused on the advertising and marketing technology industry. With all of the announcements and keynotes, you’d be forgiven for not having time to watch each industry-specific session. That’s why we’ve compiled all of the sessions specific to advertising and marketing technology for you […]

How Cloud-based Data Mesh Technology Can Enable Financial Regulatory Data Collection

Background Central banks and financial regulators depend on access to high-quality, up-to-date data from regulated financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies. These regulated entities have widely varying and changing operational environments, each operating independently, but must coordinate with the regulator to exchange relevant data. Today, the costs incurred by banks in supporting regulators’ […]