Category: Amazon EC2

Containerization becoming popular for application lifecycle In the retail industry, more and more developers are using containerization as the primary software lifecycle for applications and services. There are countless benefits to this approach, and it shifts the focus of configuration and runtime management to the container itself. This means that there’s much less configuration and […]

Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our time, and companies all over the globe are being called on to step up and confront the challenge in the context of the climate emergency. The fact is employees want to work for—and customers want to buy from—companies actively striving for sustainability. According to the 2021 […]

Introduction Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is an architecture concept in the telecom industry to enforce state-of-the-art technologies onto servers, network devices, and storage, in order to virtualize Network Functions (NFs). These days, multiple service providers are conceiving their virtual NFs (VNFs) in AWS, and this trend is accelerating further with containerized NFs (CNFs) and 5G. […]

In the training of a machine learning (ML) model, the quality of the model is directly proportional to the quality of data. However, in many cases, in consumer packaged goods (CPG) datasets, there are a lot of missing values affecting the quality of training and prediction in the long run. If your models are already […]

Opportunity at the intersection of demand and supply Complexity and volatility characterized the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industries even before the pandemic impacted all of us. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the associated opportunity loss due to complex and volatile business is estimated to be 8–10 percent, and poor anticipation of demand […]

DISH Network is deploying the first stand-alone, cloud-native, autonomous 5G network. The company envisions a complete cloud-native 5G network with all its functions, except minimal components of the Radio Access Network (RAN), running in the cloud with fully automated network deployment and operations. In this blog post, we describe DISH’s approach to building a scalable […]

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 […]

Introduction Chip design is not only compute and memory intensive, it also requires varying amounts of resource in different Integrated Circuit (IC) design phases: some frontend tools are single threaded and CPU bound, while backend tools rely on high performance storage and large memory. Fixed-size compute farms on-premises result in jobs waiting in queue for […]

AWS Japan G.K. invited Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. executives to speak on the theme of “Digital Reform Initiatives at Fast Retailing: Transformation of Engineering Organizations Utilizing AWS” on September 2, 2021. This post is part 2 of a two-part series where they share key points of their discussion. You won’t want to miss part 1, […]

There were 85+ new service announcements over the course of AWS re:Invent 2021, along with other announcements from partners and solution teams, so to make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers to see relevant news, here’s a list of the top 10 announcements specific to the industry. 1. AWS Graviton3 processors and new […]