AWS for Industries
Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Telco Workload Placement and Configuration Updates with Lambda and inotify
With users and applications demanding high bandwidth along with low latencies, mobile service providers and application developers are working hard to meet demanding performance requirements. To deliver high bandwidth with low latencies, operators often need to deploy mobile Container Network Functions (CNFs) to deliver network connectivity services closer to the traffic location. Since a CNF […]
How We Build This on AWS: Zafiro by Entertainment Solutions
Since 2006, Entertainment Solutions has developed and implemented interactive connectivity solutions that enhance the guest experience. The company specializes in providing services to hotels and has a presence in more than 100,000 rooms in over 60 countries. It also provides connectivity solutions for hospitals, stadiums, and airports. Entertainment Solutions’ mission is to be recognized as […]
Building a Credit Card Payment Processing Platform on AWS
The Financial Services Industry (FSI) is in the midst of a significant transformation and given the key role digitization plays, electronic payments are at the epicenter of this transformation. Payments are becoming increasingly cashless, and the industry’s role in fostering inclusion has become a significant priority. Innovation and development of digital economies are supported by […]
Marathon Oil Scales Intelligent Alerts to Over 4,000 Wells Using AWS Partner Seeq
With 4,000 wells to manage and intelligent alerts to build and run, Marathon Oil decided to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve its alert development time from months to hours. With its existing environment, the team at Marathon Oil was developing on average four intelligent alerts per year. “We weren’t getting any traction because […]
How Excelfore Uses the AWS Cloud to Develop and Deliver Continuous Software Updates for Software Defined Vehicles
Over the past two decades, the value of software in vehicles has risen dramatically. Software in vehicles we drive has usually been embedded into proprietary hardware. Updating and improving such software was usually done by bringing the vehicle in for service, and then updating the firmware with legacy and proprietary systems. In a software defined […]
Xcel Energy migrates CI/CD to AWS Fargate for 60x faster deployments at 82x lower cost
Digitization is transforming the energy industry. However, at Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, legacy technology infrastructure and a reliance on cloud-service contractors were limiting the benefits of digital development. Jared Keith, DevOps lead, joined Xcel Energy in 2019 to help launch new solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and later […]
LTE and 5G Data Network Breakout Designs on AWS
When Communication Service Providers (CSP) deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 5G network functions on AWS, they are presented with different options for user plane data network breakout through the SGi (for LTE) or N6 (for 5G) interface. 3GPP defines SGi Interface as the reference point between the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway – S-GW […]
Sustainability in Retail: Why $10B+ of revenue trusts Altruistiq to help them become industry leaders
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 […]
Delivering CPG Demand Planning at Scale and Hyper-Speed With Samya’s Dynamic Demand AI on AWS
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 […]
How to Build a Microservices Architecture for Retail with Infosys Equinox
Ecommerce is Becoming Ever More Important According to this Forbes article from April 2021, global ecommerce sales were expected to reach $4.2 trillion, and “surveys of consumers in the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States showed online shopping is becoming the preferred method of grocery shopping for a growing number of consumers.” While that […]