AWS for Industries
Category: AWS Fargate
Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across life science, healthcare, and electronics. More than 60,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From providing products and services that accelerate drug development and manufacturing, well […]
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 […]
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 […]
Automate Patching by Replacing Amazon ECS Container Instances
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 […]
Experimenting with Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS
In this blog post, we experiment with the Bitcoin Blockchain on AWS and demonstrate how to set up a Bitcoin Node on AWS that can be used to send and receive bitcoin from an external wallet. Before we start with the technical setup, let’s go over the potential of this technology. The history and opportunity […]
Monetize Your 5G Investments Using Cognizant’s Digital Services Marketplace on AWS
Introduction Communications service providers (CSPs) are striving to transform their businesses to ensure success in the digital world and position themselves to be digital service providers (DSP). They understand the need to evolve their architectures to simplify the delivery of connectivity and to enable the launch of new market offers through a multidimensional open ecosystem. […]
How a Grocer Can Deliver Personalized Experiences with Recipes
The grocery market was significantly disrupted by the COVID pandemic. Consumers shifted toward online shopping and home deliveries. For example, in 2020 the online share of total grocery in the UK exceeded pre-COVID forecasts for 2024, reaching 8.8% in 2020. International markets experienced similar growth. As restrictions are gradually lifted, some consumer trends are here […]
How to Build a Dynamic Supply Chain Platform: A Primer
To meet customers’ needs in a dynamic and fast-changing world, organizations must establish supply chain platforms that can proactively react in real time. Rapid technological development and advances in utilizing Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and cloud-based platforms can be leveraged to create scalable global platforms that capture data throughout […]
FSI Services Spotlight: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate
In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]
Three Steps for Modernizing Your DTC Ecommerce Website
I’ve spent more than 15 years working with many of the most innovative consumer brands to help them architect their ecommerce platforms. At AWS, my focus is helping consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies enhance customer experiences and gain operational efficiencies, especially with their direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce websites. CPG customers regularly ask how they can realize […]