Category: Compute

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 […]

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 […]

Introduction Workbench testing is a key step in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. Testing consists of sending electrical signals to semiconductor devices and comparing output signals to expected values. It is essential to ensure that the produced devices work according to specifications. Workbench testing is also time consuming and costly, so we do not want […]

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 […]

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 […]

In our previous blog, How to Build a Dynamic Supply Chain Platform: A Primer, we discussed how companies can proactively manage market events in a global supply chain using AWS. In this post, we will focus on how companies can manage customs clearance risk in the same supply chain by using AWS artificial intelligence and […]

Since the start of the pandemic, retail customers’ purchasing habits have shifted dramatically—and they’re not going back. From online shopping and curbside pickup to changing brand loyalties prompted by supply chain disruptions to purchase decisions strongly influenced by social media, the world of retail has changed for good. To compete, retailers need to reinvent their […]

Changi Airport Group (CAG) uses innovative technology to operate Singapore Changi Airport, one of the most-awarded airports in the world. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the number of CAG’s passengers sharply decreased by 98 percent in a matter of weeks. Governments all over the world were also starting to impose […]

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, […]