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Category: Sustainability
Designing resilient cities at Arup using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
This post is co-authored with Richard Alexander and Mark Hallows from Arup. Arup is a global collective of designers, consultants, and experts dedicated to sustainable development. Data underpins Arup consultancy for clients with world-class collection and analysis providing insight to make an impact. The solution presented here is to direct decision-making processes for resilient city […]
Remote monitoring of raw material supply chains for sustainability with Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
Deforestation is a major concern in many tropical geographies where local rainforests are at severe risk of destruction. About 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and some tropical ecosystems are approaching a tipping point beyond which recovery is unlikely. A key driver for deforestation is raw material extraction […]
How xarvio Digital Farming Solutions accelerates its development with Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
This is a guest post co-written by Julian Blau, Data Scientist at xarvio Digital Farming Solutions; BASF Digital Farming GmbH, and Antonio Rodriguez, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS xarvio Digital Farming Solutions is a brand from BASF Digital Farming GmbH, which is part of BASF Agricultural Solutions division. xarvio Digital Farming Solutions offers precision […]
Deploy an MLOps solution that hosts your model endpoints in AWS Lambda
In 2019, Amazon co-founded the climate pledge. The pledge’s goal is to achieve net zero carbon by 2040. This is 10 years earlier than the Paris agreement outlines. Companies who sign up are committed to regular reporting, carbon elimination, and credible offsets. At the time of this writing, 377 companies have signed the climate pledge, […]
Improving stability and flexibility of ML pipelines at Amazon Packaging Innovation with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines
To delight customers and minimize packaging waste, Amazon must select the optimal packaging type for billions of packages shipped every year. If too little protection is used for a fragile item such as a coffee mug, the item will arrive damaged and Amazon risks their customer’s trust. Using too much protection will result in increased […]
Reduce food waste to improve sustainability and financial results in retail with Amazon Forecast
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives becoming more important for companies, our customer, one of Greater China region’s top convenience store chains, has been seeking a solution to reduce food waste (currently over $3.5 million USD per year). Doing so will allow them to not only realize substantial operating savings, but also support corporate […]
Part 1: How NatWest Group built a scalable, secure, and sustainable MLOps platform
This is the first post of a four-part series detailing how NatWest Group, a major financial services institution, partnered with AWS to build a scalable, secure, and sustainable machine learning operations (MLOps) platform. This initial post provides an overview of the AWS and NatWest Group joint team implemented Amazon SageMaker Studio as the standard for […]