Category: AWS CloudFormation

Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD) is an omnichannel-platform company headquartered in Plano, Texas. It’s committed to providing innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address consumers’ evolving needs and aspirations. Upbound’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Rent-A-Center® and Acima®, which facilitate consumer transactions across various store-based and digital retail channels. Upbound has […]

Our Global Infrastructure spans 108 Availability Zones (AZs) within 34 geographic AWS Regions around the world at the time of writing. To provide mobile apps with ultra-low latency access to the AWS cloud, we collaborate with telecom operators globally to offer AWS Wavelength. AWS Wavelength Zones integrate AWS compute and storage services within mobile networks. […]

AWS for Automotive offers Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) solutions, helping to address the needs of the automotive industry to handle increasing software complexity, improve cost control, and enhance product quality. AWS is innovating on SDV solutions that include the ability to deploy virtualized automotive hardware and software stacks on AWS. This includes building and deploying Google’s […]

To plan wireless networks effectively, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must analyze the viability of potential cell sites. This includes identifying potential facilities, obstructions, sources of interference, etc. Traditionally, capturing this information required a truck roll, which can be expensive, especially at scale. Harnessing the power of Machine Learning (ML) and computer vision to analyze site […]

Today, O2 Telefónica announced its 5G Cloud Core – a new 5G cloud network built entirely in the cloud, using technologies from European network equipment provider Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re increasingly seeing more telecom operators recognize the value of moving network workloads to the cloud. Earlier this year, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO), […]

A technology shift is underway in telecom as devices evolve beyond removable physical Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards in favor of embedded Universal Electronic Circuit Cards (eUICCs) and electronic SIMs (eSIMs). This shift is largely necessitated and driven by the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), where devices are deployed and managed at scale. […]

Introduction Georgia-Pacific embarked on a cloud application modernization and resiliency improvement journey. In this blog post, we look at how Georgia-Pacific transitioned their Disaster Recovery (DR) processes from largely a manual effort to a more automated one, improving their application resiliency at scale in AWS using AWS Resilience Hub. About Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, […]

Continued growth in ecommerce and digital channels The recent pandemic has resulted in irreversible shifts in customers’ behaviors. Customers’ buying habits have shifted to digital channels and this has resulted in small and medium sized businesses losing revenues and potentially those customers forever. Despite customers returning to physical retail stores, digital channels still top customers’ […]

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are looking for opportunities to exploit interoperability across a collaborative ecosystem to boost transactions through their channels, partners’ channels, and payment methods. From this post: “Forrester asserts that aggregators and intermediaries that create value across industries will become important agents in a diverse collaborative ecosystem. However, not all organizations have the […]

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 […]