AWS for Industries

Downdetector Enhances Resilience with AWS Multi-Region Serverless Architecture

Downdetector Enhances Resilience with AWS Multi-Region Serverless Architecture

In today’s digital era, ensuring the resilience and availability of online services is critical. When service disruptions occur, they can have far-reaching impacts across various industries, including advertising and marketing. Downdetector helps minimize the impact on advertising campaigns, data analytics, and customer engagement initiatives, ensuring seamless digital experiences for consumers. Downdetector by Ookla, provides real-time […]

Gaining Microsecond Advantage: How Amazon EC2's Precision Timekeeping Empowers Flow Traders

Gaining Microsecond Advantage: How Amazon EC2’s Precision Timekeeping Empowers Flow Traders

In the High Frequency Trading (HFT) industry, every microsecond counts. Flow Traders, a leading global liquidity provider, has always depended on precise time measurement to maintain an edge over competitors. Historically, on-premises infrastructure relied on expensive, specialized hardware timing devices to achieve the nanosecond-level of time crucial for determining network, hardware, and software latencies, as […]

How energy customers are unlocking the potential of generative AI for Asset Performance Management and methane leak detection

How energy customers are unlocking the potential of generative AI for Asset Performance Management and methane leak detection

Introduction Industrial Asset Performance Management (APM) has experienced a significant transformation over the past three decades. Organizations are shifting away from rigid, time-based maintenance schedules toward predictive maintenance, which enables them to optimize cost, enhance performance, and mitigate risk by anticipating equipment failures before they occur. Today, energy companies are leading the adoption of new […]

How NOV solved critical oilfield operations using Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

How NOV solved critical oilfield operations using Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

The global demand for oil remains high as it powers transportation, industries, and electricity worldwide. One facet of the energy lifecycle is drilling, where drilling operators face numerous challenges in maintaining consistent oil supply to meet this demand. They must navigate harsh environments using heavy machinery with precision, while controlling costs and risks. Drilling operators […]

Empowering collaboration with the OSDU Data Platform for reservoir modeling

Empowering collaboration with the OSDU Data Platform for reservoir modeling

Background To deliver projects on time, global project teams of geoscientists, geomodellers, and reservoir engineers are working much faster than ever before, quite often asynchronously. However, these teams struggle to find, share, and access relevant seismic, well, and interpretation data currently held in data silos, and across disparate systems. Geoscientists need a better, data-centric way […]

OSFI Guideline B-10 and how AWS supports our financial services customers with compliance

OSFI Guideline B-10 and how AWS supports our financial services customers with compliance

In April 2023, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions released its revised Guideline B-10 on Third-Party Risk Management (“Guideline” or “B-10”). The Guideline is effective as of May 1, 2024. It applies to all federally regulated financial institutions (FRFIs). This marks the first time since 2009 that OSFI has updated B-10. Broadly, the […]

How bpx energy uses Amazon Bedrock to transform oil and gas production insights

This is a guest post cowritten with Matthew Mcelhaney, Ayush Rastogi, and Chuanyue Shen from bpx energy. bpx energy (bpx) operates bp’s US onshore portfolio. bpx operates in a highly competitive business environment and projects to grow production volumes 30 percent by 2025, relative to 2022 levels. Technology will enable this production increase and Generative […]

Generative AI Meets Augmented Reality for Frontline Worker Assistance in Manufacturing and Field Services

Across the manufacturing and field service domains, organizations face the need to derive new solutions to support and grow frontline worker capabilities. Challenging trends in industrial workforces are weighing on productivity, efficiency, and worker safety. Enterprises must contend with a growing knowledge and skills gap, as aging workforces retire and take with them vital institutional […]

Application Deployment Strategies on Amazon Web Services in China

Application Deployment Strategies on Amazon Web Services in China

Background Since 2008, the automotive industry in mainland China has been the world’s largest in terms of automobile unit production. Following the economic reforms of the 1980s, most global automakers operate in China through joint ventures. These global automakers, using cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) outside of China, face the challenge of developing […]

Iberdrola reduces incidents at power distribution facilities using AWS IoT and Edge services

Iberdrola reduces incidents at power distribution facilities using AWS IoT and Edge services

Iberdrola is a global leader in electricity generation, distribution, and commercialization, pioneering wind power and renewable energies. i-DE is Iberdrola’s entity responsible for the electric distribution grid in Spain and Portugal, accountable for millions of operational assets with a very heterogenous nature, which makes it challenging to have a live and consolidated view of each […]