Tag: Technical Use Cases

In March 2020, MatHem.se, Sweden’s leading independent pure-play online grocery retailer, saw a huge surge in customer demand almost overnight. The number of concurrent users trying to place a grocery order increased by 800% day-over-day. Here’s how they used a serverless architecture and Amazon EventBridge to handle the strain.

Fintech companies like finAPI enable access to and analysis of banking data and thus support banks, financial service providers, insurance companies, and many other software providers to reposition their digital services and create customer-friendly value-added services.

We recently shared the story of Tic:Toc, a digital home loan scale-up based in Adelaide, Australia, and the steps they took to set their initial foundations. Once your foundations are in place, having a process in place for assessing your architecture is important in building on top of that foundation. To learn more about how customers are evolving their security posture, we sat down with Alan McLeod, the CTO at FYI.

This week on the AWS Security Blog we will be sharing a post for startups and small teams on how they can improve their security in the cloud. We also want to share two customer stories about their journey to achieving a solid security backbone in the cloud. In this post, we hear from Tic:Toc, a fintech startup based in Australia.

German fintech company FlNANZCHECK.de highlights some of the challenges that arise from operating in a regulated world as an organization focused on agility and take a deep dive into three specific regulatory requirements they faced and how they used the technology offered by AWS to help solve each of them.

Fintech startup CRED walks through how they strengthened security and monitoring over their public VPN instance, which was kept in the public VPC, keeping an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion using AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring and a network intrusion detection system.

Digital insight has built a platform for automated due diligence research. However, the technical challenge that sits underneath is enormous. The amount of data that must be collected and analyzed to create each report is vast (much greater than a human would ever be able to explore alone), and the compute resources required to do this must be provisioned in seconds in order to meet their five-minute goal. Toby Miller, a Technical Architect at the startup, walks through how they addressed this challenge.

All medical coding must be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which has strict digital privacy rules in order to protect patient health information (PHI). Here’s how Nym Health does it with 98% accuracy.

Linda Guo, founder and CEO of LogixPath, walks through how the software management startup leveraged the AWS free-tier and AWS Activate credits to migrate from Pivotal Web Services to AWS.

Since 2015, Holo-Light focuses on immersive software and technologies. In augmented and virtual reality, they see a big driver for global digitization and a new way of experiencing and interacting with content – from the industrial sector to entertainment and gaming. Here’s what they’re doing.