Category: Customer Solutions

In this series, we talk about Swisscom’s journey of automating Amazon Redshift provisioning as part of the Swisscom One Data Platform (ODP) solution using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and we provide code snippets and the other useful references. In Part 1, we did a deep dive on provisioning a secure and compliant […]

In this post, we deep dive into provisioning a secure and compliant Redshift cluster using the AWS CDK and discuss the best practices of secret rotation. We also explain how Swisscom used AWS CDK custom resources in automating the creation of dynamic user groups that are relevant for the AWS Identity and Access management (IAM) roles matching different job functions.

This post is co-written with Amit Gilad, Alex Dickman and Itay Takersman from Cloudinary.  Enterprises and organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. Data-driven decisions lead to more effective responses to unexpected events, increase innovation and allow […]

Designing a full stack search application requires addressing numerous challenges to provide a smooth and effective user experience. This encompasses tasks such as integrating diverse data from various sources with distinct formats and structures, optimizing the user experience for performance and security, providing multilingual support, and optimizing for cost, operations, and reliability. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless […]

AVB Marketing delivers custom digital solutions for their members across a wide range of products. LINQ, AVB’s proprietary product information management system, empowers their appliance, consumer electronics, and furniture retailer members to streamline the management of their product catalog. In this post, we share how AVB reduced their average search time from 3 seconds to 300 milliseconds in LINQ by adopting Amazon OpenSearch Service while processing 14.5 million record updates daily.

In this post, we discuss how Amazon Redshift spatial index functions such as Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system (or H3) can be used to represent spatial data using H3 indexing for fast spatial lookups at scale. Navigating the vast landscape of data-driven insights has always been an exciting endeavor. As technology continues to evolve, one specific facet of this journey is reaching unprecedented proportions: geospatial data.

This is a guest post co-authored with Kanehito Miyake, Engineer at Fujitsu Japan.  Fujitsu Limited was established in Japan in 1935. Currently, we have approximately 120,000 employees worldwide (as of March 2023), including group companies. We develop business in various regions around the world, starting with Japan, and provide digital services globally. To provide a […]

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Apache Airflow is an open source tool used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor sequences of processes and tasks, referred to as workflows. […]

Aura from Unity (formerly known as ironSource) is the market standard for creating rich device experiences that engage and retain customers. In this post, we describe Aura’s successful and swift adoption of Redshift Serverless, which allowed them to optimize their overall bidding advertisement campaigns’ time to market from 24 hours to 2 hours. We explore why Aura chose this solution and what technological challenges it helped solve.

Real-time data streaming and event processing present scalability and management challenges. AWS offers a broad selection of managed real-time data streaming services to effortlessly run these workloads at any scale. In this post, Nexthink shares how Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) empowered them to achieve massive scale in event processing. Experiencing business […]