Category: AWS CloudFormation

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that provides businesses with the tools to power their online and in person payments, embedded financial services, and custom revenue models. In this fast-paced digital world, customer payment flows require automated workflows to kick off processes such as fulfilling orders after a successful payment, granting user access after a […]

Overview Cloud solutions for enterprise applications are focused on creating a virtualized infrastructure to enable the management of various functions necessary to deliver services. With cloud computing, these functions become decoupled from the hardware and are operated from a horizontal platform as cloud-native or virtual functions. This is a unified and standardized platform that supports […]

Learn how to execute Monte Carlo Simulations and Machine Learning data processing at any scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map and AWS Lambda. Organizations across the financial services industry including those providing insurance products rely on Monte Carlo simulations and machine learning feature engineering processes for product development and risk analysis. These processes often […]

Introduction In “Blog 1 – Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” we covered the importance of establishing a strong cloud foundation on AWS, and we identified some of the key capabilities that are different or need to be adapted for Telco use cases. Specifically, we can see that from […]

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. […]