Category: Management Tools

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA): achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, automating audits with APIs, and operational access and security respectively. Each of the five areas includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical […]

The declared goal of German-based energy company EWE AG is the systematic use of modern, cloud-based IT solutions in all business areas. Highly available, high-performance, and flexibly scalable IT solutions are essential to maintain competitive advantages in the current and upcoming energy markets. In particular, the short-term power-trading market is associated with considerable challenges. For […]

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’ […]

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which sell a vast number of products through Amazon.com, need scalable, cost-effective, and accessible data visibility into Amazon Seller and Vendor Central. This enables the management of orders, keeping product catalogs up-to-date, accessing inventory insights, and tracking sales, shipments, and payments. Over the past several years, CPG companies have outsourced […]

Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]

There were a large number of new service announcements as well as partner and solution announcements that came out of AWS re:Invent 2022. To make it easy for advertising and marketing technology customers, we have identified a list of top announcements specific to this industry. Session summaries and access details to content on demand is […]

This blog focuses on a potential method to use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) machine learning models to help customers predict parts that are likely to become defects or recalls. Specifically, we show how predictions generated from an LSTM may provide customers with early indicators that generally out-perform existing manual processes and can help assist […]

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 […]

Introduction The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate one method of how effortlessly you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and building of an accurate power-demand forecasting pipeline using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, such as Amazon Forecast, a time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML). This blog describes how Power Trading Corporation […]