Running an SAP Business One cloud solution with SAP HANA on AWS has enabled Blue Ocean Systems to provide powerful ERP and business intelligence capabilities to small and midsize businesses. Founded in 2003, Blue Ocean Systems is an integrated business solutions consultancy specializing in the implementation and support of SAP enterprise applications. Blue Ocean Systems is using Amazon EC2 instances powered by Intel® processors to provide SAP Business One in the AWS Cloud with SAP HANA to customers profitably and efficiently.

Thomson Reuters uses AWS as the platform for its Product Insight analytics solution, which can process more than 4,000 events per second and scales automatically to accommodate increases in traffic during breaking news. Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. Product Insight captures and processes data using Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda, stores it using Amazon S3, and secures it using AWS Key Management Service.

After procuring AWS infrastructure, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) of the Philippines was able to launch its Advanced Manifest System (AMS) into production within just three months. The BOC is charged with assessing and collecting customs revenues, curbing illicit trade and all forms of customs fraud, and facilitating trade through an efficient and effective customs-management system. To build systems quickly while securing them against malware and other intrusions, BOC is running a logically isolated infrastructure in an Amazon VPC.

Southern Oregon University used AWS to eliminate its reliance on difficult-to-manage physical tape backups, fully migrating to a disaster-ready, cloud-based solution in just five months—all without changing its backup software or workflows. Southern Oregon University provides career-focused, comprehensive educational experiences to more than 6,200 students from its campus in Ashland, Oregon. The university relies on AWS Storage Gateway for a seamless connection from its backup-management platform to Amazon S3 cloud-based storage, using the AWS US East (N. Virginia) Region to ensure the ability to recover data after a site-level disaster.

Allergan easily supports 10 percent annual business growth and launches new websites and online campaigns in one day instead of several weeks using AWS. Allergan is a global pharmaceutical firm that creates and markets brands to consumers throughout the world. The organization runs more than 400 product websites and marketing applications on AWS. The top 10 percent of Allergan’s AWS-hosted websites—by visitor volume—are built in Sitecore CMS.

Vancouver International Airport’s (YVR) Innovative Travel Solutions team uses AWS to provide high availability and security for its BORDERXPRESS Automated Passport Control solution and to easily scale the solution to accommodate expansion to new airports. YVR, one of the world’s busiest airports, is served by 55 airlines. The organization runs the solution on AWS, using multiple AWS Availability Zones for redundancy and taking advantage of AWS CloudFormation templates to refresh virtual servers and test images before sending them to production.