Using AWS and AWS Educate, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), equips students with cloud-computing resources and skills to help them succeed after they finish school. BCIT is one of Canada's largest post-secondary polytechnic schools. Students at BCIT use their AWS Educate credits for compute resources used in labs, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and Amazon Route 53. These exercises move from theory into practice, helping students get the skills they need to secure a job after graduation.

AWS Consulting Providers, Protera Technologies and Savantis Group, helped Merrifield Garden Center use SAP on the AWS Cloud to reduce costs, improve the stability and security of their applications and data, and eliminate the burden of managing IT infrastructure hardware so they can focus on new customer-facing initiatives to grow their business.

By deploying Spiral Suite on AWS, BP unlocked the software’s full potential, cutting calculation times from hours to minutes and improving consistency, accuracy, and speed of decision making by moving to a single source of truth. The company delivers energy products, fuel, lubricants, and petrochemicals to people around the world. BP runs Spiral Suite on Amazon EC2 instances, with AWS Auto Scaling to provide more resources when needed and Amazon S3 object storage to hold data.

The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute uses AWS to enable Canadian citizens to manage immunization records on mobile devices. The application uses Amazon EC2, Amazon Cognito, and Amazon RDS.

The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) uses AWS to provide healthcare practitioners and patients with accurate information about medications. Services driving CPhA’s digital transformation include Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SES, and Elastic Load Balancing products to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets.

Using AWS, Mitsui Coal Holdings ensures 99.99 percent uptime for its SAP S/4HANA environment and delivers key performance indicator reports in seconds. Mitsui Coal Holdings invests in joint-venture coal mining projects across Australia. The company is running its SAP S/4HANA installation on Amazon EC2 instances, which support the system’s database and applications, and uses Amazon S3 to store files and backups.

General Electrics’s Business Integration Technologies Laboratory wanted to re-imagine the manufacturing process, but was limited by the speed at which traditional environments can design, test, and build systems. The company took advantage of AWS GovCloud (US) to develop a new manufacturing platform that connects a global network of people and machines in a secure, compliant, and distributed environment.

Union Medical Healthcare (UMH) can produce key financial reports 50 percent faster while giving executives real-time insight into the company’s business performance with SAP S/4HANA Finance running on AWS. UMH provides medical and healthcare services in the Greater China Region. UMH uses SAP S/4HANA Finance, which it runs in an Amazon VPC with Amazon EC2 instances supporting applications and the in-memory database, and it relies on Amazon EBS for storing data.

Omise provides payment gateway services to merchants, including application programming interfaces and developer resources. The company runs its payment gateway services in an Amazon Web Services infrastructure that is compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This has enabled Omise to scale to support demand peaks of more than 1,000 transactions per minute, deliver its services for one-third the cost of doing so from a physical data center, and achieve 99.99 percent availability.