Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) operates a centralized application service for Queensland, Australia. QTAC sees around 100,000 students on its platform and offers 75,000 of those a place at an institution. Using the AWS Cloud, they are able to offer more reliable services and experience nearly 100% uptime, even with traffic spiking to 80,000 hits per minute. QTAC looks forward to a future with expanding opportunities for applicants by utilising new technologies and services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon ECS. With an organisation of 60 to 70 people, using the cloud allows them to do a lot with a small IT team and not worry about operating data centres. 

Adskom improves sales by up to 30 percent with AWS. Adskom is an ad tech company supporting digital marketing campaigns. The company moved its Cloudera Hadoop–based analytics environment to Amazon EC2 instances, supported by Amazon RDS.

Udrew is a one-stop shop for all your small building planning and approvals. Currently, it can take months to get a building plan drawn up, submitted, and approved. The process involves multiple parties and multiple steps, often with drawn out communication back and forth between resident and local council. With udrew, you can plan and get an instant approval in minutes. In the last two years, udrew has adopted the AWS Cloud using services like Amazon S3 to scale the platform quickly and deliver an improved user experience. Using the cloud, udrew is able to scale and deliver services in real-time to serve all parties.

NTUC Link is part of the NTUC (National Trades Union Congress) social enterprise and primarily focuses on the loyalty business in Singapore, with close to 2 million members. Its programs include LinkPoints and Plus!, which enables members to use points for shopping and purchasing goods. Using AWS services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to support its data and analytics pipeline, it has been able to provide insights to merchants and customers much quicker than before, which helps its merchants deliver better personalized services to their customers. By running on AWS, NTUC Link enjoys a faster time to market for its new products and features releases.

Using the AWS Cloud, Woodside can deliver analytics algorithms in a matter of weeks or days instead of three to six months. Woodside is a global oil and gas company based in Australia. The company uses IoT technology to monitor more than 200,000 sensors at one Liquefied Natural Gas plant, and Big Data tools to deliver quick insights across the organization.

Milk animated and rendered 170 ocean simulation shots in 6 weeks on AWS. A London-based visual effects (VFX) company with extensive television and film credits, Milk has won an Academy Award and multiple BAFTA awards. The company uses AWS Thinkbox Deadline to manage and administer Amazon EC2 instances as cloud render nodes. 

Situated at the northern tip of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Noosa Shire covers an area of 871km2 and is home to more than 54,000 people. Using AWS and Technology One, Noosa Shire moved to a cloud-based solution, estimating that they would save 3-4 million dollars. Those savings have been realized and ongoing. The council experiences efficiencies, economies of scale, and scalability. No longer do they need to worry about whether there's enough storage space. They’ve been able to transform the business. Instead of focusing on “where’s that information stored?,” they are able to focus on “what outcomes do we want to achieve for our customers?”

The University of Queensland is focused on leaders of the future. The university has to adapt to the needs of the world and the challenges its students are going to face. In order to do that, they need to deliver services that much quicker. AWS allows them to bring that to their students, teaching staff, and researchers. Using the AWS Cloud, they are now able to deliver an outcome to the university that was not achievable before. Now, the university is able to respond faster, more effectively, and achieve their objectives in teaching and learning.

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