How did Capital One get to the point where, in 2015, it announced that all new company applications would run in—and all existing applications would be systematically rearchitected for—the cloud? Although Capital One, a technology company that offers financial services, is different in important ways from other companies in its industry, its path to the AWS Cloud and its cloud-first approach to software development offers useful tips for large, non-cloud-native, highly-regulated enterprises mapping out their own cloud journeys.
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Enterprises
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Startups
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Public Sector
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Big Data
Collect and process colossal amounts of data quickly and cost-efficiently.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
FINRA uses AWS to capture, analyze, and store a daily influx of 75 billion records.
Unilever
Unilever uses AWS to launch and analyze digital marketing campaigns faster.
The Kellogg Company
Kellogg's uses AWS to to deliver spend analyses and data simulations in minutes.
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Data Center Migration
Migrate your on-premises workloads to AWS.
AOL
Using AWS, AOL has been able to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, extend its global reach, and save millions of dollars on energy resources.
Conde Nast
In just three months, Condé Nast was able to migrate over 500 servers, one petabyte of storage, various mission critical applications, and over 100 database servers into the AWS Cloud.
InfoSpace
Using AWS, InfoSpace migrated its full data center within 6 months and can now easily manage its Microsoft stack on AWS.
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Enterprise Solutions
Run common and custom business applications securely and reliably.
General Electric
GE is migrating more than 9,000 workloads, including 300 disparate ERP systems, to AWS while reducing its datacenter footprint.
Brooks Brothers
Brooks Brothers runs its SAP and CRM solutions on AWS, gaining agility and cost savings.
Intuit
Intuit is saving money by moving its business applications to AWS.
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Financial Services
Accelerate agility, enable innovation, and protect sentitive data.
Pacific Life Insurance
Pacific Life uses AWS as part of a hybrid computing environment to control IT costs.
NASDAQ OMX
Nasdaq delivers data on demand cost-effectively using AWS.
Robinhood
Robinhood built its brokerage trading platform and a massively scalable securities trading app on AWS.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Enable agile research, collaboration, product development, and sales.
Centers for Disease Control
Using AWS, the CDC shares health information widely while avoiding hardware investments.
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
Siemens has built a secure, HIPAA-compliant, scalable platform on AWS.
Brisol-Myers Squibb
BMS used AWS to build a frugal, secure, self-provisioning research portal.
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Internet of Things (IoT)
Easily and securely connect devices to the cloud.
Enel
Enel is saving on compute and storage costs, reduced provisioning time, and has transformed its business.
Rachio
Rachio processes millions of IoT messages daily and has cut development costs by 40 percent using AWS.
iRobot
iRobot uses AWS to support its vision for products used in connected homes, including its popular Roomba vacuum cleaners.
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Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Machine Learning in the hands of every developer and data scientist.
DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe uses Amazon SageMaker to handle machine learning at scale.
Butterfleye
By combining Butterfleye’s on-camera facial functionality and Amazon Rekognition’s API, the company can identify and tag millions of faces accurately.
Haptik
Haptik incorporated Amazon Polly into the Haptik infrastructure. Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech. In effect, it lets developers build applications that can talk.
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Web & Mobile Apps
Build and scale high-performance websites and mobile applications.
Pinterest
Pinterest uses AWS to manage multiple petabytes of data and perform daily refreshes of its massive search index.
Airbnb
Airbnb's web and mobile apps run on AWS and scale automatically to support demand.
Spotify
Spotify uses AWS's scalable IT to support usage peaks and can launch new features faster.
Discover what customers are doing with AWS today
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IDEXX Case Study
IDEXX uses AWS to deliver a wide range of solutions for veterinary practices. IDEXX is a global leader in veterinary diagnostic equipment and reference laboratory services. The company uses AWS IoT to identify equipment-maintenance needs, stores and serves millions of images weekly with its Image Manager service leveraging Amazon S3, and built an enterprise data lake using Amazon EMR.
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ShootProof Case Study
ShootProof relies on AWS to deliver photos to photographers five times faster, improve the customer experience, and focus more on developing new features. The company is an online marketplace used by tens of thousands of photographers monthly. ShootProof uses Amazon EFS for fully managed, centralized file storage for its digital media packaging workflow system.
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AWS Case Study - PayEasy
PayEasy saves TWD$25 million (US$810,000) and two hours of management time a day by migrating its Oracle RAC database to the AWS Cloud. PayEasy is a leading online retailer in Taiwan, with 5 million registered users. When the existing on-premises infrastructure for PayEasy’s mission-critical Oracle database was going end-of-life, the company migrated the database to the AWS Cloud and Amazon RDS for Oracle, with AWS WAF as the web firewall.
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FICO Lambda Case Study
FICO uses AWS to unlock innovation, deploy software in a day instead of weeks, ensure compliance, and cut costs. The company provides predictive analytics and decision management software solutions to financial services institutions worldwide. FICO runs its Decision Management Suite on AWS Lambda and other AWS services.
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Autodesk Log Analytics Case Study
Autodesk uses AWS to detect and fix application problems faster, improve log file analytics, and create an enterprise unified log data solution with a small IT team. The company creates software used by organizations in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk created a unified log data solution on AWS, taking advantage of Amazon Elasticsearch Service and other AWS services.
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SKF Case Study
Using AWS, SKF is optimizing its production processes, reducing costs, and providing a better experience to its customers. SKF is a bearing manufacturer founded in Sweden in 1907. SKF uses AWS machine learning, data lakes, databases, and more to help it speed innovation.
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innogy Czech Case Study
innogy Czech uses AWS to support critical SAP systems, speed software deployments, provision new systems in weeks instead of months, and recruit and retain new talent. The utilities company provides gas, electricity, and other services to 1.6 million customers across the Czech Republic. innogy Czech runs its SAP systems on the AWS Cloud.
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CAF Case Study
Spanish rail solutions company CAF delivers predictive maintenance capabilities for its LeadMind Platform in just eight weeks with AWS. CAF Rail Services help customers reduce the life-cycle costs of its trains. AWS IoT Core collates sensor data from trains, Amazon Kinesis ingests the data, and then Amazon Redshift stores it for analysis.
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Amazon FLASH Case Study
Amazon migrated its transactional subledger from Oracle to AWS to maintain its core mission of delivering timely, complete, and accurate financial reports as transaction volumes continue to grow. Amazon migrated critical databases to Amazon DynamoDB and used a lift-and-shift approach to migrate relational databases to Amazon RDS.
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California Polytechnic State University Case Study
How does a world-class technology university navigate the migration from an on-premises data center to a future-proofed IT infrastructure in the cloud? California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is one of the top engineering schools in the nation, but the university was struggling with legacy technology that put data at risk. Cal Poly is in the midst of an evolving cloud-migration journey. The university invested in cloud-based training for its IT staff and decided to go all in on the AWS Cloud, breaking free from a lift-and-shift mentality, and found success in adopting a people-first, technology-second strategy. As the world’s first university-based innovation program powered by AWS, the Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) is dedicated to connecting public sector organizations with engaged students and world-class technology expertise. With a "learn-by-doing" approach, the DxHub aims to improve digital experiences for students and citizens globally.
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