Learn how AWS enables GBG, a global ID validation, location-based intelligence, and fraud analytics provider, to enrich customer experience and reduce costs. Dean Garvey-North, head of IT infrastructure for GBG, explains how moving from legacy, on-premises infrastructure to AWS has helped accelerate software releases from five per quarter to 50 per day, increased service uptime and availability, and allowed the company to scale into new markets faster than ever before.

Watch David Travis, chief services portfolio officer at Red Bee Media – a managed service provider that delivers 78 percent of the TV broadcasts in Europe – explain how the company uses 60 different AWS services to track, manage, and search assets, as well as drive analytics and streamline workflows. AWS helped Red Bee Media reduce software deployment times from six months to three days and scale infrastructure based on customer requests for specific events, such as Formula One races.

Media software provider Adstream began its cloud journey nine years ago when it replaced its legacy, on-premises platform with AWS. This enabled its evolution from a media delivery platform into a set of cloud-based applications and services that its customers use to manage creative workflows. Katie Nykanen, chief technology officer at Adstream, explains how AWS helps the company’s developers deploy code faster and how Adstream invests time previously spent maintaining physical infrastructure on growth.

ZS Associates (ZS) is a global professional services firm that helps companies develop and deliver products for their customers. The company turned to AWS to help it harness 1.5 billion anonymized patient claims data in conjunction with other data sources to develop market opportunity assessments and generate actionable recommendations for a mid-size pharmaceutical company that ZS has been partnering with for some time to develop strategies to launch a product. Using Amazon Redshift allowed the ZS team to reduce the time to build predictive algorithms from 1 month to 1 week due to its snappy performance and ability to perform ad-hoc analyses on data stored in Amazon S3.

The Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) operates 13 subsidiary banks in Central and Eastern Europe and serves 16.3 million customers through more than 2,100 business outlets. Group Digital Solutions at RBI adopted a cloud-first approach and runs the enabling platform for its latest digital banking solutions on AWS. After setting up its first micro services environment within 4 months, RBI Group Digital Solutions was able to significantly reduce operational efforts, enabling its teams to focus on innovation and faster rollout of new features. 

Information Builders worked with AWS Managed Services to release Information Builders Cloud on AWS in just four months, avoiding $1 million in new annual costs. Information Builders offers business intelligence, data management, and data integrity solutions for customers of all sizes. AWS Managed Services performed the minimum viable refactoring to shift Information Builders software to AWS and operates AWS infrastructure on behalf of Information Builders. 

SOLIDWORKS uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver instant application trials, increase trial usage from 1,000 to 21,000 prospects monthly, and convert more leads to sales. The organization provides 3D CAD modeling applications for engineers and designers at organizations in 80 countries. SOLIDWORKS uses Amazon AppStream 2.0 to deliver full trials of its flagship application, SOLIDWORKS 2018 CAD Premium.

Using AWS, Redox grew its healthcare data network by more than 500 percent in one year and built a compliant platform using HIPAA-eligible AWS services. Redox is a cloud-native healthcare-technology company founded with the goal of bringing healthcare interoperability to the cloud. Using HIPAA-eligible services offered by AWS, Redox designed its platform around horizontal scalability and uses Amazon EC2 to run its container-based ecosystem.