All Customer Success Stories

2U works with leading universities to transform on-campus programs into online campuses. By running on AWS, 2U is able to cache data effortlessly for fast social interaction and focus its resources on innovation instead of infrastructure.

By going all in on AWS, 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) provisions compute resources in minutes instead of weeks, develops and deploys software in one week instead of six, and innovates faster. 3M HIS enables customers to efficiently document, code, classify, store, and measure healthcare delivery with integrated software and services, enabling complete, compliant, and accurate payments. 3M HIS customers also analyze the total cost, quality, and outcomes for patients and populations, using 3M data-analytics applications. 3M HIS runs several advanced applications on AWS.

6 Waves Limited, a leading international publisher and developer of gaming applications on the Facebook platform, uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to host its social games with an audience of more than 50 million players per month.

Using AWS has enabled 91App to reduce the time required to create and launch digital campaigns from what would have been several weeks in a physical infrastructure to 24 hours. 91App builds mobile commerce applications for clients that manage inventory and content through the 91App website. The company is using Amazon ElastiCache to improve the speed of application performance and Amazon CloudFront to distribute content to users in a wide range of markets. 

Using AWS, 9Splay has boosted the availability of the services behind its mobile apps by up to 60 percent while saving 95 percent on the cost of firewall services. 9Splay distributes and markets app-based games across Asia. To enable player logins in countries such as South Korea, the business uses Amazon EC2 instances and maintains a strong defense against denial-of-service attacks through a combination of Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS WAF services. 

AbemaTV is an Internet media-services company based in Japan that operates one of Japan’s leading streaming platforms, FRESH! by AbemaTV. The company built its microservices platform on Amazon EC2 Container Service. By using Amazon ECS, AbemaTV has been able to quickly deploy its new platform at scale with minimal engineering effort.  

Running its infrastructure in AWS has enabled abof to achieve 99.999 percent availability and an average page loading time of 1.5 seconds, while obtaining the agility needed to thrive in the competitive online fashion industry in India. abof is Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group’s initial venture into e-commerce; the business provides apparel, footwear, and accessories for men and women. The business is using Amazon EC2 to run IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite and an IBM DB2 database, Amazon S3 to store website images and video, Amazon RDS to run a MySQL database supporting an in-house developed logistics system, and Amazon CloudFront to deliver content to users across India and internationally. 

ACTi Corporation, a leader in IP video surveillance systems, is using AWS to support the development of dynamic surveillance solutions for greater business intelligence by leveraging the Internet of Things. ACTi provides a cloud-based video-surveillance solution that offers big data analytics and third-party integrations for companies to gain better insight into their customer base. The company uses AWS as a cloud infrastructure for surveillance and data analytics by using services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon DynamoDB. 

AdiMap uses AWS to build predictive financial models without needing to spend millions on compute resources and hardware, providing scalable financial intelligence and reducing time to market for new products. AdiMap measures online advertising spend, app financials, and salary data. The company uses Amazon Kinesis to ingest and process data, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and Amazon Machine Learning to predict and infer financials. 

Adobe Systems provides digital media and digital marketing solutions to customers around the world including consumers, enterprises, and government agencies. By using the AWS Cloud, Adobe can focus on delivering its software products without having to invest in expensive infrastructure.

Airbnb is a community marketplace for unique vacation spaces around the world. Airbnb benefits from the scalability, agility and reliability provided by Amazon Web Services, including Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon RDS.

Airtime is a social media company and mobile app that lets users share their favorite music, videos, and messaging in real time on iOS and Android devices. The company launched on AWS using essential services like Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon S3, and then redesigned its platform to run on a microservices architecture using Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Docker containers. Hear the story, presented by Abby Fuller at the 2016 AWS New York Summit.

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.

By using AWS, Alt/S eliminates the need to spend time on maintaining server instances and can focus on innovation and delivering new product features. Alt/S' Sportify platform is a sports analytics service that uses modeling techniques to develop analyses of popular sports around the world. Alt/S uses AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers, thus saving valuable time and money.

By using AWS, amaysim has been able to sustain its growth with a operations team, it has achieved availability of up to 99.99 percent, and it has reduced week-long incidents to events that are resolved in less than an hour. Founded in 2010, amaysim is an Australian mobile service provider that sells SIM-only mobile plans. The online-led business has moved nearly all of its applications, services, and databases into AWS.  

Using AWS, AOL has been able to close data centers and decommission about 14,000 in-house and collocated servers, move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, extend its global reach, and save millions of dollars on energy resources. AOL is one of the original Internet companies and today has several lines of business, including digital advertising, multiple web properties, and membership services. It uses a broad range of AWS services, such as AWS Lambda for creating serverless architectures, and uses varieties of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to carefully manage its costs. It also leverages AWS for hybrid scenarios for particular workloads.

Using AWS and bitfusion.io from the AWS Marketplace, Apposphere can scale 50 to 60 percent month-over-month while keeping customer satisfaction high. Based in Austin,Texas, Apposphere provides a  mobile app that delivers real-time leads from social media channels. AWS supports Apposphere’s complete technology stack, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, mobile services that support the company’s mobile app, as well as deep-learning solutions.

APUS runs its complete app system and has reached 99.99% availability using AWS. APUS is a global startup company dedicated to providing the best mobile internet products and experiences for smartphone users. The company uses AWS products including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Route 53. As of the end of 2016, APUS boasts more than one billion global users.

Artfinder can match its customers with art they will love thanks to recommendation tools built on AWS. The company is an online art marketplace, allowing thousands of artists to sell directly to buyers. It runs its website and recommendation tools using AWS technologies such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Kinesis Firehose.

Using AWS, Ascension and partner PokitDok provide customers with real-time cost estimates for their healthcare needs, and were able to create and deploy the application within a matter of weeks. Ascension is a nonprofit healthcare organization in the United States, providing more than $1.8 billion for care of persons living in poverty and other community-benefit programs. PokitDok is a cloud-based healthcare API platform. Together, both companies rely on AWS to quickly launch new products and bring them to scale without the worry of downtime.

AsiaInfo employs the highest number of AWS-certified IT professionals in China, helping it secure its reputation among its customers for having high-quality technical staffing. AsiaInfo is a leading provider of business support systems software and solutions for telecommunications companies that include China Telecom, China Unicom, and Telenor. AsiaInfo uses AWS training and certification programs including self-paced quikLABS, instructional videos, and instructor-led training. 

ATG Media provides marketing platforms for auctions worldwide. The company was experiencing outages on its on-premises data center, and moved to AWS to provide high scalability and availability with low latency for online bidders.

Atlassian uses AWS to scale its issue-tracking software applications faster than before, provide improved services to tens of thousands of global customers, and enhance its disaster recovery and availability. The Australia-based organization provides software that helps developers, project managers, and content managers collaborate better. Atlassian uses Amazon EFS to support customers deploying JIRA Data Center on AWS, and also runs an internal issue-tracking application platform on AWS. 

Autodesk can monitor and control the use of hundreds of AWS accounts from a single pane of glass. The California-based company is a leading provider of 3D design software for industrial and consumer use, and uses AWS for a wide range of production workloads. It streamlined access to hundreds of internal AWS accounts for its engineering teams by using Amazon Identity and Access Management (Amazon IAM) and SAML 2.0 federation to link to the company’s on-premises Active Directory service. 

By hosting its infrastructure on AWS, Avira can easily scale its security software to serve tens of millions of end users. The company provides products that help more than 100 million people stay safe in an increasingly connected world. It runs many of its projects on AWS, using services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Relational Database Service, and Amazon Simple Storage Service.

By adopting the AWS Cloud, Avizia ensures its telehealth solution is compliant with regulations and delivers high performance and availability to more than 400 healthcare customers. The company is a global telemedicine provider with a cloud-based platform that provides business intelligence, medical workflow, and secure collaboration tools through web applications, mobile apps, and connected hardware. Avizia deploys Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL as its relational database engine to provide the redundancy the company needs to serve customers around the world.

LOT Airlines is an award-winning carrier that connects Poland with nearly 60 destinations in Europe. LOT chose AWS to test, deploy, and maintain a mobile web application that allows customers to book and manage flights from their mobile devices. LOT now offers travelers a reliable, user-friendly mobile flight management tool and the company was able to lower IT maintenance costs.

Founded in 2003, 2C2P is the leading payments company in Southeast Asia, providing a number of comprehensive, technology-driven, and omnichannel payment services for Asian and international businesses. 2C2P is running its payment systems, database and associated compliance, and other systems in AWS. This has enabled 2C2P to improve availability to 99.999 percent, while supporting tens of thousands of transactions per day.

3DDuo offers promotional, educational, and social games for mobile, and tablets devices. By using AWS to run its multiplayer online role-playing games, the French gaming company was able to reduce the cost of hosting games from €7,000 to €2,000 per month.

8 Securities accomplishes its mission of reinventing investing in Hong Kong by providing a Trading Portal where users have access to resources that enable them to learn from and exchange ideas with like-minded investors. To maintain a cost-effective, reliable, scalable, flexible computing platform, the company uses several services from AWS, including Amazon EC2 with Elastic IP Addresses, Amazon EBS, Amazon VPC, and Elastic Load Balancing.

99designs links designers with customers who need design services for logos, brochures, clothing, corporate marketing, and other projects. The company turned to AWS for database, storage, load balancing, and other cloud services. With AWS, 99designs can efficiently store tens of millions of design assets while remaining agile and responsive to its global customer base.

After switching to Amazon Web Services, Hong Kong-based 9GAG, Inc. reports improved availability for its entertainment website, a 20% improvement in server response time, and a nearly 20% improvement in overall network activity.

adesso is an independent IT service provider specialized in consulting and software development for business projects. The focus is on optimizing core business processes with modern IT. adesso needed a cloud service provider to offer its startup customers a scalable and affordable foundation for their business and to provide cloud solutions for its enterprise customers, who test systems in different environments.

AdRoll, an online advertising platform, serves 50 billion impressions a day worldwide with its global retargeting platforms. By leveraging the scalability and flexibility offered by AWS, AdRoll has been able to grow by more than 15,000% over the last year.

Worldwide entertainment facility provider AEG needed an intranet site for users both inside and outside the corporate network. Huddle Group, an Argentina-based systems integrator and member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), partnered with AEG to create a secure Amazon VPC and a SharePoint intranet site. The site provides 99% availability to AEG’s new VPC for 10,000 worldwide users.

By using AWS, Air Works has improved the performance of its operations by 84 percent and its response times by 160 percent. Air Works is one of India's largest independent aviation maintenance repair and overhaul companies. The company uses AWS to run all of its operations, including compute, identity and access management, and storage.  

Aire provides an alternative to traditional methods of credit scoring for people who have little or no credit history, or are incorrectly classified. The company runs its Aire API web application, as well as analysis and business reporting capabilities, on AWS. Using AWS, Aire took its app to market fast, while ensuring it had the security and availability to get people access to fair credit in a cost-effective way.

Airport Nuremberg needed a flexible and scalable website to handle demand during peak periods. Infopark GA, an AWS partner, used AWS to deliver a highly available and secure website for Airport Nuremberg. The airport estimates saving 60-70% compared to previous web hosting costs.

Alcatel Lucent, a French global telecommunication solutions provider, created OpenTouch Video Store, an online service for enterprises dedicated to the creation and sharing of video content. The company uses AWS to transcode, store and deliver the video content available on its platform to customers located around the world. By using AWS, the company can now roll out new instances in under 5 minutes and ensure high availability and reliability for its service.

Aldebaran, a french robotics company, aims to create a family of companion robots that positively influence our daily lives at home and in school environments. The company uses AWS for storage and to host its website and application store for its robots. By using AWS, the company has gained agility and flexibility and can now make changes to its website infrastructure on the fly while freeing staff to focus on robotics rather than infrastructure.

Houston-based Alert Logic is a security-as-a-service provider that offers security-monitoring solutions for web and business applications. The company built its new vulnerability and configuration management solution, Cloud Insight, on AWS. Cloud Insight helps customers easily identify security threats and quickly remediate them. By leveraging AWS features and services such as APIs and AWS CloudTrail, Alert Logic estimates it saved more than $1 million in capital expenses and six months of development time while launching Cloud Insight.

AlphaSense collects and indexes millions of documents from around the world to provide insights into public company disclosures for investors, including large American investing firms. The company built its software platform on AWS. By using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, AlphaSense has reduced its cost for each re-indexing of its massive data set from $5,000 to $80.

AmInvest, a Malaysia-based funds management service, applies analytical and statistical modeling to identify and exploit market opportunities on behalf of its clients. The company uses AWS to run its analytical and statistical financial modeling platform and analyze more than a terabyte of data. By moving to AWS, AmInvest will lower the cost to run analytics by 50% over a five-year period and reduce the average time required to complete client scenarios in half.

Anhanguera is one of the largest universities in Brazil and one of the largest users of Moodle, an e-learning platform for collaborative learning. When Anhanguera needed to scale the platform to meet user demand, the university leveraged AWS to build a solution that would deliver applications reliably and grow with the user population.

New York-based Animoto launched its web application in 2007, allowing people to create and share videos via the web or mobile device. Using AWS, Animoto scales seamlessly to handle spikes in demand.

Aon Benfield Securities, Inc. (ABSI), a financial services provider, needed high-powered computing to run financial simulations to value and manage insurance retirement products. The company turned to AWS to run its financial simulation platform to reduce simulation time by leveraging GPU optimized instances. As a result, ABSI has been able to lower the calculation and total reporting process time from 10 days to 10 minutes.

Apeejay Stya & Svrán Group is a leading Indian conglomerate with business interests in a wide range of industries. The company moved essential enterprise applications to AWS to better serve its dispersed global business units. The consolidation and centralization of these resources helped the company cut 40% from its IT system costs, 50% from administration costs, and 80% from its software development times.

Arena Flowers is an online florist and gift retailer that serves Europe and the US. The company decided to go all-in on AWS and uses the platform to host its website, order and stock management systems, and fulfillment applications. Now, the florist saves 30% on hosting costs and can scale to expand with massive sales surges on days like Valentines Day.

Arterys offers a medical imaging solution that enables radiologists and cardiologists to improve the process of diagnosing and staging cardiovascular disease in patients. The company is using AWS to render, analyze, and store multi-dimensional models of MRI scans each producing 5 to 10 GB of data. By using AWS, the company can render multi-dimensional models of the heart across all device types in 10 minutes or less instead of the 90-minute industry standard, and scale the platform to handle its growing storage needs.

Assignar provides software that streamlines the way organizations run their assets, field workers, and operations in highly regulated industries, using a single dashboard that delivers information in real time. The Australian startup uses AWS to run its software, including a mobile application that enables workers and managers to capture and submit compliance and safety information from the field. This has enabled Assignar to serve 35 clients in about 12 months versus 10 clients in a physical infrastructure, achieve 99.999 percent availability, and reduce the time needed to onboard new clients from two weeks to less than 10 seconds.

AudioCodes, based in Israel, develops Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure service applications for organizations and enterprises worldwide. The company uses AWS to host its VoIP applications and connect directly to proprietary hardware using AWS Direct Connect. As a result of using AWS, AudioCodes lowered its price point by 300% and broadened its customer base globally.

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. manufactures luxury super sports cars in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy. When the company’s outdated website and infrastructure needed an update, Automobili Lamborghini chose AWS to bring a new website online in less than one month, supporting a new product launch that generated a 250% increase in website traffic.

Avianca Brasil, a Brazilian domestic air carrier with a reputation for passenger comfort and competitive pricing, uses AWS to host content for its marketing department. AWS provides a secure environment at an estimated 60% of the cost of an on-premises solution.

The Azim Premji Foundation works to improve education in India. The not-for-profit foundation works in 45 of India’s least developed districts. The Bangalore-based company uses the AWS Cloud to run all of its operations, including its database, application software, compute, and networking. By using AWS, Azim Premji Foundation is confident that it can double its user base to 10,000 people within the next few years.

Brazilian company B!cash migrated its online money transfer platform from a traditional data center to AWS after experiencing scalability issues on Black Friday 2012. The company uses AWS to process payments between buyers and sellers on a PCI-compliant platform, scaling to support more than 40,000 merchants and 7 million active users.

Banjo provides an intersection between mobile, social, and location—allowing users across the world to tap into what’s happening in real time, no matter where it’s happening. Banjo migrated to AWS to leverage the flexibility and scalability of the AWS Cloud, enabling them to quadruple the company’s number of users in four months without sacrificing latency or availability.

Bankinter, a leading provider of online banking services in Spain, uses AWS as an integral part of their credit-risk simulation application. The application uses complex algorithms to perform 5,000,000 simulations. Using AWS, Bankinter was able to reduce the average time-to-solution from 23 hours to 20 minutes.

Bart & Associates' 400 consultants provide expert enterprise software solutions to a broad range of U.S. government and commercial clients. As the company grew, it partnered with AWS consulting partner Monocle to replace its legacy applications with SAP enterprise software in the AWS cloud (hosted on SAP HANA) and is now running SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP Business Objects, and other SAP modules on AWS. Since the migration, Bart & Associates has rapidly accelerated project timelines while obtaining a cost-effective platform for its SAP environment.

PennyPop’s Battle Camp is a popular mobile game that has been downloaded more than 10 million times. By using Amazon DynamoDB as its primary data store, PennyPop can handle over 80,000 requests per second with just a small team of developers.

BeachMint is a subscriber-based e-commerce company that delivers fashion and lifestyle brands to those looking for affordable luxury. The company launched its application on AWS to provide a cost-effective, scalable infrastructure that would enable them to grow rapidly. BeachMint has seen rapid growth year-over-year and saves $200,000 annually by using AWS.

Beatpacking provides a free streaming music radio service called Beat. The South Korean startup uses AWS to store and deliver streaming content and to analyze user preferences based on 10s of thousands of data points. By using Amazon Web Services, Beatpacking has quickly scaled to support more than five million registered users, it’s expanding the service into other countries, and it can take advantage of flexible instance pricing to suit its evolving business.

Beatpacking provides a free streaming radio service called Beat. The South Korean startup uses a variety of AWS services, including DynamoDB, which it uses to store user preference data called “events” that help determine playlists. By using DynamoDB, Beatpacking has the flexibility to quickly adjust throughput provisioning needs in real time to support the collection of 20,000 events or more per second.

Better Generation channels the power of AWS to perform wind and solar energy assessments. By relying on AWS for e-mail, website hosting, and video distribution, the company saves money, time, and effort.

Bitdefender is a global provider of Internet security software. It uses AWS to help deliver the security-as-a-service module of its GravityZone platform to enterprise clients. By using AWS, its developers have additional tools to innovate and scale on demand with near-zero downtime, offering customers flexible, cost-effective security solutions.

The BMW Group is using AWS for its new connected-car application that collects sensor data from BMW 7 Series cars to give drivers dynamically updated map information. BMW Group is one of the leading manufacturers of premium cars and mobility services in the world, with brands such as Rolls Royce, BMW, and Mini. BMW built its new car-as-a-sensor (CARASSO) service in only six months leveraging Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. By running on AWS, CARASSO can adapt to rapidly changing load requirements that can scale up and down by two orders of magnitude within 24 hours. By 2018 CARASSO is expected to process data collected by a fleet of 100,000 vehicles traveling more than eight billion kilometers.

Boxever’s customer intelligence platform for the travel industry enables retailers to analyze large volumes of customer data in real time. Needing to process and store an increasingly large data set securely, the company turned to AWS. Now Boxever uses AWS for real-time and batch processing, encrypting and storing data on AWS.

BQool provides software that helps Amazon sellers manage reviews and feedback as well as compete with rivals. The company is running its seller software suite—Repricing Central, Feedback Central, and Review Central—in an AWS cloud architecture. This has enabled BQool to achieve 99.999 percent infrastructure availability while reducing the time required to launch new services by a month.

BrightRoll is an independent video ad technology platform for digital video advertising across the web, mobile devices, and connected TV. Using AWS, BrightRoll has created comprehensive digital advertising solutions that deliver petabytes of data to more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers and 18 of the top 20 advertising technology companies.

When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) needed a cost-effective solution to host research data for scientists, the global biopharmaceutical company decided to use AWS to build a secure, self-service portal. As a result, BMS can take advantage of on-demand capacity to keep costs low and run clinical trial simulations 98% faster than its previous environment.

Centrica Connected Home was started by Centrica, as part of British Gas, in 2012 to empower the consumer by enabling them to flexibly control their homes. The entire end-to-end infrastructure on which the Hive Platform is based—including marketing and support websites, data collection services, and the real-time store for user and analytics data—runs on AWS technologies.

Brooks Brothers is a leading US retailer of fashion wear and accessories. The company is running key business-critical SAP applications powered by HANA on AWS. Now, the organization can use AWS to launch and test new SAP software based retail projects in hours instead of weeks, save thousands on hardware costs, and focus more on new initiatives that drive revenue.

Browan Communications, based in Taiwan, sells wireless broadband products and services to clients worldwide. The company uses AWS to host its communications app, FreePP, an application that enables voice-over-IP and instant messaging services for its users. By running on AWS, Browan has reduced time to market by eight weeks and can spin up new servers in minutes instead of waiting weeks for hardware.

BuildFax collects and stores building and permit information from municipalities and counties across the country, which customers use to access construction history, contractor records, and inspection information for millions of properties. When the previous infrastructure could no longer handle demand, BuildFax moved to AWS and can process 750 million different address combinations in less than 3 hours to provide aggregate permit data.

BuildFax provides insurers, building inspectors, and economists with information about commercial and residential structures across the United States. The company uses Amazon Machine Learning to create predictive models used for tasks such as estimating the age of roofs in a particular region so insurers can establish policies based on probable replacement costs. By using Amazon Machine Learning, BuildFax needs just a few weeks to create models that took six months or more in the past to build, and can offer new analytics services to its customers.

BurdaStudios delivers news 75 percent faster by using AWS technologies, supporting its leading celebrity website. Bunte.de is the most popular gossip portal in German-speaking Europe, attracting up to 35 million visits a month. By using a microservices architecture based on Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda, the website easily scales to cope with double the traffic during high-profile news events such as royal marriages or celebrity deaths.

Swedish startup Burt helps large-scale publishers—including the Hearst Corporation in the United States and Bonnier in Europe—make the most of their digital presence through analysis of online advertising. It runs its data intelligence and analytics platform on Amazon Web Services. Using AWS, Burt avoided spending hundreds of thousands of dollars building its own data center and got to market quickly so it could deliver business insight to customers.

Founded in 2013, Buzzdial builds technologies that enable publishers and broadcasters to supplement television shows with a cross-screen digital experience that can be accessed on viewers’ computers, tablets, and phones, and integrated with the broadcast. Buzzdial is running this “second screen” web application in an Amazon Web Services infrastructure. This has enabled Buzzdial to reduce its capital and operating costs by 96 percent, support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users of its application, and expand seamlessly into international markets.

Canary designs and manufactures a complete home security system in a single device that contains an HD video camera and environmental sensors. The company is running its website, platform, and video services on AWS. Using AWS, Canary has the scalability to serve customers in 185 countries and can support more than 150 million incoming videos daily.

Car&Boat Media is a leader in online automobile advertising and editorial content based in France. The company turned to AWS to host, store and deliver website content to its web properties Lacentrale.fr and Promoneuve.fr. By using AWS, the company stores 10 million photos, supports 14 million visitors and delivers 280,000 ads to its websites.

Innovative payment startup CardFlight allows merchants to integrate EMV chip card payments into their existing mobile apps. The company’s payment platform, which encrypts customers’ sensitive financial information and delivers it to payment processors securely, is hosted on the AWS cloud. The AWS PCI-compliant infrastructure has helped CardFlight to bring its solution to market faster, while reducing IT capex and opex by around 40 percent compared to building and maintaining an in-house data center.

Casa & Video is one of Brazil's largest providers of electronics and home products, its infrastructure must be versatile enough to handle large traffic spikes during the holiday shopping season, while also supporting an immense inventory and supply chain. Today, Casa & Video's ecommerce platform incorporates Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses, and Amazon CloudWatch to optimize performance. 

Cenique’s shopper-insight and digital-signage solutions provide retailers across the globe with an easy way to analyze in-store customer behavior and optimize marketing strategies accordingly. The company migrated its analytics platform to AWS after experiencing frequent downtime with on-premises servers. By moving to AWS, Cenique has reduced its operating costs by 60 percent and scaled to support a tenfold increase in customers.

The Center for American Progress is a progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C. The organization moved away from an on-premises IT infrastructure and now uses AWS to run 20 different website properties. By using AWS, the organization now has stable, highly scalable websites that can handle twice the traffic volume, and has eliminated costly website outages.

To meet the needs of its on-demand and digital audiences, UK broadcaster Channel 4 chose AWS to help monetize volumes of platform data. By running on AWS and using Amazon EMR, the broadcast company can collect and analyze vast amounts of data in real time to deliver highly targeted ads to viewers during a 60-minute program.

Chef enables engineers to turn their infrastructure into code by automating how they build, deploy, and manage IT infrastructure. By using AWS to build its infrastructure automation platform, the company has reduced the time its engineers need to provision new IT resources from months to minutes. As a result, the company can focus on building new features for its platform instead of having to worry about managing infrastructure.

Choice Logistics, Inc. provides time-critical delivery services to businesses and an available and efficient messaging environment is vital. By working with APN partner Smartronix to deploy Microsoft Exchange 2010 on the AWS Cloud, Choice Logistics can respond to business demands and resize mailbox servers containing terabytes of data in minutes.

Citrix provides cloud networking products that power some of the world’s largest websites and portals. After joining the AWS Marketplace, Citrix doubled both customers and revenue month over month for its flagship NetScaler and CloudBridge products.

The City of Asheville, located in North Carolina, attracts both tourists and businesses alike with a population of 80,000. The city needed to replace its old disaster recovery (DR) solution that was located a few blocks away from their offices. Enlisting the help of APN partner CloudVelox, the city used AWS to replace its DR solution with one in a different geographic location designed for high availability. By using AWS, the city no longer worries about the risk of not having the necessary IT infrastructure available to support data recovery and critical IT systems during an event such as a hurricane.

The City of McKinney, Texas has about 155,000 residents and is located 15 miles north of Dallas. The city’s IT department is going all-in on AWS and uses the platform to run a wide range of services and applications, such as its land-management and records-management systems. By using AWS, the city’s IT department can focus on delivering new and better services for its citizens and city employees instead of spending resources on buying and maintaining IT infrastructure.

The mission of startup Citymaps is to make mapping a social activity. Citymaps makes a social mapping platform available on iOS, Android, and the web, and provides users with an intuitive mapping interface that is hosted on AWS. Using AWS, Citymaps has been able to focus its team on development initiatives rather than operations, and has been able to scale up seamlessly during traffic spikes of 400-500 percent above normal.

Civis Analytics creates technologies that empower companies and organizations to extract valuable insights from the data they generate, transforming them into smarter organizations. The company uses Amazon Redshift to run its analytics platform enabling its customers to run tens of thousands of jobs per month regardless of their complexity. Using AWS, Civis Analytics can scale up its IT infrastructure dynamically based on the number of customer using its platform.

After spinning out from its parent company, Claritas Genomics needed a low-cost IT environment for its clinical diagnostics laboratory. The company took advantage of AWS Security and Compliance to build a genetics platform that met HIPAA requirements. By using AWS, Claritas has lowered its IT costs by 30% per month, so it can invest its limited resources in the business instead of IT.

Classle's social learning platform serves as a collaborative learning resource for students; especially for the resource and opportunity constrained learners. The company's infrastructure is built entirely on AWS. This infrastructure includes almost all services of AWS including the pairing of Amazon S3 as an origin server and Amazon CloudFront as an edge server. This combination has helped Classle to improve its Web content delivery speed by 180 percent.

ClicThat is a UK-based e-commerce company that offers a collaborative online auction platform to businesses and consumers. When it was ready to launch, the company turned to AWS to run its platform to ensure that it would scale with user demand. By moving its infrastructure to AWS, the company reduced its cost by 70% over traditional hardware-based infrastructures.

Cloud Advantage is a cloud infrastructure technology consultancy based in Sydney, Australia. Using AWS, Cloud Advantage can reduce infrastructure costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars and help businesses of all sizes launch new projects cost effectively.

Cloud Kinetics is an APN Advanced Consulting Partner that helps enterprises, small and mid-sized businesses, and ISVs move to the AWS cloud. The company launched on AWS so it could offer its customers business consulting, architecting, cloud environments, and lifecycle management services for its clients. By using AWS, Cloud Kinetics can market solutions to a range of segments, from small businesses to enterprise financial institutions.

CMP.LY offers a social media monitoring, measurement, insight, and compliance solution called CommandPost, which runs entirely on the AWS cloud. CMP.LY uses AWS Lambda to process and record inbound traffic from a range of social media platforms within milliseconds of arrival. By using AWS Lambda, CMP.LY has reduced its server maintenance needs and improved CommandPost’s performance.

Cmune is pioneering the field of 3D social games. Hosting its platform backend on AWS gives Cmunel a fexible and scalable infrastructure critical to the game producer's success.

Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding youth participation in computer science, turned to AWS to help launch its Hour of Code campaign. AWS provided the elasticity to keep the organization’s website running as 20 million students wrote nearly 700 million lines of code on the site during Computer Science Education Week.

Coinbase is the world's most popular bitcoin wallet, facilitating bitcoin transactions in 190 countries. The organization runs its global bitcoin exchanges, wallets, and an analytical insight pipeline on AWS. Using AWS, Coinbase has grown to support 3 million global bitcoin users and processes and can analyze 1 TB of data each day for better insight into its business.

It would take Comba Telecom’s global finance team more than 400 milliseconds to access the company’s SAP Business One financial reporting system located in a Hong Kong data center. By moving the SAP solution to the AWS Cloud, access time improved to less than 100 milliseconds and Comba Telecom calculates reducing total cost of ownership by 40%.

Concrete Software has been designing and publishing games for mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows, since 2003. By using Amazon Cognito, the company can easily manage end-user identities, synchronize game data across platforms and devices, and rapidly deploy new games across smartphones and tablets helping them deliver a consistent user-experience.

ConnectWise provides platforms that help IT services companies sell, service, and support their technology products and services. ConnectWise uses AWS Lambda to process operational logs from Amazon S3 so it can create real-time system performance dashboards that enable IT teams to provide high-quality service to their customers. As a result, the company has reduced its server maintenance needs from weeks to hours.

Convertale helps its customers get an edge in the e-commerce space through product recommendations based on analysis of online shoppers’ behavior. Its real-time, plug-and-play recommendation engine runs on Amazon Web Services. Using AWS, the firm gained a scalable environment in which to test and run its solution, and it now processes more than half a billion user behaviors a month for its e-commerce clients.

CoreTech System (Moldex3D) provides computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software for the plastic injection molding industry. The company wanted to expand and saw the cloud as an ideal environment for high-computing processing. Using AWS to host its SaaS solution, CoreTech System has been able to scale to accommodate job requests automatically, pass cost savings to traditional customers, and expand its customer base.

Corporate Governance Risk Pty Ltd (CGR), developer of a web-based risk management application, found that moving to the AWS Cloud gave the company a competitive edge to deliver services to its European clients in seconds with virtually zero downtime.

Coursera, an educational company based in Mountain View, CA, partners with prominent universities around the world to offer free online courses. By running its website on AWS, Coursera can handle half a petabyte of traffic each month and scale to deliver courses to over 21 million learners from around the globe.

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities worldwide to offer more than a thousand online courses for free. The company uses Amazon EC2 Container Service to manage a microservices -based architecture for its applications. Coursera can now deploy software changes in minutes instead of hours in a resource-isolated environment.

Crittercism is a mobile application performance management solution that helps developers monitor the performance of their mobile apps across iOS, Windows, Android, and HTML5 platforms. The company uses AWS to run its performance management solution and monitor more than one billion mobile apps. Using tools like Chef and Docker with AWS allows the company's three-person engineering team to automate processes and deploy multiple code updates per day instead of managing hardware.

CrossKnowledge, a global digital learning company, provides distance learning solutions that enable companies to train employees. The organization uses AWS to expand internationally and reach customers that they couldn’t reach before with their on-premises infrastructure. Thanks to the scalability, global reach, and low cost of AWS, the company has grown its user base by 10x from 500,000 users to 5 million.

CrowdChat takes conversations on the Internet and social media networks and then unifies them for users according to topic hashtags. The company turned to AWS to run its web application as well as its big data workloads. By using AWS, CrowdChat created an infrastructure that can store more than 250 million documents and easily handle demand so users can quickly find topics of interest.

CSS Corp provides technology support for enterprise and consumer products, manages IT infrastructures, and deploys networks. When the company needed to speed deployment of its tools to customers, it moved to AWS. Now the company can deploy tools and technology 7x faster than it could with an on-premises data center and has reduced its IT operations costs by 60 percent. CSS Corp also recently deployed its SAP ERP on HANA using AWS.

Fast-growing clinical applications firm Cydar provides 3D overlay technology for X-ray–guided procedures. It turned to Amazon Web Services for massive graphics processing unit (GPU) compute power to rapidly update its overlays. With AWS, Cydar saved about £200,000 and hundreds of hours of development time.

D-Link Corporation, an international networking solutions provider, needed to launch its cloud-based service portal, mydlink, quickly and economically. By migrating to AWS, the company was able to build and deploy the portal in only six weeks, and estimates 30% faster service delivery to customers while reducing IT costs by roughly 50%.

Daily Voice provides online news coverage specific to communities throughout Connecticut and New York. The company runs its website infrastructure on AWS including its web servers, content delivery, and email services. By using AWS, Daily Voice has been able to scale its website to support a 40% increase in web traffic and send around 200,000 emails per day to its users.

Dash Labs has created a smart driving app to make the road safer, cleaner, and more affordable by giving drivers the ability to monitor the performance and fuel efficiency of their vehicles. The company runs its application entirely on AWS, storing and analyzing billions of events. By using AWS for the real-time processing of events, Dash can provide its users with up-to-the-minute driving details and save on administrative costs.

DataRPM, based in Redwood City, CA, helps enterprises to create data products to solve specific business problems in retention, personalization and monetization. The company runs on AWS to ensure that it can scale up to accommodate the needs of its users, who require high availability and high the needs of its users, who require high availability and high throughput for the business analytics and modeling they perform. By using AWS, the company estimates its performance has improved by 30 percent.

DataXu is a cloud-based provider of programmatic software that helps advertisers save money and increase sales through greater effectiveness and efficiency in their marketing efforts. The company faced issues with scale and costs associated with on-premises IT environments and turned to AWS to run its big data platform. By using AWS, DataXu evaluates more than 30 trillion ad opportunities per month while saving up to 72 percent monthly on operational costs.

Dato uses AWS to support highly scalable big-data applications that run machine learning processes for real-time analytics. Dato is a startup focused on creating a platform for people to build intelligent applications that use machine learning as their core technology. Dato uses a range of AWS services, including powerful Amazon EC2 G2 instance types, Amazon S3 for storing data, and Elastic Load Balancing to distribute prediction workloads across available machines for optimal speed and reliability.

Decisyon develops a wide array of platforms that help customers unify business and operational applications for better decision making. Decisyon uses AWS to run big data solutions and its customers’ Internet of Things ecosystems, ranging from smart windfarms to supply-chain vendor management systems. By using AWS, Decisyon has a scalable, fault-tolerate platform to serve customers in 11 countries.

Delaware North is a major presence in the food service and hospitality industry, serving more than 500 million customers at 200 venues around the world each year. The company decided to move most of its corporate data center operations to AWS. The migration helped Delaware North reduce its server footprint by 91 percent, achieve a projected TCO reduction of at least $3.5 million over five years, improve security compliance and disaster recovery, and vastly streamline the delivery of new services and solutions internally and to its business customers.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) assists local, state, and federal Democratic candidates. The organization moved from a traditional IT infrastructure to AWS to run its website and to gather, store, and deliver voter data to other political organizations. By using AWS, the DNC reduced its IT footprint, cut costs, and can scale its website easily to handle spikes in traffic.

DerbySoft is a global hub that connects those in the travel industry, from tour operators and travel agencies to global hotel chains. Using AWS helps the company reduce capital expenditure and offer real-time data with high availability and minimal latency to more than 8,000 hotels.

Devicescape enables telecom operators to manage the movement of their smartphone users between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, ensuring the best connection at all times. Devicescape used AWS to rebuild its service and seamlessly connect people to its network of more than 20 million public Wi-Fi access points worldwide.

Diffbot provides APIs to understand and extract a variety of data from web pages. The company runs on AWS to scale in as little as 5 minutes for high-performance computing tasks and process hundreds of millions of web pages per month.

Discovery Communications’ digital media business uses AWS to easily meet fluctuating traffic on its websites, which attract tens of millions of visitors each month. With AWS, Discovery migrated more than 40 websites, saving a substantial amount in infrastructure costs.

DNAnexus delivers a platform as a service for genomic researchers at more than 100 enterprises across the globe. To support large-scale genomic studies, the company turned to AWS for its high-performance compute and storage to run the DNAnexus genome informatics and data management platform. On AWS, DNAnexus scales to tens of millions of core hours of analysis and stores petabytes of data in a HIPAA-compliant environment.

DoApp provides more than 460 web and mobile applications for news organizations in 150 markets across the United States, with support for the iOS, Android, Amazon Fire, and mobile web platforms. The company uses Amazon Web Services to publish, update, and serve content to apps, particularly news apps that can be customized for individual organizations. By using AWS, the company’s 12 employees—including just three backend developers—have been able to provide content with uninterrupted availability for nearly five years while continually innovating and winning new clients across the globe.

Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Through its platform, the company aims to liberate developers from the concerns associated with the production and distribution of applications. Listen to Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, as he shares a short update on running Docker on AWS and describes what’s coming next to the platform.

Needing a solution to host its Microsoft SharePoint solutions, Dole Food Company, chose AWS because of reliability and low cost. The company can launch a new SharePoint site in minutes on the AWS Cloud and has saved at $350,000 in operating expenses.

The Dolphin Browser by MoboTap, Inc. has been downloaded over 13 million times onto Android, iPhone and iPad mobile devices. The majority of the browser’s services and backend operations are powered by more than eighty instances running Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EMR, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront.

Domain Group provides real estate information and services to Australians via online and print platforms. The firm runs the infrastructure supporting its database, websites, and mobile applications in the AWS cloud. This has enabled Domain to improve server response times by 50 percent, provision new Windows instances in 10 minutes, and achieve availability of 99.95 percent.

Druva provides endpoint data solutions for mobile enterprise customers. By moving to AWS, Druva can give customers near immediate access to new product features, and is able to focus on product updates instead of IT.

EasyTaxi’s mobile platform enables customers to find and hire taxis fast in more than 30 countries around the world. The company turned to AWS to host its mobile application and store taxi drivers’ documents. By using AWS, the company can support more than 300,000 requests per minute to its API and conduct text searches on billions of indexed documents.

Eataly is a provider of Italian food, beverages, restaurants, and other products and services. It uses AWS for a wide range of business functions, including running its website and e-commerce platform, providing data storage, communicating with a mobile app, and for business analytics. By using AWS, Eataly has been able to expand globally while scaling to support hundreds of thousands of users and millions of page views every month.

Echo360 provides an active learning platform that schools and students can use on-campus or as a distance-learning application. The company uses AWS to store, manage, deliver and archive the content on its platform. Running on AWS allows the company to scale globally and reliably as two million students across 650 schools in 30 countries use the platform. Taking advantage of dynamic scaling and other AWS efficiencies enables Echo360 to deliver the learning platform to schools at 30 percent less than an on-premises solution.

edotco Group has achieved availability well in excess of its service level agreement of 99.95 percent and reduced infrastructure costs by at least 50 percent over five years by using AWS. Established in 2012, edotco Group provides end-to-end solutions in the telecommunications tower services sector, including collocations, build-to-suit, energy, transmission, operations, and maintenance in Asia. The company is currently deploying business-critical telecommunications and business intelligence systems in AWS.  

eFront is a French-based company that creates financial software for customers in the private equity, real-estate investment, banking, and insurance sectors. eFront is migrating a data center to AWS in order to reduce costs and provide scalable operations worldwide. By using AWS, the company has reduced its time to market and expanded its services to customers in South America.

Egis Technology Inc. (EgisTec), a leading sensor provider of fingerprint biometrics and data encryption, uses AWS as a cost-effective platform to deploy their company website and product web application.

EigenRisk delivers risk analytics services to the insurance, reinsurance, and risk-management community. The startup moved its operations to AWS early on to provide the robust computing power and speed it needed to present proofs of concept to its clients. By using AWS for its compute, database, load balancing, and networking needs, EigenRisk has reduced its time to market and can scale up as its growth requires.

Encoding.com provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) video encoding for customers around the world. Encoding.com runs 100% of its media processing on Amazon EC2, with video storage and instance backups on Amazon S3, AWS Import/Export service for customers with massive video-encoding jobs, and Amazon CloudFront for "cloud video" distribution.

Endemol provides multiplatform entertainment content that is distributed in more than 30 countries. The Netherlands-based company turned to AWS to help manage its massive digital media output and uses Amazon WorkSpaces for provisioning virtual desktops for temporary workers. With AWS, the company has cut IT costs about 70 percent compared to its old IT architecture.

Enlighten Designs uses AWS to stream live sporting events (e.g., Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010) by deploying instances on Amazon EC2 to power the underlying infrastructure for streaming live footage of these events.

EROAD is a New Zealand technology business that sells hardware and software to monitor commercial vehicles and collect road-user charges electronically. The company uses the global infrastructure that AWS offers to expand its vehicle monitoring and tolling platform to new markets worldwide with ease. AWS allows EROAD to set up services in new countries in minutes, support thousands of vehicle location updates per second and achieve 99.99% availability for its services.

Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands, serves more than four million customers. The company uses AWS to manage high volumes of data coming from smart meters that monitor customers’ energy usage. Using AWS, Essent has a highly scalable platform capable of handling at least 200,000 messages every 10 seconds.

ESUPERFUND is one of the largest self-managed retirement funds service provider in Australia. To prepare and scale for a period of rapid expansion, the company migrated its website infrastructure and client database to the AWS Cloud. The ESUPERFUND site now performs three times faster than before and the company has reduced operating costs by 40%.

Etix, an international web-based ticketing service company, provides over 50 million tickets per year in 40 countries. By working with Attunity, an AWS technology partner, Etix can perform complex queries across 13 years of transactional data for comprehensive analysis and new product development.

Euclid, based in Palo Alto, CA, collects and analyzes data to help brick-and-mortar retailers optimize their businesses. By running on AWS, Euclid can run complex queries on tens of terabytes of data in only two hours while reducing costs by nearly 90%.

EUROFORUM, a subsidiary of Informa plc, engages recognized experts from business, academia and politics for knowledge transfer through conferences, seminars and annual meetings. Informa needed a global service provider to move its server infrastructure into the cloud. With AWS, EUROFORUM is able to quickly scale its IT infrastructure to support rapid changes to organizational needs.

The European Space Agency (ESA) uses satellites to collect valuable data about the current state of the planet through its Data User Elements (DUE) program. AWS helps DUE provide images and other products to over 50,000 users worldwide, which can equal 30 TB of information.

Ex Machina is a leading developer of second-screen apps, where users interact with TV broadcasts via a cell phone or tablet. To cope with huge traffic spikes when hundreds of thousands of users use the service at once, Ex Machina hosts the platform that powers all its applications on AWS. By using an elastic infrastructure as opposed to a fixed one, Ex Machina saves around 90 percent in costs.

Excelsoft Technologies is an e-learning company that develops software platforms and applications to offer online courses, tests, assessments and other tools for the education market. Excelsoft uses Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and Amazon CloudFront to provide its customers with reliable products and services.

Exeter Family Friendly is a leading UK-based insurance company, initially founded over 100 years ago. Exeter Family uses AWS to run its policy servicing, data warehouse, customer relationship, SharePoint sites, and SAP Business One. Migrating its entire infrastructure to AWS helped Exeter reduce processing time by 6x and increase the delivery of customer quotes by almost 30%.

Berlin start-up, EyeEm, provider of a popular photography platform for sharing smartphone pictures, turned to AWS for help managing unexpected growth and traffic spikes. By running on AWS, EyeEm can scale to handle traffic spikes 30 to 50 times higher than normal and manage a tenfold increase in usage.

Eyeota collects and analyzes audience data that online publishers use to create advertising campaigns. The company relies on AWS to collect and store billions of data points daily from more than 30,000 publishers, then uses internal analytics tools to help the publishers create targeted ads. By using AWS, Eyeota has been able to expand into multiple international markets while keeping costs low and maximizing its customers’ advertising revenues.

Fairfax Media is a leading multi-platform media company with metropolitan, rural, regional and community publications in Australia and New Zealand. Fairfax uses AWS services to reduce its multi-million dollar Capital Expenditures bill and bring new products to market in weeks.

Fashiolista, a fashion-based social network based in the Netherlands, outgrew its colocation facility after attracting more than a million members in two years. To sustain growth, the company established a flexible solution using AWS that has supported a 150% increase in web traffic, allowed Fashiolista to provide 99.99% availability, and reduced hardware investments by 60%.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago was chartered in 1932 to improve capital availability in the real estate market by loaning money to other banks. The company migrated all of its internal production workloads to AWS including its analytics platform, disaster recovery solution, and other internal applications. By moving to AWS, the organization reduced its overall IT infrastructure costs by 30 percent.

Ferrara Candy Company, founded in 1908, is the third largest confectionery company in the United States. The company is running its reporting and analytics environment (using SAP BusinessObjects on HANA) in an AWS production environment. By using AWS, insight delivery times have been reduced from weeks to minutes, and the company has access to full data sets and the ability to analyze on demand.

Fiksu is a mobile advertising optimization platform that helps companies precisely target key audiences. The company has been doubling in size each year, creating scalability issues. Fiksu turned to AWS to solve the problem, using a full range of AWS services to dramatically scale its production infrastructure to process tens of billions of requests while cutting development time and costs.

Fin Design + Effects is an award-winning Australian visual effects and design company. Fin is running its software rendering farm on AWS, as part of a hybrid architecture that also includes on-premises servers. Using AWS, the company is able to add compute resources on demand to support unexpected fluctuations, is reducing operational costs by 50 percent, and has the flexibility to manage both on-premises and cloud-based servers.

The Financial Times, a global daily newspaper with a particular focus on business and economic events, is transforming itself into a digital organization that is at the cutting edge of news. The company uses Amazon Redshift to run queries on its 450,000 online subscribers 98% faster and 80% cheaper than with their previous data warehouse solution.

Flipboard is one of the world’s first social magazines; the company’s mission is to fundamentally improve how people discover, view, and share content across their social networks. Using AWS, Flipboard was able to go from concept to delivered product in just 6 months with only a handful of engineers.

Flitsmeister is a mobile app that provides Dutch drivers with continuously updated information, from their peers and from GPS signals, on traffic conditions in the Netherlands. The company moved its service to AWS, which allowed it to double refresh rates during busy periods to provide better and timelier information to users.

Low-cost airline flydubai has cut time to market for new online services from up to 10 weeks to just hours and is delivering a more responsive, reliable experience to customers using AWS. The company has 50 aircraft serving more than 90 destinations across the Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus, Europe, central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The airline runs its online check-in platform on AWS, and is using Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon Direct Connect, and other services.

Flypay is a mobile application and payment technology company based in London. Flypay turned to AWS when it wanted to build a mobile app that would enable restaurant customers to pay their bills seamlessly. The company uses AWS to host its app, the apps of other restaurants, and power its mobile payment technology. Using AWS, Flypay can migrate, deploy, and scale mobile applications within 6 weeks with zero downtime.

Sweden-based Football Addicts aims to change the sport of football (American soccer) with its Forza Football app, which aggregates users’ opinions to give fans a voice. The company runs its analytics platform on AWS, including a dashboard for visually analyzing metrics based on more than 1.6 billion user events across 100 million sessions per month. With the new insights gained, the company is able to adapt its app to regional preferences and improve retention rates.

Fotomerchant provides a platform that helps photographers create their own photography website, portfolio, and online store. Looking for affordable storage to support its growing user base, Fotomerchant turned to AWS and is able to scale and store customer data cost effectively.

Freshdesk, a California-based startup provides companies with cloud-based customer support platforms to deliver great customer service. The company uses AWS to host, deploy and operate its customer support platform to support more than 28,000 customers. By using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances the company saved more than 75% on infrastructure costs.

Fronde is a systems integrator and software developer based in Australia and New Zealand. Fronde, a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), has used AWS since 2008 to design and integrate cloud solutions for thousands of customers worldwide.

Frontier Games is a UK-based video game company. It turned to AWS to develop and host its games, including Zoo Tycoon, Elite: Dangerous, and Coaster Crazy. By using AWS, Frontier Games can scale compute resources easily to handle large spikes in user traffic with popular titles, and is saving up to 30 percent compared to using a traditional technology infrastructure, allowing it to focus financial resources on game development instead of on IT hardware.

Fujitsu RunMyProcess is a cloud based platform that enables enterprises to easily develop and deploy workflow-based applications within their organizations. The company migrated its entire infrastructure to AWS in 2008 to improve the availability of its services around the world. By using AWS, RunMyProcess expanded its infrastructure by tenfold for the same cost as its previous on-premise solution.

FunPlus Game is a mobile and social gaming company that provides interactive games for mobile devices and social networks worldwide. By moving to AWS, FunPlus has the flexibility to customize its environment and can scale from 1 million to 3 million users in 3 months with only 1 engineer.

Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona) is a highly popular soccer team based in Barcelona, Spain. In order to maintain the FCBarcelona website—which boasts over 6,000 pages and over 12,000 digitized photos, and is available in six languages—FCBarcelona’s partner, Gnuine, uses a number of Amazon Web Services products to host Ubiquo Sports, a specialized SaaS CMS: Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon SNS, Amazon RDS, and AWS CloudFormation.

G+J Uitgevers publishes successful media brands, like National Geographic and Vogue, for viewers in the Netherlands and Belgium. When the company needed a more flexible solution to handle unpredictable spikes in traffic to its websites, it migrated to AWS. Now, the company uses AWS to host all its websites, effectively managing traffic spikes, decreasing overall hosting costs by 20 percent, and decreasing time to market by 95 percent.

Galata Chemicals, an additives producer based in Connecticut, wanted to lower IT costs while maintaining a disaster recovery solution for their SAP ERP system. Galata worked with Protera Technologies to move Galata’s disaster recovery solution to AWS, saving time and reducing operational costs by approximately 70% when compared to an on-premises solution.

Gamegoo, a leading developer of online games in Asia, wanted to capitalize on the growing market for mobile games in China, but its on-premises servers couldn’t support players effectively. After migrating to AWS, Gamegoo is able to provide near 100% availability for mobile games and have the compute capacity to support 50,000 new players a day.

GE’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. GE 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.

General Electric (GE) is migrating more than 9,000 workloads, including 300 disparate ERP systems, to AWS while reducing its datacenter footprint from 34 to four over the next three years. The company is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive, and predictive. Jim Fowler, General Electric's chief information officer, noting that GE has been around for 140 years, says, "AWS is our trusted partner that is going to run our company for the next 140 years.” As an example, the GE Oil & Gas division has started this journey by migrating more than half of its core applications to AWS while achieving a 52 percent reduction in its total cost of ownership.

Geo.me is a software company that helps large enterprises turn location data into actionable business intelligence through smartphone apps, navigational systems, and mobile devices. The startup began using AWS in 2008 and built its app to scale automatically while keeping costs low. Using AWS enablesd the company to drive efficiencies, enhance its services, and serve millions of requests around the world every day.

GeoNet, New Zealand’s geological hazard monitoring system, needed a cost-effective way to support the public and emergency services organizations for earthquake notifications. The company uses AWS to host mobile applications that notify users about events such as tremors, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis and sends millions of notifications when they occur. By turning to AWS, the GeoNet Project can deliver critical notifications to tens of thousands of concurrent users for NZ$2,500 per month instead of the NZ$750,000 it would have cost to build the same solution using conventional SMS technologies.

Gibraltar Area Schools in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, was balancing the expense of aging servers with the realities of a limited state budget. The district decided to forgo local infrastructure in favor of a scalable AWS environment—saving themselves an estimated 25 percent in hardware costs over the next 5 years. The district is using the savings to buy laptops for students and build out a wireless network on campus.

Using AWS Gilt can keep its customers’ data safe with virtual private networks, security groups, and other features supporting security, while expediting software deployments and updates with AWS CodeDeploy. Gilt is an online website that provides insider access to top fashion brands at deeply discounted prices. The company moved from an on-premises data center to AWS to leverage the speed and efficiency of a cloud-based microservices infrastructure.

GoAnimate is a web application that lets users easily create cartoon animations, for free, without having to draw. The company has seen its development time reduced through its use of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS.

GOL Airlines developed an Intranet system that can offer diverse entertainment options to passengers in flight. By combining an innovative concept with the technical expertise of AWS, the airline gained agility and faster time-to-market without the expense of on-premises equipment.

Goodman Group is a leading international industrial property group based in Sydney, Australia. Working with APN partner Ujelo Solutions, the company migrated from Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 running on the AWS Cloud. As a result, Goodman Group avoided $400,000 in capital expenditures, improved scalability, and extended its redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities.

GoSquared provides customer analytics services for web and mobile companies. The company moved the development and production environments of its analytics platform from a traditional IT infrastructure to the AWS cloud. Using AWS, the startup can process billions of customer data points daily ingested directly from its customers’ CRM, support, and marketing systems located on four continents.

GranBio is a Brazilian industrial biotech company that produces biofuel and second-generation biochemicals like paints and resins. Granbio is using AWS to run nearly all of its development and production workloads including its SAP Business One application. By launching on AWS, GranBio estimates that it saves 20% on OPEX.

GREE creates popular game titles for mobile platforms. The company turned to AWS to run its mobile games (including Modern War, Crime City, and War of Nations), and its data analytics pipeline. With AWS, GREE can provision new IT resources in less than 45 seconds, as compared to hours and days with its prior IT infrastructure, while processing more than 500 GB of player logs each day.

GumGum provides a new kind of advertising platform dedicated to creating brand engagement alongside premium editorial content. The company uses a broad range of AWS services for advertising analytics, with results that are used to match ads to consumer preferences. By using AWS, GumGum can efficiently process 6 TB daily with 24/7 reliability and can scale to meet spikes in data throughput.

HashCube is a social gaming company that creates puzzle games on social networks. After experiencing uptime issues, HashCube moved to AWS and improved reliablity by almost 100%.

Seattle-based HasOffers uses AWS to operate a service for managing advertising performance. The company processes and analyzes massive data sets of advertising events each month using AWS.

Haven Power serves the electricity needs of business customers in the East of England. The company began using AWS for disaster recovery, and has since migrated its billing services and data warehouse to AWS. By using AWS, the company has seen response times drop from 500 milliseconds to 80 milliseconds and saved significant upfront capital expenditure by deciding not to upgrade its on-premise data center.

Healthdirect Australia uses AWS to deliver services quickly across the entire country, including remote areas, while controlling costs and supporting a 300 percent growth in one year in the number of unique visitors to its websites. The public company provides a range of health and related services, information, and advice, and operates Australia’s National Health Services Directory. It uses a range of AWS products to support its web presence and deliver information to doctors, clinics and hospitals, and consumers.

Hearst Corporation is one of America’s largest diversified media companies with ownership of newspapers, magazines, television stations, and various other interests. The enterprise wanted to get out of the business of running IT infrastructure and is currently migrating 10 of its 29 global data centers to AWS. By using AWS instead of investing in traditional on-premises IT infrastructure, Hearst avoided a multimillion dollar investment and completed its IT infrastructure consolidation in one-fifth of the expected time.

When Hess Corporation announced divestiture plans for its downstream businesses in March 2013, the IT department decided to migrate the associated infrastructure in a way that would completely uncouple dependence from its on-premises datacenter. Working with APN partner, Nimbo, Hess leveraged AWS to prepare its Energy Marketing business for acquisition in only 6 months — a process that would have taken twice as long with an on-premises environment.

HG Data provides a database of competitive intelligence for the technology industry and measures success by responding quickly to customer demand. By building its competitive intelligence database on AWS, the company can index billions of documents daily, use APIs to automate operations, and respond to customer data requests in hours instead of months. Furthermore, the company estimates reducing CAPEX by at least 50 percent.

Hi-Media is the Internet publisher of the Fotolog photo blogging website. Hi-Media rebuilt the site and moved it to AWS where it can easily scale to meet the demands of Fotolog’s 32 million global users who have collectively posted 1 billion photos and 10 billion comments.

Hiree is a Bangalore-based web portal with a focus on expediting the hiring process and helping jobseekers find get offers fast. The company uses AWS to run all of its operations, including its website, business intelligence platform, and a real-time recommendation engine that helps its users quickly find job openings that fit their profile. By using AWS, the company achieves high availability for more than 250,000 job seekers and 8,000 employers.

Hitachi is a multinational conglomerate that helps enterprises manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure running on AWS with services such as IT consulting, architecting and development services, technical support, and SaaS enablement. Since 2013, Hitachi has trained more than 200 of its Solution Architects to improve how they support its customers' cloud deployments. As a result, Hitachi's Solution Architects can now be involved in more aspects of the company, including interacting with customers, being involved with sales cycles, and supporting expansion of the business.

The Holiday Extras website (holidayextras.com) sells airport parking, hotels, travel insurance, and other travel add-ons. In order to deal with seasonal peaks and troughs, and to meet its goal of developing hassle-free customer technology, the company moved their infrastructure to AWS and reduced latency by 20%.

Holiday Extras is a leading online provider of travel add-ons. After successfully migrating its customer-facing websites to AWS, the company moved its internal finance application to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Moving to AWS increased the speed and reliability of the financial application, providing Holiday Extras with up-to-the-minute financial figures and enabling it to make faster business decisions.

Hotelogix is a web-based hotel management system developed by HMS Infotech. Hotelogix allows hospitality venues to conduct all of their daily activities, such as reservations and front desk operations, from a unified system that does not require any additional hardware or software expenses. HMS Infotech created Hotelogix's infrastructure using Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS and Amazon S3.

AdRoll, a global leader in online retargeting platforms, needed a reliable global infrastructure to deliver high performance without incurring substantial operating or capital expenses. The company turned to AWS to build, deploy, and manage its advertising retargeting platform. As a result, AdRoll has been able to reduce fixed costs by 75 percent and annual operational costs by 83 percent, and can now focus on developing products and services instead of managing infrastructure.

Human Recognition Systems (HRS) is a pioneer in applying biometric technology to the challenges of identity, ensuring that its customers have safe and secure workplaces. It offers a three-product software suite, which it is gradually migrating to an AWS infrastructure, away from deployments at customer sites. Moving to AWS enables greater scalability, flexibility, and elasticity for HRS and its customers.

Migrating to AWS in 2008 helped Hungama Digital Media Entertainment reduce IT costs and accelerate innovation and time-to-market. As more development teams migrated to AWS, Hungama turned to AWS Trusted Advisor to optimize its environment on AWS and reduced monthly costs by 33%.

IATA, the trade association for the world’s airlines, develops global standards upon which the air transport industry is built. The company also provides financial and business intelligence (BI) services to others in the industry. By migrating its BI platform from an on-premises data center to AWS, IATA can provision new working environments in minutes instead of days and provide new capabilities for processing and storing data.

iFit, the technology division of ICON Health & Fitness, enables millions of users to connect with each other, share information, and exercise using Google Street View of locations anywhere in the world. By using AWS, iFit can handle 30,000 requests per second without downtime, process tens of millions of images per month, and create production clone sandboxes on demand within minutes for faster development cycles.

Idomoo was founded in 2007 and is one of the first-to-market communication solutions that combine the compelling power of video with personally relevant, individualized data. Looking for a solution to advance their business to the next stage, Idomoo now uses AWS to support their entire end-to-end solution and saves up to 8 times in video generation costs.

IE University, located in Madrid, is a top international business graduate school that incorporates a significant online component. Using an AWS solution, the school improved access to more than 99.9 percent uptime for students and instructors located worldwide.

iFlix built a business with 30 developers and signed up 450,000 customers in five months--which quickly grew to one million customers two months after that--using  AWS. The company is an on-demand video startup expanding throughout Southeast Asia. iFlix uses a broad range of AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway.

The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) is one of the world’s most popular and authoritative sources for movie, TV and celebrity content with more than 100 million unique visitors per month. IMDb uses AWS and Amazon CloudFront to host search data, making the search experience the fastest possible by distributing the content physically close to IMDb's worldwide user base.

When Italian pasta-machine manufacturers Imperia and Monferrina merged in 2010, they used AWS to host Oracle eBusiness Suite as a single ERP solution for the two organizations. By not investing in traditional infrastructure, the company reduced their capital expenditure by 50%.

London-based startup import.io provides an online tool that can be used for scraping data from any website, enabling users to turn website information into structured data and APIs. The company turned to AWS to run its web-data analytics service. By using AWS, the 25-person company can focus on developing the product instead of buying and maintaining IT infrastructure, enabling it to deliver continuous feature improvements while easily scaling to handle billions of transactions annually.

Impossible Software is using AWS to provide a scalable global platform that allows its customers to render hundreds of personalized videos per second. The company provides a web-based video-rendering service, so customers can produce videos to convey unique information or marketing messages to thousands of their own customers. Impossible Software uses AWS for its editing, rendering, and logging environments, taking advantage of services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway relies on AWS to stream live motor sport races to over 3.1 million visitors to its online platform while scaling to manage huge traffic spikes and maintaining control of computing costs.

Infor is one of the world's leading providers of enterprise software solutions, offering SaaS solutions to more than 70,000 global customers. The company leverages the flexibility of Amazon Web Services to give customers a subscription-based delivery model that significantly reduces their upfront capital expenditures.

InfoSpace, a leading provider of search monetization solutions, wanted to expand its infrastructure to be closer to customers and its global network of more than 100 partners. Using AWS, InfoSpace migrated its full data center within 6 months and can now easily manage its Microsoft stack on AWS.

Infraware is a software development company that makes Polaris Office, a free mobile application that lets users read, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents on desktops and mobile devices. Infraware turned to AWS to deliver its software to mobile users worldwide and run its customer-analytics platform. By using AWS, Infraware delivers its productivity app to 10 million registered users worldwide, who benefit from low latency and fast file transfer speeds.

SingTel Digital Media needed a faster time-to-market and wanted a more cost-effective way of increasing capacity to support traffic to its web properties. SingTel turned to AWS to host, deliver and store all website content for InSing.com and HungryGoWhere.com. As a result, the organization reduced development time from more than three months to one month, eliminated the cost of buying new servers for extra compute capacity, and gained access to infrastructure on demand.

Instacart allows people to order groceries online by connecting them with personal shoppers who hand pick items at the customers' favorite local stores and deliver them straight to their doors. Instacart uses AWS CodeDeploy to automate deployment operations for all of its front-end and back-end services. Using AWS CodeDeploy has enabled Instacart’s developers to focus on their product and worry less about deployment operations.

Instructure offers an online learning management system called Canvas that is used by more than 1,200 colleges, universities, and school districts around the world. Instructure runs testing and production workloads for Canvas on AWS. The scalability of AWS enables the company to handle large spikes in traffic caused by more than 200,000 concurrent users while protecting the confidentiality of its customers’ data.

Instructure provides a learning management system that enables instructors to create and deliver course content over the Internet. Using AWS Enterprise Support has allowed Instructure to turn its operations team into a center for innovation rather than just a reactive issue-response unit.

Interflora Spain is a business unit of Fleurop-Interflor, the Swiss-based company that operates a floral delivery network doing business in 150 countries. Interflora Spain uses AWS to run its customer-facing e-commerce platform and backend systems, including its Microsoft Dynamics ERP system and big data, business intelligence, and data backup projects. By using AWS, the company can handle seasonal spikes in orders, can quickly and easily update its e-commerce platform, and has made internal business processes more efficient.

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is part of a large international team currently developing the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) — a Universe-mapping radio telescope of unprecedented size and sensitivity. By using AWS to manage crowd-sourced CPU cycles, ICRAR has the compute capacity to analyze between 400 and 500 galaxies simultaneously.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a U.N. agency that develops and monitors international standards and practices for civil aviation regulations. ICAO uses to AWS to conduct predictive analysis of future aviation needs, to develop and test new solutions based on those findings, and to deliver airport data to users. By using AWS, the ICAO gained greater stability, reliability, and higher performance than its previous IT infrastructure, allowing organization staff to focus on developing its services.

Intuit provides financial and tax preparation software for small businesses, accountants, and individuals worldwide. The company began using AWS to host TurboTax AnswerXchange, an application that was only active during tax season, reducing its cost by a factor of six. Today, Intuit runs 33 applications on AWS and plans to move the rest of them the cloud in the coming years. Using AWS enables Intuit to reach new markets, speed development, and better serve its customers.

InvestLab provides financial services and products for the global investment market. Using AWS, InvestLab was able to deploy servers in a single day, resulting in faster delivery of market data to customers, and decreased the cost of product development by 40%.

iTrueMart is a leading online retailer in Thailand. The company turned to AWS to run its e-commerce website and to support traffic generated by more than 1.6 million users. By using AWS, the company is more agile in adding new features and functions to the site and can provision new IT resources in minutes instead of hours.

The Brazilian social networking platform itsNOON supports the development of creative web-based projects. The organization partnered with Santander Bank to create a financial-success-stories website that runs on AWS. By using AWS, itsNOON gained low cost of entry, ease of use, and flexible storage capacity for the project.

ITV is a commercial television network in the UK that operates regional TV services and provides programming that is shared across its network of channels. The company’s digital services division moved from a legacy IT infrastructure to AWS to run its test and production environments. By using AWS, ITV has the agility to experiment with new services using a cloud infrastructure it designed and deployed in about four weeks.

Fast-growing startup Ividata launched an innovative big-data product, Ivizone, which allows retailers to measure customer metrics and maximize marketing efforts. In 2014, it migrated its retail analytics tool to Amazon Web Services. Ividata now has a scalable, agile platform, and its monthly data-storage bill is 1000 times smaller than with its previous solution.

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana is the largest community college in the United States. The college uses Amazon Redshift and Amazon Simple Storage Service to run analytics tools to glean insights from more than 1.7 million student records, and then archives data in Amazon Glacier. With the AWS solution, Ivy Tech can meet its petabyte-scale data needs while avoiding unnecessary IT expenses.

Jaspersoft provides a flexible and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards, and analysis. By joining the AWS Marketplace, Jaspersoft can integrate with AWS services and analyze data in minutes at less than one-tenth the cost of a BI server.

Europe-based jobandtalent is a job-matching platform that uses proprietary algorithms to connect job candidates with openings. The company uses AWS to run all of its operations, including its web application, a business-intelligence platform, and a real-time recommendation engine that helps customers quickly find job openings that fit their profile. By using AWS, jobandtalent can scale to handle an influx of more than 500,000 users per month, and can manage up to 60,000 requests per minute during peak traffic periods.

Jobvite is a recruiting platform for the social web that integrates applicant tracking, employee referrals, recruitment marketing, and video interviews under one cloud-based platform. After experiencing unexpected service interruptions, the company decided to migrate its entire platform—including its databases, application servers, reporting framework, and email notification services—to AWS. By taking advantage of AWS, Jobvite has decreased its operational costs by 35 percent and increased the availability of its application to better than 99.98 percent.

JustGiving is one of the world’s largest online sites for supporting charitable causes. The organization turned to AWS to run its test and production environments and to host a new big-data analytics platform. With AWS, JustGiving has better access to more data points and uses only the computing power it needs, helping the cost-conscious organization save money.

J. Walter Thompson (JWT) is a global marketing communications company with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries. Working with APN partner, CTERA Networks, the company migrated its on-premises tape backup solution to AWS. JWT's Africa-Middle East Region reports 63% in cost reduction on its backup solution running on AWS.

Kaplan is a global provider of educational services for individuals, schools, and businesses. After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Kaplan migrated the datacenter hosting applications and databases for the Kaplan Test Prep division to the AWS Cloud. As a result, Kaplan has reduced its datacenter footprint and improved user experience by leveraging multiple AWS regions to deliver content faster to its customers around the world.

Kasturi & Sons Ltd (KSL) operates The Hindu Group of Publications and delivers content in print, Web, mobile, and tablet formats in India. The company’s digital products division, KSL Digital ventures, turned to AWS to host its first web application, roofandfloor.com. By running on AWS, KSL Digital ventures was able to launch the app in just three months and achieved 99.95 percent availability.

Kempinski Hotels, an international luxury hotel group based in Geneva, Switzerland, wanted to lower costs and improve its infrastructure. Moving to AWS allows Kempinski to focus on improving core processes instead of IT while saving an estimated 40% in IT costs over a five-year period.

Kenshoo is a global software company that makes products that empower businesses to build brands and generate demand across marketing channels. The company uses AWS to develop and launch new products including a SaaS platform for social marketing across Facebook and Twitter. Moving to AWS has allowed Kenshoo to reduce time to market by 70%.

KeptMe is an innovative Hong Kong–based startup that provides teachers and parents with a cloud-based platform they can use to collaborate on each child’s educational development. It partnered with AWS in 2012 and subsequently expanded to more than 4,000 schools in nine different countries.  

Kim Teck Cheong (KTC) is a family-run business that provides fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distribution, trading, and logistics management in Eastern Malaysia. With the help of AWS partner G–Asiapacific, KTC was able to migrate its SAP Business One and Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications from a local data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in only three months. Running on the AWS Cloud has allowed KTC to expand its business services to three new subsidiaries while maintaining a three-person IT staff.

King County is the most populous county in Washington State with about 1.9 million residents. The county needed a more efficient and cost-effective solution to replace a tape-based backup system used to store information generated by 17 different county agencies. It turned to AWS for long-term archiving and storage using Amazon Glacier and NetApp’s AltaVault solution, which helps the county meet federal security standards, including HIPAA and the Criminal Justice Information Services regulations. The county is saving about $1 million in the first year by not having to replace outdated servers, and projects an annual savings of about $200,000 by reducing operational costs related to data storage.

Based in Shanghai, China, Kingnet Technology develops games for worldwide social networks. With an estimated 30 million installations and 6 million daily active users, Kingnet Technology uses AWS to provide its infrastructure capable of handling tremendous volume.

Knewton, an education technology company, makes it possible to personalize learning applications in order to improve student achievement in grades K-12 and higher education. The company uses AWS to manage and deliver content to millions of students as well as power its analytics platform to adapt content to each user. By using AWS, Knewton can collaborate with partners worldwide and scale to manage traffic spikes during traditional school cycles.

French startup Kobojo develops games for Facebook and mobile devices, including Goobox, PyramidValley, and AtlantisFantasy. Kobojo uses AWS to improve product scalability and availability, and now runs 90 Amazon EC2 instances.

Koding’s mission is to empower developers and to help drive developer and team productivity, communication, and collaboration. Koding runs its cloud development platform on AWS. By doing so, Koding has been able to decrease its feature release time for customers from quarterly to weekly, and has been able to refocus its team on product development rather than infrastructure maintenance.

Krunchtime, an AWS consulting partner, uses the AWS Cloud to create cloud-based solutions for businesses in Australia. Using AWS, Krunchtime helps customers reduce capital expenditures and accelerate the development and deployment of products and services.

Kurt Geiger is a retailer for high-end shoes and accessories. After migrating its websites to AWS, the company was able to scale to handle a 400% increase in page views, driving twice as many transactions during peak periods.

Kyowa Hakko Kirin began using AWS with its production run for SAP ERP, an enterprise resource-planning software. Kyowa Hakko Kirin is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures and sells prescription drugs. As the company continues migrating nearly all its systems and data off of physical servers and into the cloud, it is making further progress and reducing costs through strategies such as using reserved instances and stopping unnecessary instances on weekends. The company is developing its cloud data center as a result.

LabSlice uses Amazon EC2 to help businesses create demos, product evaluations, and training environments. As a service management platform for Amazon EC2, LabSlice enables its customers to increase computing efficiency while significantly decreasing infrastructure costs.

Lafarge is the world leader in building materials that neeed high peformance for its active corporate website and 22 country websites. Using AWS gives Lafarge the elasticity to instantaneously add or remove instances in order to manage website load during peak periods.

LatentView Analytics provides analytics solutions to financial services, consumer goods, and retail companies, and needed a way to deploy its services globally. The company moved to AWS and saved 60% compared to a traditional data center, enabling rapid scalability worldwide.

Lenddo enables businesses to simply and securely evaluate the risk of extending credit to low- or no-credit individuals using alternative data and predictive algorithms. Prompted by continued growth, the company rearchitected its long-term data storage and credit modeling solution on AWS using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3. As a result, Lenddo can scale to support routine calculations involving millions of social data points in minutes while reducing monthly IT spend by 40 percent.

LIFEPLAT is a social-network website that connects people through common interests. The company uses AWS to deliver high-speed images to website users while providing reliable and unlimited file storage. 

LightInTheBox (LITB) is a supply chain service with B2C retail service, serving more than 1 million customers a day from more than 200 countries. LITB, facing rapid business growth and IT resource constraints, uses AWS to run its business operations and store product and transactional data.

After creating software that helps individuals with dyslexia, Lingit turned to Atbrox, a Norwegian-based company focusing on data mining/data analysis and cloud-based solutions, to assist with up to terabyte-sized structured sets of texts.

Linxo provides automated services for tablets and mobile devices that enable users to visualize and understand their spending. The start-up chose AWS as a more flexible alternative to on-premises hardware—one that would provide scalability for growth while meeting compliance requirements.

LIONSGATE is a diversified global entertainment corporation that produces feature films and television shows, which they distribute worldwide. The company used Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon EC2 to reduce costs, increase flexibility, improve security, reduce time to deploy infrastructure, and simplify backup and data recovery procedures.

LIONSGATE maintains a library of 15,000 motion picture titles while continually releasing new movies and prime-time television programs for a global audience. Since 2010, the company’s diversified and geographically dispersed business units have collaborated using Microsoft SharePoint running in Amazon VPC.

LiteracyPlanet provides products and services that use gaming techniques to improve children’s literacy. The business runs its LiteracyPlanet learning platform, a website, and a word building application called Word Mania in AWS. Using AWS has helped LiteracyPlanet achieve 99.999 percent availability, scale to support a tenfold increase in concurrent user sessions, and deploy applications in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks.

Localytics provides marketing and analytics software that helps major brands understand the effectiveness of their mobile and web apps. Localytics uses AWS Lambda to create microservices that ingest Amazon Simple Storage Service files and Kinesis data streams comprising about 100 billion data points each month. By using AWS Lambda, its engineering staff can access data streams without involving the platform team so new services get to customers faster.

Logentries is a software-as-a-service provider of real-time log management and analytics services to a range of clients worldwide, from Fortune 100 companies to individual developers. Logentries worked with AWS from day one, using AWS services to get its log management solution to market fast. The easy setup and quick scalability of AWS have enabled Logentries to scale from zero users in 2011 to more than 35,000 users across 100 countries today.

California-based Loggly provides logging as a service to help customers identify and resolve issues in real time. The company designed its service on AWS in order to provide customers with a pay-as-you-go model.

Lonely Planet, publisher of guides, mobile applications and websites for world travelers, developed a shared publishing platform to streamline the process of content. By migrating to AWS, Lonely Planet has been able to reduce the cost of running the platform by 30% and implement automated build processes that allow developers to create an end-to-end environment in minutes.

Based in Melbourne Australia, Loop11 is a remote usability testing tool that enables web developers to test the user experience of any website and identify navigational and usability issues quickly and cost effectively. To help ensure optimal scalability, the company uses AWS  for several components of its architecture, including Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, ELB, and Amazon RDS.

Using AWS has enabled Loyalty New Zealand to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in initial capital costs for a physical infrastructure, reduce the time to provision infrastructure resources from more than three months to 15 minutes, and establish a resilient, dynamic platform for future rewards program development. Loyalty New Zealand, which operates out of Wellington and Auckland, owns and runs Fly Buys, New Zealand’s largest rewards program with more than 2.4 million customers. It also owns Lab360, a full-service data and analytics business. Fly Buys New Zealand is running on LoyaltyCloud—an internally developed multi-program, multi-currency loyalty platform—in an AWS infrastructure.

Macmillan India needed to move its SAP system from an on-premises data center to improve distribution of textbooks to students. By moving to AWS, Macmillan India has boosted SAP system availability to almost 100% and expects a 30 percent reduction in OPEX year over year.

Madhouse is one of China's leading mobile marketing services providers. By using AWS, the company launched a complete mobile advertising service platform in just a few days while saving 30% in IT infrastructure costs and successfully expanded its mobile advertising business to India.

Israeli video creation and sharing service Magisto built its service on AWS so that it could launch quickly, scale to meet the needs of millions of users, and process massive amounts of videos. The company uses AWS to host its video editing tool and store and process more than 800 TB of data. Using AWS allowed Magisto to scale up and serve its 40 million customers.

When Mahindra Satyam needed a way to share and manage documents for one of its clients, a top three global pharmaceutical company, it turned to AWS for a solution. Using various AWS products and services, including Amazon EC2, Mahindra Satyam delivers a secure, reliable, and effective result.

Makewaves provides a social badging platform used by more than 5,000 schools and 70,000 students in England. The small company faced scalability and reliability challenges using an on-premises server infrastructure. It turned to AWS to run its platform, achieving 99.99 percent reliability and gaining the ability to scale on demand as the business grows, with a pay-as-you-go model that costs 50 percent less than the old system.

Headquartered in India, Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) is a leading international provider of high-quality higher-education services. The company runs 70 percent of its workloads, including campaign management and digital marketing, student management, learning management, assessment, and websites, in AWS. This has enabled the company to manage seasonal peaks, and improve availability and performance of its websites while reducing operational costs by 20-25 percent.

MAPFRE is the largest insurance seller in Spain and Latin America. The company saved €1.3 million in infrastructure costs and reduced development time from weeks to days by switching to Amazon Web Services from an on-premises solution.

Marine Desk wanted to launch a web-based bidding platform to enable ship owners and operators to buy bunker fuel more efficiently. Using the AWS Cloud and working with consulting partner BlazeClan Technologies, Marine Desk launched the platform in four months and achieved 99.99% availability.

The MarketSimplified mobile platform for the financial industry uses a variety of infrastructure web services, including Amazon EC2, ELB, and Amazon S3 to enable end users to access, trade, and manage investments securely and reliably.

Matchmove is a platform-as-a-service company that provides Matchmove Wallet, an online mobile payment service. The startup worked with AWS Advanced Technology Partner Trend Micro to create, deploy, and manage Matchmove Wallet on AWS. By using AWS, Matchmove was able to launch its product while minimizing infrastructure time and money expenditures, and can meet stringent PCI requirements for its product.

International flavor company McCormick has created a new service, FlavorPrint, which generates individual flavor profiles for consumers based on culinary tastes. McCormick uses AWS to host the FlavorPrint website and store user profiles, photographs, and how-to videos. By using AWS, McCormick was able to create an entirely new way to present its products to customers, and along the way, double capacity and reduced infrastructure costs by over 50% and has the scalability to serve the rapidly growing number of users.

AWS provided the agile infrastructure platform that allowed Australia’s ME Bank to reduce development and testing environment costs by 75%. As a result, the bank was able to refresh its key technology systems on schedule and on budget.

MediaMolecule is a game developer based in the U.K. that is now part of Sony Worldwide Studio. The company has released two games, LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2. In order to serve about 1 TB of traffic per day, the company uses several AWS features, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Elastic IP Addresses.

MediaTek designs and develops silicon wafers for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The Taiwan-based company uses AWS to deploy its services internationally, giving its IoT developers access to the company network, so they can access dashboards, manage devices, and upgrade firmware remotely. By using AWS, MediaTek has reduced its time to development by 50 percent and expanded globally.

Medscheme has established a revolutionary healthcare delivery model using an electronic health record system based on Amazon Web Services. The company offers award-winning health risk management solutions to healthcare providers and patients. Medscheme’s platform allows providers to share and access information regarding a patient’s entire healthcare journey to deliver better, more coordinated care.

MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, wanted to offer patients an easy way to search for doctors, medical services, and locations, and to make appointments. To deliver a patient-first experience, the healthcare system decided to combine its disparate websites into a single, searchable portal using AWS. By creating a centralized patient engagement portal on AWS, MedStar has dramatically increased website availability and page download speeds, while lowering monthly operating costs for the portal by more than 40 percent.

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.

Meteor Development Group offers an open-source JavaScript web application platform called Meteor, which helps developers easily build modern apps. The company built its new Galaxy cloud service to run Meteor apps for its customers using the Amazon EC2 Container Service. Now, Meteor has a simple way to orchestrate and manage its Galaxy container clusters, and it can deliver the high availability and scalability its customers require.

Millésima, a French fine wine merchant, decided to diversify its offering by opening an on-line store in 1999. To support their customers’ online purchasing habits, Millésima migrated its ecommerce activities into the AWS Cloud. With the pay-as-you-go pricing model, and flexible, scalable infrastructure, Millésima has been able to reduce complexity, and scale at traffic spikes during peak online buying periods.

With 70 million active users, Miniclip is among the world’s largest online gaming sites. Needing to improve time to market, Miniclip migrated its entire web and mobile gaming service from multiple on-premises data centers to AWS. The company reduced its time to market by 97% and reassigned 66% of its operations staff to work on more strategic projects using AWS.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM)  selected AWS to power its new over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service, Bam-Tec. MLBAM is the digital products and services division of Major League Baseball. The technology behind Bam-Tec has been used to successfully stream highly anticipated events such as WWE matches, HBO's Game of Thrones, the PGA tour and, in the near future, National Hockey League (NHL) games. MLBAM also has worked with AWS to enhance the game of baseball through its Player Tracking System— marketed as Statcast—which lets fans consume more data behind the plays and players.

Premier games content site My Media Gaming Network (MMGN) was struggling with the infrastructure and bandwidth costs generated by high traffic volumes. Using AWS, the company reduced its operating costs by 50% and its bandwidth costs by 90%, and scaled to support its corporate clients and the gaming community.

mobli is a social photo-and video-sharing app used by millions of consumers worldwide. With AWS, the company was able to reduce infrastructure costs by 45 percent and decrease IT maintenance time.

The Moovit app helps public transportation users worldwide plan trips based on their location and destination. Moovit uses AWS to host its fast-growing mobile app, delivering its service to users in across 400 cities in 35 countries. By using AWS, Moovit has realized a 75 percent cost savings, handled 85 million daily requests, and provided its service to nearly 10 million new users in 2 years.

MovieStarPlanet develops and runs interactive social network games for young people 8–15 years old. It has moved its infrastructure from local data centers and now hosts all its games on AWS. Now it can handle 30 percent more users, who are more active than ever before, at 20 percent lower cost.

Customers use the video development service movinary to create, share, and store text-enhanced videos from photos. Using AWS enabled movinary to start small and scale fast, going from a local environment to production in one month.

MPAC runs its core property valuation engine 5,000 percent faster at one-tenth the cost using AWS instead of its older IT architecture. MPAC—the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation—is a public sector organization responsible for providing valuations for more than 5 million properties across Canada. The company moved from its traditional IT architecture to be more responsive and agile in serving its customers.

As its digital publishing business grew, MPS Technologies began to look for a secure and cost-effective way to grow its infrastructure. By using AWS, MPS is able to implement a high level of security, consistent with its on-premise environment, and the company projects a reduction of $450,000 in capital expenditures over a three-year period.

The 600 consultants at msg global solutions deliver expertise to clients worldwide in the insurance industry. Having reached the performance limits of its on-premises infrastructure, the company chose AWS to run SAP for Insurance solutions. Processes are now optimized, services are delivered faster, and the company anticipates it will save $500,000 over the next five years.

MyDress enables fashion labels in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan to sell clothes and accessories to customers in Hong Kong. MyDress runs a Magento e-commerce platform and associated systems on AWS rather than having to invest in a physical datacenter. Using AWS, the company can support an average growth rate of 70 percent per year and marketing campaigns that can increase traffic by up to 100 percent, while reducing operating expenditure by 20 percent per year over two years.

Myriad Group is a French-Swiss software company that develops white-labeled cellphone software as well as Versy, a social networking application it markets directly to Latin American consumers. The company consolidated 16 different legacy IT systems into one on AWS. By using AWS, it was able to launch a new version of Versy with just 12 people—instead of the 120 it would have required in the past—while growing its customer user base nearly five-fold in one year.

mytaxi designed a microservice architecture on AWS using Docker containers that is fast and scales easily, to address extraordinary spikes in demand on days such as New Year's Eve. The company runs Europe's leading taxi app, connecting 10 million users with 45,000 taxis in 40 cities. The entire infrastructure is built on AWS, where services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS support mytaxi's Docker containers.

Ad tech company myThings empowers advertisers by providing them with visibility into the performance patterns of their audiences. The company uses AWS to provide a highly available, scalable big-data processing system to handle the 5 billion ad impressions it personalizes each month. By using AWS, the company has been able to expand to two new markets and experience 99.999% availability.

The California-based arts nonprofit NaNoWriMo uses AWS to ensure always-on availability and low latency for its popular website. By using AWS, the company can scale to 100x its normal traffic as hundreds of thousands of users hit the site on the first day of November, National Novel Writing Month.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses Amazon EC2 to process high resolution satellite images that provide guidance and situational awareness to its robots. To streamline processing, JPL relies on Amazon Cluster Compute Cloud Instances and Amazon SQS to deploy massive computations with less effort.

Amazon SWF is a key computing technology that drives several applications that process and reliably archive huge volumes of space and earth science data at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). With Amazon SWF, mission critical applications that previously took months to develop, test and deploy, now take days.

NASDAQ OMX is the largest exchange company in the world and currently owns and operates 24 markets, three clearing houses and five central securities spanning six continents. Their technology powers 70 exchanges in 50 countries. The company’s Global Data Products division uses Amazon S3 to store data used by its Market Replay and Data-On-Demand products, applications that allows customers to quickly access historical stock price information through a front end application and raw files.

NDI works to support democratic institutions worldwide. The organization moved to AWS to bolster its website’s security and improve at an affordable cost. By moving to AWS, the company secured its data, improved availability, and reduced costs by 90%.

NRE is a centralized online source of rail information in the UK, accessed by travelers all over the country. By using AWS, NRE reduced costs by 20% and eliminated unnecessary infrastructure while providing consistent service to users, even with loads up to 60% higher than normal.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the primary laboratory for renewable energy research in the United States. NREL is running an application environment, which hosts several renewable energy data repositories, on AWS. As a result, the organization can launch new websites in days instead of weeks and share energy data with thousands of researchers across the globe while reducing data curation costs by nearly 30 percent.

Fast Crypto Lab is a research group within National Taiwan University, whose activities focus on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms to solve important mathematical problems, as well as the development and implementation of these algorithms on massively parallel computers. To meet their computational needs, the group uses Amazon EC2 with Cluster GPU Instances, Amazon EMR, and Amazon CloudWatch.

The largest membership organization in the UK, the National Trust protects and preserves historic houses, landscapes, and gardens. It runs its single supporter view (SSV) data warehouse on AWS technologies, enabling a 360-degree view of all its supporters’ relationships and interactions. By using AWS for the SSV, the National Trust has kept total cost of ownership to a third of the cost of a traditional data warehouse, while gaining significant insight into visiting habits to maximize marketing efforts and drive the organization forward.

Naughty Dog is the developer of the Uncharted game franchise, in addition to other notable titles for the Sony PlayStation family of consoles. The company hosts online game components, including multiplayer functionality, with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront. This service stack offers a 90% savings over Naughty Dog’s on-premise option, in addition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

NDTV is one of India’s largest broadcast companies, with three national news channels that reach a combined audience of more than 1 billion people across India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The company’s digital products division chose AWS to support its websites, mobile sites, and apps. NDTV now uses a broad range of AWS services to manage peak loads of more than 600,000 simultaneous users with 30 percent lower capital expenses compared to operating an on-premises data center.

Australian company nearmap provides geospatial mapping technology to thousands of businesses and government organizations. Using AWS, nearmap has dramatically lowered its operating costs despite accruing several hundred terabytes of survey data.

Neowiz, a South Korean game company, needed a flexible, highly available infrastructure to continue to grow globally. Neowiz uses AWS to add new resources in about five minutes, enabling the company to focus on developing games instead of managing IT.

The New York City Department of Transportation aims to improve the safety of all New Yorkers. The organization has leveraged the cloud to build web applications that support the city’s Vision Zero and ACCESSIBILITY initiatives, including Vision Zero View and iRide NYC. By using the cloud, the organization can scale its applications to support usage spikes and improve information accessibility for everyone including those with disabilities.

NEWLOG Consulting, an Italian-based consulting firm, wanted a cost-effective alternative to its on-site environment and manual backup operations. By using the AWS Storage Gateway, NEWLOG was able to implement backup and disaster recovery solutions to protect and store critical data while saving approximately 30 percent in infrastructure costs over a three-year period.

News Corp Australia publishes newspapers, websites, and movies. News Corp Australia uses AWS Enterprise Support to optimize its cloud deployments on AWS and achieve new IT efficiencies. By leveraging AWS Support, News Corp Australia was able to reduce the time spent to cycle up new instances from a couple hours to the 20-minute windows that the business required.

NDN provides a global media exchange for publishers and content creators, enabling 146 million users a month to watch videos online—and enabling publishers and creators to share in the profits. When NDN was building its disruptive content model, it chose AWS for its content delivery platform to leverage its scalability and predictable costs. Now, by using AWS, NDN ingests and stores more than 100,000 videos each month and serves 600 million videos to users all over the world.

News International uses AWS to power its digital services and platforms across the web, mobile devices and tablets. With AWS, the company has built a high-speed transactional platform that has improved both customer experience and the ability to drive incremental sales of its products.

News UK is one of Britain’s largest news organizations, publishing 2.4 million newspapers every day. The company migrated some of its enterprise applications including SAP Business Objects, SAP GRC, and Oracle Enterprise Manager from traditional data centers to AWS. By using AWS, the publisher has shortened its time to market for new development projects from 6 months to 1 day and reduced its data center footprint from six to two facilities.

Newsweek specializes in print and online news coverage for a wide range of topics, including politics, business, and world events. Since 2009, the publication has reduced operating costs seventy-five percent by employing AWS as the foundation of its online presence. Newsweek's infrastructure was built using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront. Newsweek also uses Amazon Route 53, which saves the publication ninety-three percent in Domain Name System costs.

Nexon is a leading South Korean video game developer. The company uses AWS to build and distribute its games to an international audience as well as run its analytics platform. Nexon, which faces unpredictable volumes of users based on the popularity of game titles, uses AWS and works with APN Advanced Consulting Partner Megazone to avoid the high costs and IT resource planning challenges associated with on-premises systems.

Next Media is a media, entertainment, and gaming services business with annual revenues of HK$3 billion. The company is running its Hong Kong news and entertainment websites and mobile applications in AWS. Moving to AWS has enabled Next Media to launch new applications in half the time at existing operating cost levels while eliminating the need to purchase up to 50 new servers

Nextdoor is a rapidly growing private social network that connects people with their neighbors. The company runs the Nextdoor website and a data analytics solution on AWS, powering more than 69,000 neighborhoods across the United States. Using AWS, Nextdoor has been able to deliver fast website performance for members, launch 50,000 servers in four years, and roll back new code releases in less than a minute.

By adopting AWS for its Super Mario Run environment, Nintendo was able to release the game worldwide in only two months versus four to five months with the setup of an on-premises infrastructure, while also supporting an expected 150 million downloads for iOS and Android. Nintendo Co., Ltd. started working with DeNA Co., Ltd. in March 2016, which led to its mobile app releases. The company aims to attract new customers and grow its business through mobile games, which are now popular worldwide, and the resulting synergies with game consoles. With Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon S3, the companies provide an easy and relaxed game environment for customers worldwide. Amazon CloudWatch and IAM also support the seamless collaboration between the two companies.  

Nisa Retail is a member-owned, supply-chain service for independent food retailers based in the UK. Wanting to provide members with a mobile app, Nisa worked with APN partner, Intechnica, to develop the app on the AWS Cloud, reducing time to market by nearly 4 months and connecting the app to mission-critical systems without disruption.

Nordstrom, a Seattle-based fashion retailer, strives to provide excellent customer service to its shoppers. The company is using AWS to run its websites, mobile application, security management tools, ecommerce platform, and internal development tools. Using AWS and leveraging services such as AWS Lambda, the company also built a new recommendations engine that processes requests in seconds instead of minutes, and has experienced two order of magnitude of cost savings.

NQ Mobile is a leading global provider of mobile Internet services focusing on security, privacy, and productivity. The company uses AWS to accelerate its international expansion, saving 20% on infrastructure costs and improving time to market from 15 days to 45 minutes.

NTT DOCOMO, a leading mobile phone operator in Japan, experienced large traffic spikes in its mobile network service. Working with AWS Support, Enterprise-level, the mobile operator used the AWS Cloud to create a fast and agile development process and build a scalable voice recognition architecture able to serve over 60 million customers.

NuBank, a Brazilian financial services startup, offers its customers a no-fee, low-interest credit card service. The company is using AWS to host its mobile application and credit card processing platform. By using AWS, NuBank reduced its time to market and is now able to launch customer-facing features with ease.

Adopting AWS enabled international online dating site Oasis.com to streamline the management of 57 million images, reduce backup costs by half and create a scalable and reliable real-time chat service.

Financial software-as-a-service provider Ohpen created a platform that banks can use to administer retail mutual funds and savings accounts for their customers. The company’s founders chose to deploy their banking-products platform using the AWS cloud. With AWS, Ohpen can rapidly deliver new features and estimates it can help its institutional customers cut their costs by up to 80 percent.

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.

Onoko develops social and mobile applications for the Facebook and iPhone platforms. The company's apps, which primarily focus on relational gaming, support approximately 15 million global users. Onoko chose to build its infrastructureon AWS to avoid other hosters' steep operating costs and limited flexibility. Today Onoko relies on Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.

Open Universities Australia (OUA) provides distance education and online courses to students in Australia and other countries. OUA’s collocated data center could not deliver the scalability to support planned growth and diversification with the required cost efficiencies, so the business moved its websites and business applications into AWS. This has enabled OUA to reduce the time required to deliver changes to production from three months to less than two hours, cut costs by up to AU$1 million (US$726,850) over two years, and improve the performance of websites by up to 20 percent.

OpenClassrooms is a French digital-learning platform offering more than 1,000 courses on new technologies and digital transformation to nearly 2.5 million people each month. With strong growth and a strong need for agility, OpenClassrooms has chosen AWS, which provides it with a flexible platform to easily test new features and deploy them to production up to 20 times per day.

Orion Health is one of the leading global providers of health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions. The company engaged APN consulting partner Logicworks to help build Cal INDEX, a California statewide HIPAA-compliant HIE using AWS. By using AWS, Orion Health can scale its platform to handle millions of patient records.

Outsmart 2005, a New Zealand entertainment and online media company, turned to AWS to run its SmallWorlds game environment. As a result, performance improved by 20% and Outsmart grew the number of active players it could support from 400,000 to 1,000,000.

OutSystems is a diversified software company that provides a platform that lets its customers build, integrate, deploy, and manage applications. The company uses AWS to for its development and testing operations, for analytics, and to host environments used by customers for their own software development efforts. Using AWS, OutSystems was able to double the cloud-based segment of its business in six months while serving customers in 25 countries.

The Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) is a US organization dedicated to helping US citizens overseas vote. When the OVF decided to expand its services to voters living in the US, the company launched the US Vote Foundation, which offers services including voter registration and absentee ballot requests. OVF turned to AWS to improve performance, handle a 20% increase in peak user demand, and reduce costs.

Hotel review site Oyster.com was already using AWS to store more than one million photos when the company decided to use AWS to upgrade its in-house image processing system. This move helped the company save nearly $20,000 in capital and operating expenses while reducing its image processing workload by 95%.

Pacific Life Insurance provides financial services and products to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. The company turned to AWS for its hybrid IT strategy, using the AWS cloud in combination with data centers in California and Nebraska to run actuarial workloads used to set insurance pricing and create new product offerings. Using AWS, Pacific Life can quickly scale its compute capacity with less cost and IT overhead compared to adding new hardware to its own data centers.

Papaya Mobile is a social network and gaming platform that found a reliable and affordable computing solution with AWS. By using Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3, Papaya Mobile can provide users with instant, affordable, and secure social networking.

PayGate is one of the leading payment processing companies in southern Africa, and a pioneer in online payment services in the region. PayGate used Amazon Web Services to set up a secure payment processing gateway based within the European Union for one of its longstanding customers. In doing so, it saved around one million South African Rand (US$75,000) and gained a flexible platform to conduct proofs of concept for future cloud projects.

PaymentSpring provides payment services for organizations such as nonprofits and small ecommerce companies. The startup had several platform requirements for its solution, including high availability and scalability, cost effectiveness, and features that would support compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. PaymentSpring turned to AWS, launching a service that quickly scaled to millions of dollars while offering its customers the reliability and security expected of a payment system.

PBS, a private, non-profit corporation, provides content through television, the Web and mobile applications. PBS Interactive, the department responsible for PBS’ Internet and mobile presence, improved its video streaming performance by migrating to AWS to utilize the content delivery service Amazon CloudFront and increase its existing usage of Amazon S3.

London-based Peak has developed a brain-training app that’s used by millions of people each month. The startup runs its data warehouse and analytics workloads on AWS. Using AWS, Peak has the scalability to double service capacity in seconds, as well as the agility to innovate and deliver new services to customers.

Based in Turkey, gaming company Peak Games has 30 million monthly active players across Turkey, Middle East, and North Africa. By using AWS, the company has lowered provisioning time from 4-6 hours to 10 minutes, and reduced operational costs.

In 2010, the deal-a-day website Peixe Urbano launched on Amazon EC2. With its AWS infrastructure, the start-up was able to begin operations free of upfront investment costs while still positioning itself within a highly-scalable environment capable of supporting rapid growth. That planning paid off, as Peixe Urbano is now Brazil's largest collective discount website.

Penn State’s Biological Engineering Department wanted to make its research results widely available to scientists. Penn State uses AWS to host and distribute its research design methods, optimization algorithms, and results with 6,000 scientists all over the world. By using AWS, Penn State has allowed researchers to design more than 50,000 synthetic DNA sequences.

Philips is a Dutch diversified technology company with sales and services available in more than 100 countries. The company’s U.S. healthcare division used Attunity CloudBeam, available on the AWS Marketplace, to upload 37 million records from an on-premises database to the AWS Cloud in just 90 minutes. By hosting its data on AWS, Philips can optimize any size data set within two hours, allowing its consultants and analysts to provide solutions quickly to its customers.

PinoyTravel is an aggregated online travel booking company for long distance bus trips and passenger ferries in the Philippines. To speed up service for its growing customer base, PinoyTravel moved its ticketing service, website, and mobile application to AWS. As a result, the company can now scale to support more than 65,000 page views per month on its website and more than 12,500 new users per month on its platform.

Pitney Bowes connects companies with their customers through a wide range of engagement, intelligence, and mailing platforms. Pitney Bowes uses AWS to develop new applications from the ground up. With the addition of AWS Enterprise Support, the company has gained confidence in building new solutions on AWS to solve its customers’ business problems.

Pixels is a digital-advertising services company that delivers targeted ads to consumers on the web and mobile. The firm runs its ad server and analytics platforms in the AWS cloud. This has enabled Pixels to cut its time to market, excluding hardware procurement, from three months to one month.

PIXNET Digital Media Corporation is a Taiwan-based company that provides a social network website, online photo gallery, and blogging service for China. PIXNET uses Amazon S3 for basic backups and log files and Amazon EC2 to process images using facial recognition software. By using AWS, PIXNET can bring its services to market quickly and more cost-effectively.

PlaceIQ, a location-based intelligence company in New York City, provides location intelligence for mobile advertising. The company uses Amazon ElastiCache and AWS to improve its web service response time by 83%.

PocketMath offers a mobile, self-serve platform that processes orders for mobile advertising. The company uses AWS to run 30 billion auctions per day. Auction order processing is time sensitive, and the use of Amazon Kinesis and Elastic Load Balancing enables the Singapore-based company to meet its critical 60 millisecond processing time to bid on the relevant ad spots. Pocketmath uses AWS to fulfill its business requirements including global coverage, scale and elasticity.

Startup polljoy aims to improve ratings for mobile applications in app marketplaces. The firm is running its web services, software development kit, and databases in AWS. This has enabled polljoy to achieve 99.999 percent infrastructure availability while supporting more than 1,000 user requests per second during peak periods.

Pond is an online platform designed to increase communication and collaboration between teachers and students within New Zealand’s education industry. The company built the Pond platform using AWS including its website, content management, user database, and data warehousing solutions. Since launch, the company has grown its platform to support more than half a million students and achieved near 100 percent uptime.

When the founders of Poshmark decided to launch a social shopping app, they wanted to bring the app to market quickly and have it scale for large, real-time events. The company took advantage of AWS services, libraries and developer resources to develop and bring the app to market in 8 months. On AWS, Poshmark can scale to support thousands of requests per second during peak periods without the hassle of managing on-premises resources.

More than three million patients in India use Practo.com to find and book appointments with 8,000 doctors. When the company was having problems with scalability and outages in its collocated data center, it migrated all of its operations to AWS, including compute, storage, database, networking, and mobile app services. Since then, Practo’s traffic has risen by 60x without requiring changes to the code base.

Precision Exams delivers online academic testing, with a focus on grades 9-12 across the United States. The Software-as-a-Service provider needed to scale to meet the demands of running up to 50,000 tests simultaneously and providing instant results with data coming from all 50 states. By moving to Amazon DynamoDB from a custom MySQL database, Precision Exams can dramatically scale its database to meet customer needs and is saving up to 30 percent on database operations.

Present Group helps companies commission and complete electrical projects. The business runs a range of critical applications in AWS, including an Epicor Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and a Microsoft SharePoint collaboration system. Using AWS has enabled Present Group to reduce operational expenditure by 30 percent initially followed by a further 34 percent, scale to support the rapid onboarding of employees, and improve ERP system performance, all within 12 months.

Pristine helps medical professionals deliver quality, cost effective, and accessible care through its product, EyeSight, for Google Glass. The company is all in on the AWS Cloud and leverages tools like Docker to achieve continuous deployment with near-zero downtime. By using AWS and Docker, Pristine can build HIPAA-compliant enterprise-grade products with great efficiency.

PSR provides technology solutions and consulting services to natural gas and electric utilities. Since migrating to the AWS cloud, PSR has streamlined the massive calculations of its scientific models and optimized computing efficiency through use of Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instances.

Each day, nine million users consume news from Punjab Kesari, one of India’s largest news publishers. Since it migrated its infrastructure, website, and video on demand (VOD) service from a traditional infrastructure to AWS, Punjab Kesari can now deliver more than 150 million page views and over one billion ad impressions per month, while being able to scale from 500 to 20,000 real-time users in a matter of seconds. The company uses AWS to run all of its web and mobile properties, including web and database servers, CMS, analytics, push notifications, and content delivery.

Each day, nine million users consume news from Punjab Kesari, one of India’s largest news publishers. Since it migrated its infrastructure, website, and video on demand (VOD) service from a traditional infrastructure to AWS, Punjab Kesari can now deliver more than 150 million page views and over one billion ad impressions per month, while being able to scale from 500 to 20,000 real-time users in a matter of seconds. The company uses AWS to run all of its web and mobile properties, including web and database servers, CMS, analytics, push notifications, and content delivery.

Qantas wanted to create an in-flight application to make passenger information available to cabin crew. By deploying the application on the AWS Cloud, Qantas can quickly and inexpensively provide cabin crew insights into customer needs and wants.

Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd is a leading provider of security products in China serving the mobile and Internet space. To help expand its business overseas, Qihoo 360 moved to the AWS Cloud due to its low-cost, elastic, and scalable infrastructure services. AWS helps Qihoo 360 reduce its application deployment time from several months using a traditional hosting model to just a few days with the AWS cloud.

Qlik is a worldwide leader in visual analytics and business intelligence, with a mission to help customers see the whole story that lives within their data. The company wanted to develop a SaaS-based delivery model on AWS for its Qlik Sense product, and worked with Slalom Consulting on the architecture and implementation. Using AWS and working with Slalom, Qlik was able to release a beta product to the public in 18 weeks, meeting an aggressive company goal.

QNAP Systems, Inc. provides powerful and reliable network-attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions worldwide. The company’s analytics platform, running on AWS, helps QNAP improve its products and customer service by extracting insights from customer data and event logs. By using AWS, the company has reduced the time it takes to run complex queries and generate reports from days to minutes.

Rail Settlement Plan (RSP), a division of ATOC, provides shared IT services to a network of 19 franchised passenger rail operators in the UK. Working with APN partner KCOM, RSP migrated to AWS and reduced operating costs by 75%.

Ramco Systems provides cloud-based enterprise solutions to more than 150,000 users in over 35 countries. By leveraging AWS, Ramco can improve server-provisioning time for customers by more than 80%, while reducing both its capital and operating expenditures by more than 40% compared to its on-premise data center.

Rangespan provides retailers with supplier management and market data, enabling retailers to select new products analytically and launch them easily. The company needed a way to expand its business and cost-effectively serve its customers during peak order periods. Rangespan uses AWS to run its website, provide data analysis to retailers, and build, validate, and store its 2 TB product catalog.

Razer creates and manages gaming peripherals, systems, and software businesses. The company is running its mobile applications, analytics software, and websites on AWS. Using AWS has enabled Razer to reduce the time to procure new server capacity from one month to one day, achieve 99.999 percent availability, and support growth from 6 million gamers at the start of 2014 to 15 million gamers in 2015.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading lets Razorfish focus on application development without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management, or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.

REA Group, based in Melbourne, Australia, operates real estate advertising websites globally, and was struggling with long development cycles. Migrating to AWS allowed REA Group to adopt agile development methods and reduce development cycles from weeks and months down to days.

Business intelligence firm Realeyes delivers emotion analytics to customers through its innovative video-analysis platform. Realeyes runs its video storage, processing, and analytics platform on AWS. Using AWS, the startup has reduced the development time for its data collection service from months to weeks, and now has the technology it needs to run its global operations securely.

Red 5 Studios produces Firefall, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) team-based action shooter role-playing game. The company uses AWS on all its production servers to provide seamless gameplay and reduce development and hardware costs.

Red Lion Hotels Corporation is about to launch a set of web and mobile platforms that will provide hyper-localized research and booking experiences for travelers. AWS Solutions Provider 2nd Watch is helping Red Lion migrate from a co-location facility in order to develop the new platforms on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, and Amazon CloudFront.

RedBubble is an online community, marketplace, and print-on-demand service for creative individuals around the world. RedBubble combines Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS to operate its own image storage and processing application, Imagehaus.

redBus, an Indian company providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) application for bus operators in addition to selling bus tickets on its own and third-party websites, migrated its operations completely to AWS. The company uses Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS and Amazon CloudWatch.

By using AWS, By using AWS, Redfin can innovate quickly and cost effectively with a small IT staff while managing billions of property records. Redfin is a full-service residential real estate company that operates in 37 states and Washington, D.C. The company runs its entire business analytics operation on AWS, using a range of services, including Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon EC2.

Redlily is an online retailer offering a variety of products, including designer apparel, stationery, shoes, baby accessories, toys, and games in India. The company migrated its Microsoft NAV enterprise resource planning system to AWS. After doing so, Redlily reduced its IT capital and operational expenses by 70 percent and increased its ERP website uptime from 80 to 99 percent over a three-year period.

RedMart is a Singapore-based online supermarket that operates its own fulfillment center and delivery vans. RedMart moved its website platform and fulfillment center software to AWS from a physical infrastructure that was inadequate for supporting the company’s growth. Using AWS, RedMart can now support 12 percent month over month growth in traffic, and its website runs five times faster but costs 60 percent less to support.

Remind is a web and mobile application that enables U.S. school teachers to send text messages to students and stay in touch with parents. Remind built its platform as a service on the Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) and runs its entire messaging application infrastructure on AWS. Using Amazon ECS has significantly improved application performance and freed Remind’s engineers to focus on developing and deploying applications.

Ricoh Company, Ltd., switched from a global information sharing system that used Microsoft SharePoint to AWS in order to cut cost. The company adopted AWS because of its reliability and proven track record at eneterprise-level corporations. AWS offers a dramatic reduction in cost and shortens the amount of time it takes for introduction.

Robinhood’s lean staff, including just two DevOps people, used AWS to create a massively scalable securities trading app with strong built-in security and compliance features that supported hundreds of thousands of users at launch. Robinhood is a startup offering no-fee securities trading. The company uses AWS to operate its online business, deliver and update its mobile trading app, securely store customer information and trading data, and perform business analytics.

Finland-based Rovio Entertainment is the entertainment media company behind such games as Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, and The Croods. By using AWS, Rovio now has an infrastructure that is elastic enough to scale for dramatic peaks in usage.

Rovio Entertainment is a Finland-based entertainment media company and creator of the Angry Birds brand. Its gaming platform, which supports all of the firm’s games, runs on AWS. Using AWS, Rovio delivers a consistent, always-on service for its millions of users around the world, and is able to scale on demand for major events, including the release of its new game, Angry Birds 2.

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is one of the busiest opera houses in the world, home to London’s Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. ROH faced IT infrastructure challenges by not being able to scale to meet the demand of customers wishing to purchase content and tickets online. Using AWS, The Royal Opera House is able to scale to meet demand for ticket purchasing peaks, improve customer experience and reduce wait times from four hours to a few minutes.

RoZetta Technology provides big data storage, management, analytics consultancy, and solutions to the financial services sector. The business runs a range of customer applications in AWS, including a tool that extracts data from company announcements for use in a customer information platform, and a data portal providing access to financial data for academic research. Using AWS has enabled RoZetta Technology to deploy and automate a project in the cloud of 40 servers costing AU$100,000 in weeks, while a less complex project in a physical data center of 16 servers cost AU$800,000 and took months to complete.

Start-up financial services company rplan provides its customers with tools to help achieve financial goals. Building its infrastructure based on AWS has enabled rplan to contain costs, maintain a high level of performance, and support a growing user base.

The S&P Capital IQ platform combines deep global company information and market research with powerful tools for fundamental analysis, idea generation, and workflow management. It provides easy access to both real-time and historical information on companies, markets, transactions, and people worldwide. The S&P data science team saves time and money by using the AWS Cloud to build intelligent analytics for the platform, taking advantage of AWS, including Amazon EMR and Amazon S3.

The Professional Services team at Sage Software in Germany often spent hours configuring local virtual machines before meeting with customers. Sage Software used AWS to develop a cloud infrastructure that saves the team an estimated 500 hours per year of server configuration time, resulting in faster access to their training and consulting systems.

Samsung Electronic Printing is a division of the Seoul-based conglomerate. The division deployed a new mobile app store, called the Samsung Printing Apps Center, on AWS instead of using a traditional IT environment. By using AWS, the division was able to deploy its Printing Apps Center on time and has the scalability to handle spikes in download traffic.

Sanoma Games designs casual online gaming and fantasy sports leagues as part of the Sanoma diversified media group. The business unit recently closed its local datacenter in order to build a scalable, service-based architecture that can facilitate expansion into additional markets and gaming categories. Cloud management specialist Nordcloud was appointed to create and manage the new environment, which now includes Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon CloudWatch.

SAP is a leading provider of enterprise software, handling 60% of the world’s GDP. Amazon Web Services customers can deploy the full range of SAP software in the AWS Cloud to solve business problems without worrying about infrastructure.

Scholastic cut 40 percent off its IT costs and can deliver new services in minutes instead of weeks using AWS. The New York–based company is the world’s largest publisher of children’s books. It turned to AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR for greater agility and cost reductions in running its web hosting and e-commerce operations.

Scopely, based in Los Angeles, California, powers mobile, social gaming applications with sophisticated background analytics. To meet its performance objectives, the company turned to AWS and created architecture able to scale reliably from zero to millions of concurrent users.

Media companies worldwide use ScribbleLive’s engagement platform and application to deliver news and events in real time. By running on AWS, ScribbleLive can scale to support a thousandfold increase in traffic for breaking news while reducing operating costs by 35%.

Scribd is one of the largest social publishing and reading sites on the Internet, with over 90 million monthly readers. Faced with a document conversion project involving millions of files, Scribd designed a large batch job running Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, allowing Scribd to save 63% over its expected costs for a job of this size.

Seaco Global Ltd. is the world’s largest sea container leasing company, with more than $6 billion in assets. The company moved its daily business management software—including SAP Business Suite and SAP Solution Manager—from traditional data centers in the UK to AWS. As a result, the company cut its IT hosting and maintenance costs by 50 percent, dramatically improved performance of its SAP applications, and reduced the time it takes to complete its monthly billing process by 75 percent.

SEAOIL Philippines, Inc. moved its Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise resource planning system into AWS, which enabled it to reduce its infrastructure costs by 20 percent, deliver new environments six times faster than in an on-premises environment, and achieve availability levels well above 99.5 percent. Founded in 1998, SEAOIL Philippines is the Philippines’ leading independent fuel company. The company’s AWS architecture includes Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EBS for persistent storage inside an Amazon VPC.

SEAT Pagine Gialle, the Italian Yellow Pages company, helps its customers achieve visibility through print, voice, and web. The company uses AWS to host its customers’ websites, to build and deploy web applications, and to conduct business intelligence and data mining activities. By using AWS, SEAT PG can scale to handle its customers’ needs and has cut deployment time for new applications from three to four weeks to just a few days.

Securitas Direct, operating under the brand name Verisure, provides security products and services to more than one million residential and business customers in seven countries. The company uses AWS to deploy its security-based applications globally and to store large volumes of security videos. By using AWS, Securitas Direct can deliver new service applications within hours instead of the six weeks it took in the past, and has avoided the capital expenditures normally associated with traditional IT infrastructures.

Segment provides a service that acts as a single hub for businesses to collect customer data that can be accessed with the SQL query language or used for analytics and marketing automation. Segment uses Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) for scheduling Docker containers across Availability Zones. By using AWS, Segment automated and streamlined container orchestration and management, allowing its developers to focus on their work without worrying about downtimes and application availability.

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Center at Seton Hall University uses AWS to facilitate video streaming of events and quickly spin up pilot projects for teachers and researchers alike. Using AWS saves TLT $30,000 per year on staff and infrastructure costs.

During the 2012 Super Bowl, the Shazam App ran on Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, and Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large Instances with Elastic Load Balancing. This infrastructure helped to support the processing of millions of transactions during this high-traffic event.

Shine Technologies in Melbourne, Australia, searched for a cloud environment capable of supporting its Oracle-based billing applications. Shine took advantage of Amazon RDS for Oracle Database and Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS to move its 10-year-old database to AWS and reduce processing time for certain primary processes from 96 to 24 hours.

When UK retailer Shop Direct needed to increase its website availability, the company moved its e-commerce platform to AWS. As a result, Shop Direct was able to handle record Black Friday orders of nearly 10,000 orders/hour.

Shutl, a United Kingdom start-up, helps retailers offer deliveries in ninety minutes or within a specified one hour timeframe. The Shutl web service API is built on an AWS infrastructure that includes Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS and Amazon Elastic IP. Shutl chose AWS as its cloud services provider based on cost-effectiveness and flexibility, as well as the strong reputation and ability of AWS to meet European Union privacy regulations.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics’ mission is to deliver better patient care at a lower cost. With AWS, Siemens has built an analytics platform to help caretakers personalize patient treatment plans through companion diagnostics testing. AWS provides Siemens with tools like AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to become more agile and achieve their mission.

German game developer Silver Style Studios uses AWS to help provide worldwide availability and 99% uptime to users of its multiplayer online game, The Dark Eye—Herokon Online. Silver Style designed the game to run on the AWS Cloud, eliminating new hardware expenses and lowering operational costs.

Simple is an online bank that offers its customers tools to better understand and manage their finances. The bank built its online banking platform on AWS while meeting payment card industry (PCI) data security standard (DSS) compliance. Using AWS, Simple can automate processes that once took months to complete and focus on its customer service rather than managing IT infrastructure.

SimpleReach, based in New York, measures content traction for enterprise customers like Forbes, Fox News, and TIME Magazine. Using AWS enables SimpleReach to handle massive spikes in traffic seamlessly and cost-effectively, even when the company is processing 1.5B events a day.

Singapore Post started as the traditional mail carrier for Singapore and diversified to become a large e-commerce solutions provider through its SP eCommerce division. The company turned to AWS to build its e-commerce platform and website to support its customers operating in Asia. Using AWS, it has grown quickly to support more than 1,000 consumer brands and can effectively manage fluctuating demands during major retail seasons.

SK Planet provides e-commerce, messaging, and location-based services to consumers. By using AWS, the company was able to expand globally with new data center operations that take just one or two days to establish—compared to as much as three months in the past—and has reduced related costs by up to 50 percent.

When Slalom Consulting decided to upgrade to SharePoint 2013, the company needed a cloud provider who could support multiple, persistent site-to-site connections. By using AWS, Slalom was able to upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and enable connections to its existing cloud and on-premises data centers. Running on the AWS Cloud helps Slalom take advantage of new and improved SharePoint services while saving an average of 14% compared to its previous cloud provider.

Sling Media provides video place-shifting products and services for consumers and TV service providers. Sling uses AWS to allow customers to seamlessly access video from their televisions on a variety of mobile devices, including PC/Mac, tablets and smartphones, no matter how many users are hitting the site. The company uses AWS to support large analytics volumes and data visualization and reporting.

SM Entertainment operates a wide range of entertainment properties in South Korea, including a record label, a talent agency, a film production company, and an event management company. The company uses AWS to deliver its websites and mobile applications and to run its internal ERP and Groupware systems. By using AWS, the company was able to scale to support more than 3 million new users in three weeks and protects internal data using AWS security features.

SmartNews saves time and effort by using AWS CodeDeploy when deploying services to multiple environments, allowing its developers to focus their time on the core product. SmartNews is a news discovery app that delivers the very best stories of the web—from breaking and local news to hidden gems. SmartNews automates software deployment for its microservices using AWS CodeDeploy.

To accommodate its growing business, Smartsheet, a web-based solution for managing tasks, projects and processes,  uses Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront for document storage and delivery, and Amazon Mechanical Turk to gain access to an on-demand workforce.

Smatis, a large French insurance provider (called a “mutuelle”), has strict requirements around protection of sensitive customer data, and must comply with certain European standards, such as Solvency II. After conducting intensive testing, Smatis decided to move production workloads into AWS in order to reduce costs and improve IT efficiency. Smatis is able to store critical customer data securely, without compromising on agility and flexibility.

SmugMug is a photo sharing website that enables its customers to store, share, and sell photos online. By using Amazon CloudSearch, a service that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale custom search solutions, SmugMug saves more than $300,000 in operations per year and enables its engineers to focus on building a great user experience for its millions of customers.

SmugMug, a premium online photo and video sharing service, migrated to the cloud starting with Amazon S3 for storage and now runs almost 100% on AWS. By running on the AWS Cloud, SmugMug can deliver a better performing service to its millions of customers.

By using AWS, Sokrati reduced the data in its database from 20 terabytes to 2 terabytes and cut its infrastructure costs by 35 percent. Sokrati is one of India’s leading advertising technology and analytics companies, driving more than 12 million visits a month to advertisers by managing over 100 million active ad entities in real time. The company uses AWS to analyze and store terabytes of data for its marketing platform.

Solinor is a Finland-based software company that provides customized payment solutions that require Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification. Its Payment Highway software as a service, which enables its customers to accept card payments online, runs on Amazon Web Services. Solinor got its solution to market 90 percent faster with AWS than it could have on a physical infrastructure and, crucially, it was able to achieve security compliance with ease.

Sonico.com, a social networking site with more than 48 million registered users, moved its more than 1 billion images to Amazon S3 and performs all of its image upload, processing, and storage using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The company also leverages Amazon SQS and MySQL instances running on Amazon EC2.

SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can upload and share sounds. Needing a solution that would scale without increasing operational complexity, SoundCloud turned to AWS. The company uses AWS to store and process the 2.5 PB of data its users upload, driving business insights and enabling swift, reliable service to customers.

Speed 3D is an innovative startup whose flagship mobile application, Insta3D, allows customers to turn portrait photos into detailed 3D avatars with customizable clothing and accessories. By moving to AWS, Speed 3D has halved its image-processing time while gaining the scalability required to engage with more than 1 million mobile users.

SportPursuit.com, based in the U.K., offers flash sales on sporting goods to more than 1 million members in 40 countries. With huge spikes in site visitors during concentrated parts of the day, SportPursuit needs a website that enables swift, highly available service to its customers. By using AWS, the company can spin up instances in minutes rather than days, providing fast service to its customers.

Spuul provides a video streaming service so viewers can watch Indian movies and television series on the web or mobile devices. The company uses AWS to stream high-resolution video to users worldwide without purchasing expensive servers or storage systems as its content library grows. Running on AWS allows Spuul to prepare reports in seconds and make business decisions based on real-time data.

St Luke’s Anglican School was beset with regular power outages, limited bandwidth and natural disasters that affected its website and school administration system. The school needed a solution to improve both latency and availability. By moving to AWS, St Luke’s has achieved near 100% availability and reduced website latency from 160 milliseconds to 20 milliseconds.

Boston-based Stackdriver provides a monitoring service for AWS-powered applications. They use cross-account access from AWS Identity and Access Management to monitor 250,000 resources across more than 400 customer accounts without using any long-term credentials.

Stanford University’s Archaeology Center is an interdisciplinary research center from where students and faculty conduct archaeology and heritage research on a global scale. The Çatalhöyük lab at the Archaeology Center uses Amazon EC2 to run ArcGIS Server data for spatial analysis of information collected at a Neolithic archaeological site in south-central Turkey. By using AWS, researchers have faster access to information, data version conflicts are minimized, and at least 20 hours per week of staff time that used to be spent on manually updating information has been redirected to more significant projects.

Using AWS, Novi Digital drastically reduced both cost and time to market for its over-the-top (OTT) content platform, hotstar.com. Novi Digital is one of India’s largest media companies, providing streaming video for more than 40 channels in seven languages to more than 720 million users. The company uses AWS to provide cost-effective scalability and reliability for its OTT platform.

The State of Arizona is located in the Southwestern United States and is populated by over 6 million residents. The State has begun migrating parts of its IT infrastructure to AWS starting with its DNS solution due to aging infrastructure. As a result, the State of Arizona saves over 75% in annual operating costs for its DNS solution when compared to its previous on-premises solution.

Since 2011, Stripe has delivered its PCI-compliant payment platform entirely on AWS, relying on the security best practices as well as easy auditability of the AWS platform. Stripe wants to make it easier than ever for developers to process payments on their web and mobile applications. Using AWS provides Stripe with access to a world-class infrastructure that helps it scale seamlessly and increase developer productivity.

Suncorp Group, a leading Australian financial services organization, wanted to dream big and innovate without restriction to revitalize its complex and expensive IT environment. After a successful migration of mission-critical applications to AWS, the company plans to migrate 2,000 applications to the cloud.

Suunto is a Finland-based company that designs and manufactures precision instruments for sports enthusiasts. The company stepped into new era when they launched Movescount.com, a sports and fitness website that uses Amazon S3 to store fitness information.

Switzerland’s national mapping agency, swisstopo, manages geographic information systems (GIS) projects for Swiss Federal offices and other customers. Moving from an on-premise infrastructure to AWS enabled swisstopo to support up to 50,000 unique visitors per day, which equates to approximately 20 TB of data transferred per month and 1,300 map tiles delivered per second.

Syntel provides technology and business solutions to a global audience. The company, needing to reduce provisioning time for hardware and increase scalability, moved its dev/test environment to AWS. Now Syntel has reduced its TCO, operating, and capital costs, and can bring services to market more quickly.

Tadaa—a product of menschmaschine Publishing—is an iPhone camera app featuring high-definition photo effects and editing tools. The app's developers deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple regions to support 500,000 new users in less than one week.

Tadiran Telecom is an Israeli enterprise communications solution provider that builds telephony systems with unified communications, large contact centers, as well as control room and mobile applications. The company is using AWS to test software, implement an efficient disaster recovery process, and run a product demo system used by both regional managers and partners. By running on AWS, Tadiran has reduced its time to market and provided the company the ability to offer cloud-based contact centers and systems to its end customers – a capability that its competitors are not yet able to offer.

The Tapingo app lets people to order from restaurants on the go, while enabling robust inventory and line management for restaurants. The company migrated its architecture to AWS to reduce latency and improve efficiency. Due to the scalability and low cost of AWS, Tapingo has expanded internationally and increased its user base by 5x.

TATA Motors is one of the largest automotive companies in India. The company uses AWS to expand its data center capacity resulting in greater flexibility and faster innovation. By using AWS, the company has reduced its time required to provision IT infrastructure to support new initiatives from one to three months to approximately one week.

TCL Communication wanted to introduce a new firmware update service, FOTA, to allow mobile phone users in more than 100 countries to upgrade their phones using the Internet. By using AWS, the China-based company is able to deliver FOTA to customers at near 100 percent availability, and at 10 times less the cost of a traditional data center.

TellApart provides marketing tools that help online retailers identify their best customers and prospects and send individualized marketing messages to those customers. The company's world-class engineering team has built a real-time ad bidding engine that leverages a suite of AWS products.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust works to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity throughout the world. The organization is running its core website, crop database, online reporting tool, and document management system on AWS. By using AWS, the Crop Trust has consolidated its disparate websites, scaled its main site to keep pace with traffic demands, boosted performance to provide web content faster to global customers, and can now provision new IT resources in minutes.

The GPT Group is one of Australia’s largest diversified listed property groups, with $15.2 billion worth of assets under management. To position itself for future growth, the company tasked the IT department to reduce expenses by 20%. The company leveraged the scalability and reliability of AWS to migrate most of its data center to the cloud. As a results, GPT gained the ability to scale its infrastructure in hours to support business demands while reducing operating expenses by 25%.

The League of Women Voters (LWV), a US-based nonpartisan political organization that provides voter education and advocacy, needed a hosting solution for its website that could scale up to meet heavy demand during federal elections. LWV uses AWS to provide continual availability, scaling from 3 server instances to 60 on Election Day.

Virginia-based financial services firm The Motley Fool provides financial advice to individual investors. When the company migrated its Australia website to AWS, page load times improved, resulting in a better customer experience.

US-based Schumacher Group provides emergency medical physicians to more than 200 hospitals. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its business intelligence (BI) environment helps Schumacher ensure that patient data is fully encrypted with the appropriate levels of control and access granted.

The Seattle Times is the largest daily newspaper in Washington State, with a website that gets 32 million page views each month. The company moved its newspaper website to AWS to improve its auto-scaling capabilities and the ability to quickly troubleshoot problems. By migrating to AWS, The Seattle Times now has the ability to scale up and down to meet spikes in readership and can rapidly deliver breaking news stories to its readers.

The Weather Company provides some of the world's most accurate weather forecasts to hundreds of millions of users. Using AWS, the company redesigned its weather data platform and forecasting systems. As a result, the platform can now deliver 15 billions forecasts per day for nearly 3 billion locations around the globe.

THRON helps its customers get more out of content through distribution, workflow management, and big data analysis for business insights. The Italian company offers a platform to simplify digital content management and distribution and create actionable recommendations to increase business insights. THRON has been able to cut its development and release cycle time in half by using AWS. It uses a range of AWS services, including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR to power its intelligence and analysis reporting.

TicketLeap, an online ticketing platform used by thousands of event organizers across the US and Canada, runs entirely on AWS. TicketLeap uses Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and cloud monitoring services as the foundation for its platform.

Ticketmaster, North America’s top online venue for ticket sales and distribution, uses AWS pay-as-you-go pricing to reduce fixed costs by more than 80% annually.

Tictail is a Swedish startup offering a platform that makes it simple for anyone to set up and expand an online store. Tictail runs its entire infrastructure, including its e-commerce platform, on Amazon Web Services. Using AWS, it has scaled to support 100,000 stores with more than two million products and can roll out up to 25 features a day.

Worldwide conglomerate TIENS Group uses AWS to run a fast and reliable business network that connects its offices in more than 110 countries. By using AWS, the company has reduced IT operating costs by 50%.

Tigerspike offers website hosting and management services, UI and UX design, licensing and support services, and product development for personal media devices. The company migrated its websites, mobile applications, customer database and content delivery solution to AWS after closing its co-location facility located in Sydney, Australia. By moving to AWS, the company has reduced its operating expenses by 75 percent and achieved 99.95 percent uptime.

Time Inc. is one of the world’s most influential media companies with a portfolio of 90 iconic brands—including People, In Style, and Time—that reach more than 120 million consumers monthly. The company uses AWS Enterprise Support to assist with planning and executing the migration of existing and new applications to AWS. For example, Time leveraged AWS Support to help plan and execute the migration of its advertising system to Amazon Redshift, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in the cost of the application.

Time Inc. is a major global publisher with over 80 brands that generate more than 120 million unique impressions through printed material and reaching another 120 million unique visitors through its digital properties every month. The company is going all in and migrating five of its global datacenters to the AWS Cloud leveraging the help of APN partners Acquia, AlertLogic and Cloudreach. By using AWS, Time Inc. saves more than 75% on hosting costs for its UK brand websites.

Founded in 2013, tixCraft provides ticketing services for concerts and other events in Taiwan. The company has migrated its databases, websites, e-commerce, and associated systems for analysis and reporting to AWS. This has enabled tixCraft to scale its IT resources more than 130-fold in 30 minutes, support more than 2,500 orders per second, and achieve 99.999 percent availability.

Topsy delivers real-time insight from social media conversations. The company uses AWS for cost-effective analysis and storage of 125 TB of data from online sources like Twitter, Google Plus, and LiveJournal, eliminating the need to invest in an on-premises infrastructure and saving the company $1 M.

The Toronto Star is Canada’s largest online news site. By using AWS OpsWorks, an application management service that makes it easy to deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes, the Star reduced deployment time for its content management application from 3 hours to 20 minutes, saving costs and boosting productivity.

Totaljobs Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing online job board providers in the United Kingdom. Totaljobs Group estimates that its recent move to AWS will reduce hosting costs by $500,000 per year.

Tradeworx, a financial technology company based in New Jersey, needed to help the SEC police market events such as the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash. By using AWS, Tradeworx was able to design an analytics platform that allows the SEC to reconstruct years of market data and analyze more than 3 billion data points in 2.8 seconds.

Travelbird is a growing company offering travelers inspiring, simple, and great-value deals on their vacations. The firm runs all its internal and web-facing infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, and has recently added a range of services for business intelligence. With BI tools running on its AWS infrastructure, Travelbird has the insight it needs to drive its business through better decision-making and has reduced manager workloads by 25-30 percent.

Travelstart is one of Africa’s most successful travel booking websites. The firm runs its mid-Africa and Middle East online booking operations—including those in Egypt, Kenya, and Qatar—on Amazon Web Services. Using AWS, Travelstart has seized opportunities in emerging markets and has cut operational costs by 43 percent and downtime by 25 percent.

Singapore-based Trax provides a data-analytics solution that uses images from mobile devices to help consumer-goods manufacturers understand inventories, shelf layouts, and other in-store metrics for their products. Trax chose AWS to run its image capture and streaming application and analytics solution in the cloud. Trax now has a solution that scales to provide real-time analytics on tens of thousands of images captured by mobile devices from around the world.

Trend Micro is one of the largest independent enterprise IT security companies in the world. By developing Deep Security as a Service on AWS, Trend Micro was able to reduce its development time from months to days. The company is able to meet key customer requirements, including ease of deployment, flexibility, and five-nines of uptime, as Trend Micro conducted a global launch.

Stateless Systems uses AWS to create and host its website Trendsmap.com, whcih displays real-time mapping of word trends on Twitter. The company uses Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Spot Instances, ELB, and Elastic IP addresses.

When Trimble, a leading advanced positioning technology and mobile solutions provider, purchased a 3D modeling product, the company estimated that it would take 36 months to reformat 2.5 million 3D images using its on-premises compute resources. By using AWS, Trimble was able to reformat all of the images in only one month. The company continues to save $20,000 per month on storage costs using AWS and now has the compute capacity to deliver the 3D software and images to customers worldwide.

Trinity Mirror PLC, one of the UK’s largest newspaper publishers, needed a service provider with an agile, resilient infrastructure for its online assets. Since migrating to AWS, Trinity estimates that the homepage of the Mirror.co.uk website has experienced almost 100% availability.

The AWS Cloud gives Triumph Learning the flexibility and scale to support its annual business growth while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Headquartered in New York City, Triumph Learning provides print and digital educational tools for students and teachers throughout the United States. With fast-paced product cycles and dynamic demand, Triumph chose the AWS Cloud to boost performance for its learning application platform. 

Trust5 develops mobile billing solutions for international enterprise customers. When the company wanted to expand globally, it migrated its mobile billing platform to AWS. By using AWS, Trust5 expanded its services to a global market, decreased time to market by 90 percent and decreased CAPEX costs by 30 percent.

Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, publishes console, online, and mobile games. The company selected the AWS Cloud to support its social game development and successfully launch 10 games in 18 months.

UCAS provides application services to colleges and universities in the UK. Once a year, UCAS experiences massive traffic surges when A-level course results are released and students log-in to see their performance. By using AWS for its website, UCAS can handle peak loads of 200 student log-ins per second.

Unalis provides mobile gaming content and applications and uses social media to deliver technical information, videos, illustrations, and e-commerce services to traditional Chinese-speaking markets in Asia. The business is running its mobile games, mobile analytics platform, and social media services on AWS. This enabled Unalis to save about $370,000 in server costs in the first year, reduce the number of employees needed to run its infrastructure by half from about 20 to 10, and cut three months from the time required to bring a new game to production.

United Daily News Group (udn tv) decided to implement an online news video service to meet the changing needs of its audience. Using AWS, udn tv was able to deploy the service in two months and scale to support a 10x growth in viewer numbers.

The Universal Church, a Pentecostal Christian organization founded in Brazil, experienced outages when streaming special television and radio events. Working with APN partner Dedalus, the church moved to AWS, improving availability while saving approximately $1.25 million in costs.

The Algorithms, Machine, and People (AMP) Lab at the University of California Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research effort designed to build scalable machine learning and data analysis technology. With the help of AWS, the AMP Lab team is able to scale up experiments and try new software on realistic configurations across thousands of computers. The AWS Cloud provides the AMP Lab access to low-cost infrastructure and on-demand computing resources, which support big data projects that include Carat, an application created to help measure energy productivity and improve battery life on cell phones.

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is an open-access university serving working adult students pursuing higher education through on-site and online courses. When its legacy applications were due for renewal, UMUC turned to AWS to build its new analytics platform and several administrative workloads. By using Amazon Redshift, UMUC has improved its extract, transform, and load (ETL) performance by twentyfold allowing it to build more accurate predictive models.

University of Notre Dame (UND), a private, Catholic institute of higher learning, maintains many services to support its student, faculty and administrative populations, including their website.  It needed a scalable IT infrastructure to support its website for future large scale events, including sports championships. It migrated its website and global student and faculty authentication stores to AWS with plans to move 80% of its workloads to AWS in the next three years.

The Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania offers a wide range of IT courses to undergraduate and graduate students. The school took advantage of resources provided through AWS Educate to give its students access to high-performance computing resources for classes such as web systems, mobile-game creation, and cloud computing. By accessing AWS services, the students can get experience building and deploying large, sophisticated cloud systems, giving them experience for real-world jobs.

The Centre for Software Practice at the University of Western Australia wanted to build a platform for online computer science classes. Working with a limited budget, CSP used AWS to launch the Class2Go online platform at less than 10% the cost of previous, similarly sized projects.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BioSense program tracks public health problems to better prepare for and coordinate responses to safeguard the wellbeing of the American people. The CDC recently re-launched BioSense 2.0 on the AWS Cloud in AWS GovCloud (US) and other Regions. With AWS, the CDC can better share important health information among public health professionals and with partners in state and local governments while avoiding costly investments in hardware.

The United States Department of State and its prime contractor, MetroStar Systems, built an online video contest platform to encourage discussion and participation around cultural topics, and to promote membership in its ExchangesConnect network. The contest drew participants from more than 160 countries and took advantage of the scalability of AWS, using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and ELB. 

The FDA receives 100,000 handwritten reports of adverse drug affects each year. Needing to reduce costs and streamline data entry, the agency turned to AWS. Now the FDA and APN Partner Captricity can turn manual reports into machine-readable information with 99.7% accuracy, reducing costs from $29 per page to $0.25 per page.

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the nutrition assistance programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Using Amazon EC2, the FNS has launched a dynamic Web-based application called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Locator to help SNAP recipients find the nearest SNAP authorized stores.

Digital media distributor, utd. by content, needed a cost-effective IT infrastructure with the ability to support spikes in demand during client projects. By selecting AWS, utd. by content can run workloads at 30% the cost of an on premises data center and deploy a new infrastructure in 1/3 the time of a traditional environment.

When Varian needed to simulate a design for a mass spectrometer, a very compute-intensive operation, the company turned to AWS and Cycle Computing, a member of the AWS Partner Network, to decrease the time required to compute product design simulations from several weeks to under one 1 day.

Vembu Technologies, using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS infrastructure, offers the Vembu Pro online backup and cloud storage services for SMBs through its channel partners, who are managed service providers and value added resellers.

Vessel is a next generation video platform designed to give subscribers early access to their favorite video programs across any device. The company chose to build and run its highly anticipated video platform on AWS to avoid the need to purchase and manage datacenters. By using AWS, Vessel was able to rapidly scale to support traffic generated by more than 200 million fans on launch day and accelerate its ability to iterate quickly on its product in a fast-paced industry.

VidRoll is a video technology and monetization platform for content publishers. VidRoll uses AWS Lambda to power the business logic for real-time ad bidding. Using Lambda, VidRoll developers can focus on product innovations, and the company can grow revenue ten times over without needing to hire additional technical resources.

Sydney, Australia-based Viocorp, offers an online video platform to consumers as well as corporate and government organizations for content delivery to a range of devices. As the company builds for growth, Viocorp was looking for a way to scale the business without paying upfront to secure new infrastructure. With the use of AWS, Viocorp was able to reduce infrastructure costs by 50% while scaling to meet anticipated growth in their customer base.

Viskase, a worldwide supplier of casing solutions for the food industry, collaborated with Protera Technologies to implement an SAP disaster recovery  (DR) solution. With a 24-hour, 7-day worldwide operation, Viskase needed a solution that would have limited downtime with reasonable costs. Viskase realized a 1-hour restore time and anticipates a 50% cost savings running the DR solution on AWS.

VivaKi, a subsidiary of the french advertising company Publicis Groupe, needed to process and analyze large amounts of data quickly in order to adjust advertising campaign and maximize return on investment. By using AWS, VivaKi can process more data simultaneously while reducing operating expenses by nearly 75%

VivaReal hosts 6 unique Latin American real estate marketplaces and their central property database of approximately one million properties on AWS. Lea en español. Leia dentro portuguêses.

Australian telecommunications provider, Vodafone, needed to expand its live streaming service to meet high demand during cricket season. By using AWS, Vodafone is able to scale and improve capacity to support 10,000 simultaneous live streams.

Vodafone Italy wanted a secure solution that would make it easy for its customers to buy credit for mobile phone SIM cards. Working with AWS Partner Storm Reply, Vodafone created a compliant, secure solution on AWS that can scale to handle thousands of daily transactions while reducing capital expenditures by 30%.

VSC Technologies is a subsidiary of the French National Railway Corporation (SNCF) under the SNCF online travel agency, Voyages-sncf.com, which handles long-distance and high-speed passenger services. Based near Paris and employing more than 170 people, VSC offers complete technology solutions and services for the railway distribution needs of its customers and hosts critical applications for railway reservations.

Vserv.mobi provides a mobile advertising platform that allows app developers and site owners to create original content for consumers on mobile. Using AWS, the company can scale to serve about 31 billion ad requests on a daily basis while using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs by almost 70 percent.

WebMotors, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, hosts a website where users can post and browse through classified ads to buy and sell vehicles. The company migrated its website to AWS, improving its performance by 45%, saving $100,000, and enabling it to scale up to meet the needs of more than 20 million unique visitors per month.

Wego is a travel search engine that helps customers research and book travel online globally. To improve the overall performance and availability of its solution, the travel company migrated its website and SAP Business One application to AWS. Since migrating to AWS, Wego has been able to scale to support three times the number of users and increase the availability of its SAP application to nearly 100 percent.

WeMade Entertainment is a Seoul-based online-game development company that makes popular multiplayer games. The company uses AWS to develop and test new games and to distribute them to a global audience. Using AWS, WeMade is able to extend its audience base beyond Korea, scale resources up or down depending on the popularity of a game, and spin up compute resources in one minute instead of four weeks using a traditional IT architecture.

WeTransfer, an Amsterdam-based start-up, needed a scalable solution to support its fast-growing file transfer service. By migrating to AWS, WeTransfer can automatically scale between 10 and 60 instances to manage demand and handle more than 8,100 TB of data.

Willbros Group is a global contractor specializing in energy infrastructure and serving the oil, gas, and power industries. The company uses AWS to run its business applications, including Microsoft Office and Integra Link, a custom collaboration and analytics solution for managing pipeline integrity. Using AWS has enabled Willbros to bring projects to market 80 percent faster and scale compute resources on demand.

WirelessCar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volvo Group and is the world’s leading provider of automotive telematics services. The company has developed its own delivery engine—a test and development environment for its own software—based on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Simple Storage Service. Now it’s able to scale test and development environments up and down according to requirements, and can make better-informed business decisions as a result.

Wix is a web-publishing platform used by both businesses and individuals alike that allows users to easily and quickly create websites that meet their needs. The company uses AWS to host their web development platform and manage the delivery of website content to its users. Using AWS, Wix can scale from several dozen to several hundred servers as needed and remove capacity just as quickly, saving money that the company wouldn’t be able to do in a traditional data center.

Wooga, a social and mobile gaming company that attracts approximately 40 million users worldwide per month, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) OpsWorks to host one of Facebook’s most popular games, Monster World. 1.5 million users play Monster World each day, generating up to 15,000 requests per second at peak times.

Worldreader, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing books to children in developing countries, teamed up with soccer team FC Barcelona to send 1 million e-books to boys and girls in Africa. The organization needed a world-class website to accept donations and handle spikes in traffic. Working with AWS and Transcend Computing, Worldreader had its site up and running in only three days without having to sacrifice valuable donations to invest in costly infrastructure.

WOW air is a low-cost transatlantic airline that grew from a startup into a million-passenger-a-year carrier in just four years. The company hosts the majority of its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its websites and internet booking engine, on AWS. It now has the IT capacity and scalability to match pace with its growth, and application latency has been reduced by 68%, which means customers get faster response times when booking trips through the WOW air website.

Xiaomi develops high-end smartphones for the worldwide market. The company chose AWS to launch its mobile application download center cost-effectively and with quicker time to market.

Y-cam Solutions provides wireless cameras and software for home security systems in Europe and the U.S. After launching its service on a traditional hosted infrastructure, Y-cam moved to AWS to save costs and offer its customers 7 days of unlimited free video storage. Now Y-cam is using AWS to store 7 TB of customer data in the AWS Cloud, offer 99.997% availability, and scale to double its user base every 4 months—while saving £125,000 each year.

Y-cam Solutions is a provider of high quality, affordable, and easy-to-use indoor and outdoor security cameras for residential and small business use. As the company prepared to launch a new surveillance video storage service in 2011, it needed a flexible infrastructure that could be launched quickly across North America and Europe without requiring a large capital investment or revenue commitment. By using AWS, Y-cam was able to build its service five months instead of 15 months as originally estimated, and estimates reducing the cost of infrastructure by 80% over a three-year period.

Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app publishes crowd-sourced reviews and photos about local businesses across the United States and in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Using AWS services, Yelp streamlined its testing and development environment to maximize the productivity of its hybrid infrastructure, cutting its test-run time to 10 minutes, compared to as much as two hours previously.

YIT hosts nearly 800 news websites in its data center in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company turned to AWS to launch and host a live notification service for its largest news site, Ynet, when its own data center couldn’t handle the additional load. On AWS, YIT can scale in minutes to handle traffic spikes of up to 80,000 users per second without failure.

Yo is a popular social messaging mobile application built for iOS, Android, and Windows phones. The company migrated its mobile application backend to AWS to help improve the reliability of its application and reduce downtime. By using AWS, Yo can scale to support millions of users, send hundreds of thousands of notifications daily, and improve the overall user experience.

YPlan is a mobile-only app that allows people to browse a curated list of the best events in their city and book tickets in just two taps. By using AWS right from the start, YPlan quickly grew its user base to 500,000 and experiences availability close to 100%.

Z2 produces multiplayer mobile games that offer players an immersive environment with community and social features. The company needed speed and performance to support players worldwide as they interact with each other in real time. By running on AWS, the company can scale quickly to manage worldwide traffic with low latency and gather insights from millions of game sessions to support customers and develop new features.

Zalora is an online fashion retailer in South East Asia and Australasia. The business is running its Australian and Taiwan websites on AWS and plans to migrate its remaining websites into AWS by mid-2016. Using AWS has enabled Zalora to bring new products to market three times faster than in a previous hosted data center environment, increase capacity by 150 percent during peak sales periods, and operate with less than 100 engineers supporting more than 1,500 employees.

Digital ad technology company ZEDO offers products and services that help publishers sell and deliver Internet ads. By migrating to AWS, ZEDO has improved ad delivery times by almost 50% and reduced its operating costs by 40%.

By using AWS, ZengaTV can scale up to handle 50 times its regular traffic and has reduced its infrastructure costs by 45 percent. ZengaTV is a platform for live streaming of TV channels and over the top distribution of entertainment like movies and music videos. The company uses AWS for all of its operations, including its web application, content delivery, and video on demand services.

After acquiring several web properties rapidly, Ziff Davis, a leading digital media company, had to find a way to implement the company’s proprietary technology on the properties and manage them efficiently. By moving to AWS, Ziff Davis is able to create an efficient R&D environment, programmatically create a cohesive environment across its portfolio, and reduce costs by nearly 30%.

Zillow is the leading housing rental and real estate marketplace, used by tens of millions of home buyers, sellers, and renters. Zillow migrated its image-processing and delivery system to AWS to solve performance issues and gain scalability. As a result, the company improved user experience on its image-heavy websites, halved its content delivery network costs, and can now process more than 3 million images per day and serve up to 150,000 images per second.

By returning to AWS, Zynga is gaining greater agility, lower costs, and the freedom to experiment with new solutions to deliver world-class game experiences. Zynga is one of the world’s leading developers of social games. The company started using AWS again in 2015 for certain computing services after several years of operating its own private cloud. With changes to their business over the years—particularly a transition to mobile games—and an ever increasing focus on analytics, Zynga determined that it would stop running its own infrastructure and migrate certain workloads back to AWS.

ZyXEL is a world class networking company providing innovative and reliable Internet solutions to businesses worldwide. Searching for a cost-effective CDN solution, the company turned to AWS and uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver website content to users with high availability and low latency. By moving to AWS, ZyXEL has reduced its CDN costs by 99%.

Canva is an innovative design company that provides online design tools to create flyers, blog posts, websites and other marketing materials. The company is using AWS to host its graphic design platform, process more than 22 million image requests a day, and scale its infrastructure to handle graphics created by millions of users. By using AWS, Canva’s IT infrastructure costs are more than 40% under its forecasted budget.

Bambora uses AWS to provide a scalable global infrastructure as it has grown to a multimillion-dollar business in two years. The company provides online, in-store, and mobile payment solutions aimed at all companies, from small merchants to global enterprises.

Banro is a Canadian gold mining company with exploration and development on four wholly-owned properties, each with mining licenses, along a major gold belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In order to update the company’s IT infrastructure and effectively serve its five locations in Canada and Africa, Banro adopted an AWS Cloud strategy that uses Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and Amazon S3.

Banyan Tree chose AWS to reduce latency and scalability of its websites, which receive two millions visitors annually, and reduced its time to market from one month to less than one week. Banyan Tree is a luxury hotel company that owns and manages luxury hotels around the globe. It uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Auto Scaling, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

The Baylor College of Medicine is a leading contributor to the CHARGE Project, a group of more than 200 scientists who are working to identify genes that contribute to aging and heart disease. Baylor’s collaboration with the CHARGE researchers required a secure, scalable genomic analysis platform. By using AWS, CHARGE can analyze genome sequences 5 times faster than with traditional infrastructure and store 430 TB of data.

Bazaarvoice has the elastic architecture to spin up resources on demand and can easily support rapid data growth by using AWS. The company offers a technology platform and services that help customers collect and analyze consumer content, using that data to increase sales and improve their products and services. Bazaarvoice primarily hosts its service on AWS and supports critical databases using Amazon EBS.

Benchling reduces its CRISPR search times from 30 seconds to under 3 seconds, scales to support CRISPR workflows for more than a hundred organisms, and saves thousands of dollars monthly using AWS. The company provides a complete R&D platform used by thousands of life science researchers across the globe. Benchling runs its genome search platform on AWS, taking advantage of AWS Lambda serverless architecture.  

Using AWS, the Berlin Philharmonic can stream 200 HD videos simultaneously and provides users with the best possible viewing experience by utilizing multiple AWS Regions. The Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall provides a virtual concert hall for its listeners all over the world, letting listeners enjoy recorded concerts uninterrupted. The organization uses Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Route 53, and Amazon EBS to deliver video to users.

Using AWS, Biblioteca de Catalunya reduced costs by four times compared to storing its 26 TB of data on premises. Biblioteca de Catalunya is a national library located in Barcelona, Spain. As part of its multi-year digitization project, the organization migrated to AWS using a hybrid approach, integrating its on-premises resources with cloud resources. Biblioteca de Catalunya chose Amazon Glacier as a reliable, secure, and inexpensive service for data archiving and long-term backup of the library’s more than four million items.

By using AWS, BidMotion benefits from low application latency and has scalable storage for billions of rows of data that can be accessed for analysis by machine learning. BidMotion hosts its ad-tech platform on the AWS Cloud. Its solution provides ad tracking and audience analysis to help companies make their mobile applications more profitable. The low latency provided by the AWS infrastructure provides a better experience for users of apps employing BidMotion.

Blackboard will easily scale its applications worldwide and put new learning tools into educators’ hands faster than before by going all-in on AWS. The company’s focus is on technologies and services that enable student and institutional success across the globe. Blackboard is migrating all of its learning solutions to the AWS Cloud.

Using AWS, startup company Blinq developed its portfolio and brought a new service to market in one month. It launched its self-named dating application in 2013 and followed this success with the howhot.io website, which uses an algorithm to judge the age and attractiveness of people from their photos. Amazon ECS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS form the building blocks of the firm’s infrastructure. 

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.

Boingo Wireless uses AWS to run analytical queries in 25 seconds instead of 45 minutes, load one million data records in 20 seconds instead of two hours, and scale compute resources 20 times faster. Boingo Wireless provides mobile Internet access at more than one million Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe. The company runs its big-data warehouse and dev/test environments on AWS, and uses Amazon Redshift to ingest multiple terabytes of analytical data from different sources. 

BP has increased the performance of its lubricants ERP system, with response times running around 40 percent faster on the AWS Cloud. BP is a global energy company with that provides customers with fuel and energy in over 70 countries. BP selected AWS as its cloud technology provider for one of the company’s SAP applications running in its global Castrol Business, achieving flexibility, agility, and reliability. 

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.

Bustle uses AWS Lambda to process high volumes of data generated by their website in real time, allowing the team to make faster, data-driven decisions. Bustle.com is a news, entertainment, lifestyle, and fashion website catering to women.

By using AWS, Busuu can scale to serve users with fourfold spikes in traffic during busy periods, while saving developers time on routine administration. The company is a social network for learning languages, and provides app- and web-based courses to 60 million people in 12 languages. It runs its infrastructure on AWS, using services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

By using AWS to automate the process of identifying when individuals appear in video streams, C-SPAN estimates it will be able to index 100 percent of its first-run content each year, covering 7,500 hours of content compared to the previous 3,500 hours. C-SPAN is a public service created by the United States cable television industry to make government proceedings available for public viewing. The organization is using Amazon Rekognition—an image analysis service based on deep-learning technology—to detect faces in screenshots captured from eight available C-SPAN video feeds that run 24/7.

CADFEM uses AWS to make complex simulation software more accessible to smaller engineering firms, helping them compete with much larger ones. The firm specializes in simulation software and services for the engineering industry. It uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, and Amazon Simple Storage Service to offer high-performance-computing environments on which customers can run simulation software. 

Cadreon processes big-data queries from thousands of sources in a few seconds and quickly scales to meet growing demand using AWS. The company provides programmatic advertising solutions to branding companies across the globe. Cadreon runs an audience-insights analytical platform on AWS.

The Guttman Lab at the California Institute of Technology uses an AWS-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to quickly add new compute nodes, analyze genomic sequencing data in days instead of weeks, and easily manage cluster access credentials. Led by Dr. Mitch Guttman, the Guttman Lab is a Pasadena, California–based research laboratory specializing in the study of large noncoding RNA genes. The lab runs its growing HPC cluster on AWS, using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to launch resources in a defined network and Amazon WorkSpaces and Simple AD to manage access.

Cambia Health Solutions uses AWS to enable startup healthcare companies to get to scale quickly while providing high levels of security for sensitive information and meeting compliance requirements. Cambia Health Solutions creates and invests in innovations designed to serve the changing needs of individuals and families, including a wide range of companies within its Direct Health Solutions Network. Within the portfolio of Direct Health Solutions companies, Wildflower uses AWS to deliver its pregnancy app to more than 50,000 women and HealthSparq delivers its healthcare price transparency app to more than 70 health plans covering 70 million members.

Canon’s Office Imaging Products division benefits from faster development times, lower costs, and global reach by using AWS to deliver cloud-based services such as Mobile Print. The division is part of the Tokyo-based electronics conglomerate. The Office Imaging Products division uses AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon IAM for test, development, and production of new services. 

With the help of AWS Support, Canon’s Office Imaging Products division benefits from the faster development times, lower costs, and global reach by of AWS to deliver cloud-based services such as Mobile Print. The division is part of the Tokyo-based electronics conglomerate.  

Capital One is using AWS as a central part of its technology strategy. As a result, the bank plans to reduce its data center footprint from eight to three by 2018. Capital One is one of the nation’s largest banks and offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto loans, rewards, and online banking services for consumers and businesses. It is using or experimenting with nearly every AWS service to develop, test, build, and run its most critical workloads, including its new flagship mobile-banking application. Rob Alexander, Capital One's chief information officer, says, "The financial service industry attracts some of the worst cyber criminals. We work closely with AWS to develop a security model, which we believe enables us to operate more securely in the public cloud than we can in our own data centers." Capital One selected AWS for its security model and for the ability to provision infrastructure on the fly, the elasticity to handle purchasing demands at peak times, its high availability, and its pace of innovation. 

Using AWS, Careem to scaled to support 10 times annual growth for three years in a row and is able to focus on building and operating its applications. Careem is a car-booking service and app that serves more than 40 cities and 11 countries in the broader Middle East. The company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2 to host its mobile app, as well as Amazon RDS for databases and Amazon DynamoDB to store locations of its drivers.

Bandai Namco Studios Inc. chose to use AWS to release Drift Spirits, a free smartphone game, because of high server performance and availabilty, low costs, robust security, and availability—all of which support efficient operations. Bandai Namco Studios is an independent game development offshoot of Bandai Namco Games Inc. Using AWS OpsWorks enabled automation, operational efficiencies, and a shorter time to release, from testing environment to production and deployment.

Celgene uses AWS to enable secure collaboration between internal and external researchers, allow individual scientists to launch hundreds of compute nodes, and reduce the time it takes to do computational jobs from weeks or months to less than a day. Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company that creates drugs that fight cancer and other diseases and disorders. Celgene runs its high-performance-computing research clusters, as well as its research collaboration environment, on AWS.

Using AWS has enabled Chai Point to avoid any outages that would affect a range of business-critical systems, including a cloud-based ERP system that integrates billing and supply chain activities and enables real-time monitoring of Chai Point retail stores. Founded in 2010, Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer with about 100 retail stores. The business uses a range of AWS services running in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to deliver its applications.  

By using AWS, Change Healthcare can develop and test new services for its customers quickly, and it can scale to meet large demand while minimizing IT costs and complexity. Change Healthcare—previously known as Emdeon—is the largest health administrative network in the United States, processing claims, pharmacy requests, and performing other functions for more than 340,000 physicians and 60,000 pharmacies. Change Healthcare uses AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS to handle millions of confidential transactions daily from its clients while staying in full compliance with healthcare industry regulations, including HIPAA.  

Using AWS, Change.org can develop and deploy new features faster, it has reduced test build times from one hour to 15 minutes, and it can easily scale to support website traffic spikes. Change.org is the world’s largest and fastest growing social-change platform, with more than 125 million users in 196 countries starting campaigns and mobilizing support for local causes and global issues. The organization runs its website and business intelligence cluster on AWS, and it runs its continuous integration and testing on Solano CI, an AWS-based solution from AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner Solano Labs.  

By using AWS, Chumbak focuses 100 percent of its IT resources on development, releasing new code for its web store every day. Chumbak sells its own designs for apparel, home décor, and consumer-life style goods via its web store and multiple stores across India. It ensures web store visitors can find and buy the products they want easily regardless of traffic numbers thanks to a back-end infrastructure running on Amazon EC2 instances with Auto Scaling, an Amazon S3 data repository, and Amazon Kinesis to capture and process web-store clickstreams in real time. 

By using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cimri can easily scale to meet traffic demands, avoid downtime, and improve user experience. The Turkey-based firm operates a price and product comparison website. It chose to move to AWS to run the entire infrastructure supporting its comparison engine, and currently uses Amazon Kinesis, the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Amazon Relational Database Service.  

Leveraging AWS infrastructure, the City of Chicago had the flexibility and agility to launch OpenGrid, Chicago’s highest profile technology release to date. OpenGrid is a real-time, open source situational awareness program intended to improve the quality of life for citizens and improve efficiency of city operations.

The Cleveland Clinic runs its Healthy Brains Initiative on AWS, lowering operating costs so it can focus on bringing value to patients. The Cleveland Clinic is a multispecialty academic hospital based in Cleveland, Ohio. The clinic worked with AWS Certified Partner ClearDATA to ensure that the Healthy Brains Initiative, which gives patients and neurologists a way to enter and analyze information about conditions and activities that affect brain health, meets the clinic’s standards for protecting patient privacy.  

Clever delivers educational software to 65,000 schools—almost half of all US public schools—meets comprehensive data-security requirements, and complies with data-protection regulations using AWS. The company provides software that schools use to keep educational applications rostered and updated. Clever runs its software on AWS and takes advantage of AWS services to meet the highest security and compliance requirements. 

As a three-man startup born in the AWS Cloud, CleverTap has gone from processing 50 million events per month to 55 billion in just 3.5 years, with a lean staffing model and a heavy reliance on automation. CleverTap is a mobile app analytics and user engagement platform, offering clients advanced segmentation and targeted marketing campaigns. The company has been able to scale rapidly using memory-intensive Amazon EC2 instances on its proprietary NoSQL database. It uses Elastic Load Balancing to distribute often spiky traffic and AWS CloudFormation to deploy an array of AWS resources such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon S3 for storage.

By using AWS, Click Travel supports an agile approach to operations and 40 percent year-over-year growth. The firm specializes in travel management services for businesses through travel.cloud, its self-service web application. In 2009, it used Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS to launch its online travel booking platform. Now embarking on the second generation of its application, Click Travel is building an event-driven microservices architecture, based on technologies such as AWS Lambda.  

Using AWS helps lean startup ClicksMob handle 400 percent growth a year while reducing expenditure by 40 percent. ClicksMob provides a platform that connects advertisers and publishers, optimizing app downloads for the former and increasing mobile traffic for the latter. Its entire infrastructure, including its mobile ad tech platform, runs on Amazon Web Services including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Kinesis. 

Cloudticity uses AWS to automatically deploy and scale its application platform, help customers easily and securely implement their own resources, and give customers agility and scalability. The organization designs, builds, migrates, and manages healthcare systems in the cloud for a growing customer base. Cloudticity runs its Oxygen managed services platform on AWS and uses AWS Service Catalog to create and manage catalogs of IT services.

Clough cuts IT capital expenditure and operational costs by 70 percent and 50 percent, respectively, while delivering a highly available, low-latency IT service with AWS. Clough is an engineering and project-services company operating worldwide. The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon Workspaces to provide global IT services and virtual desktop environments to engineers, relying on IAM for a secure environment for key applications. 

By using AWS, CMPUTE.IO has lowered its server costs by 75 percent while gaining a cloud platform that supports 100 percent business growth a year. CMPUTE.IO manages Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for companies to maximize their compute spend and maintain availability of their applications. The company built a software as a service (SaaS) product that runs on AWS, leveraging core services such Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon S3 for data storage, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery.  

Coca-Cola İçecek cut the cost of running its SAP environment by up to 60 percent while speeding up reporting and decision making by using AWS. The firm is the fifth-largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world and employs 10,000 people across 10 countries. With help from AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Lemongrass Consulting, it migrated SAP ECC from a hosted data center to AWS, and is using services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS. 

Cochlear uses AWS for an automated solution that gets replacement parts for hearing devices delivered to customers in 24 hours or less. The Australian company is a leading provider of implantable medical devices used by people who are profoundly deaf. The application stack it built on AWS streamlines replacement parts ordering, minimizing the time that customers go without their sound processors and eliminating time-consuming parts processing tasks for clinicians.

Using AWS and HPE StormRunner, Codefresh reduces support cases by 40 percent and identifies performance degradation much earlier in the product lifecycle, allowing staff to focus on developing features, working with customers, and growing the business. Located in Mountain View, California, Codefresh is a container platform that accelerates the building, testing, and deploying of containers as applications on demand. Codefresh uses HPE StormRunner Load from AWS Marketplace as its load-testing solution.

Comcast, the world's largest cable company and the leading U.S. provider of high-speed Internet and voice services, uses AWS in a hybrid environment to innovate and deploy features for its flagship video product, XFINITY X1, several times a week instead of once every 12-18 months under its old architecture.

Condé Nast is a media company that aims to create and deliver content suited for multiple audiences on a variety of platforms. AWS provides Condé Nast with the speed and tools it needs to distribute content in today’s fast-paced environment while positioning it for the future. In just three months, Condé Nast has gone all-in with the AWS Cloud.

Condé Nast is a media company that aims to create and deliver content suited for multiple audiences on a variety of platforms. AWS provides Condé Nast with the speed and tools it needs to distribute content in today’s fast-paced environment while positioning it for the future. In just three months, Condé Nast has gone all-in with the AWS Cloud.

By using AWS, Core Informatics quickly and securely deploys GxP-regulated applications, enabling life sciences customers to trace their products throughout the development cycle and save money. Core Informatics provides web-based laboratory management and informatics software to large life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, as well as midsize and startup organizations. The organization runs its lab informatics solutions—including Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)—on the AWS Cloud. 

By using AWS, Corte dei conti is transforming the way its employees work, with flexible, secure access to applications from anywhere, on any device. The organization has judicial and administrative responsibility for the accounts and budgets of all public institutions in Italy. It’s delivering virtual desktops on its Citrix-based platform through AWS, using Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon EC2. 

Creative Market moved mission-critical files onto the AWS Cloud, simplifying operations and maintenance and moving closer to its strategic goal of increasing file-size limits for user uploads. Creative Market is a platform on which independent creatives sell digital assets like graphics, templates, and fonts in their online shops. The company stores 1.3 TB of user-uploaded images on a solution that uses Amazon EFS and Amazon S3.

CrowdStrike uses AWS to implement a scalable, cloud-based solution for preventing cyber breaches with on-demand resources, thereby simplifying maintenance, reducing cost, and improving performance. The company provides security software solutions that help companies protect their data by finding and stopping breaches. CrowdStrike analyzes threat data by spinning up big data analysis resources on demand using the AWS platform. The organization hosts machine learning and behavioral analytics workloads on Amazon EMR and runs a custom graph database called CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ using Amazon EBS. 

CSRA migrated more than 40 critical business applications to the cloud in just four months as a result of a spinoff and merger, met its customers’ data protection and regulatory compliance needs, and gained flexibility and agility by using AWS GovCloud (US). CSRA is one of the largest providers of next-generation IT services to US government agencies. The company was formed from the merger of the US Government Services business of CSC and SRA International in November 2015. It currently runs a growing number of customer-facing and internal applications on AWS GovCloud (US).

CyberAgent is an Internet media-services company based in Japan that operates one of Japan’s leading streaming platforms, called FRESH! The company built its microservices platform on Amazon EC2 Container Service. By using Amazon ECS, CyberAgent has been able to quickly deploy its new platform at scale with minimal engineering effort.  

Daniel Wellington re-architects its Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment with microservices for improved scalability and lower cost. The Swedish company designs and sells watches and accessories based on classic, minimalist designs. It uses services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Cognito.

DataVisor has created a global service that uses big-data analytics to provide security services to online businesses by running on AWS. The startup company provides predictive threat-management services designed to build and restore trust in online communities. DataVisor is using AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon IAM, and Amazon CloudWatch to quickly launch and scale its offerings to customers around the world.  

Deltek saves a significant amount annually in licensing costs, scales quickly to support fast business growth, and stays compliant with regulatory requirements by using AWS. The company offers business software solutions to 22,000 project-based businesses worldwide. Deltek runs its customer-facing SaaS business on the AWS Cloud and takes advantage of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts to reduce licensing costs and stay in license compliance with Microsoft. 

D2L relies on AWS to ensure high availability for educational applications used by millions of learners, to protect student data, and to spin up dev and test environments in minutes. Based in Canada, D2L provides leading learning-management systems for schools worldwide. The organization runs its Brightspace Learning Environment and other key applications on AWS.

DevFactory reduces operating costs by up to 65 percent, invests more into new business growth, and migrates customers up to 60 percent faster using AWS. The Dubai-based software and services provider acquires software companies and optimizes their businesses. DevFactory hosts customer business applications on AWS, speeds the migration of new customers using AWS Import/Export Snowball, and supports additional customer applications with Amazon RDS for Aurora. 

Using AWS Snowmobile, DigitalGlobe is able to deliver petabytes of data in weeks instead of months while saving on costs, allowing the company to deliver data to its customers in the shortest possible amount of time. DigitalGlobe is one of the world’s leading providers of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis. The company uses AWS Snowmobile to move up to 70 petabytes of archive data to the cloud, allowing it to move away from large file transfer protocols and delivery workflows.

Dow Jones & Company provides news and business information for the global investment market. Dow Jones moved the software that hosts The Wall Street Journal in Asia to AWS, saving more than $40,000 each year in hardware and maintenance and enabling its employees to focus on creating revenue-producing applications.

Dr. Lal PathLabs eliminates downtime for applications to book medical tests and obtain test results online by migrating to AWS. Dr. Lal PathLabs is a leading diagnostic company offering healthcare-related diagnostic tests in India. The company uses Amazon EC2 instances for applications and databases that support test scheduling and results collection, as well as Amazon S3 to store all medical-test results.  

Dropcam is a fast-growing start-up that offers a popular video monitoring service so users can monitor homes and offices. By using AWS to scale and maintain throughput, Dropcam reduced delivery time for video events from 10 seconds to less than 50 milliseconds.

The scalable infrastructure from AWS enables Dubsmash to fully focus on the development of products and features and to keep growing fast. The Dubsmash mobile app allows users to create funny videos and share them in different ways. Dubmash uses AWS Lambda for data processing.

Duolingo uses AWS to run an online language-learning platform that stores 31 billion items and includes six billion exercises performed each month. The company reaches more than 18 million monthly users around the world with its free online language learning site. It relies heavily on Amazon DynamoDB for a highly scalable database along with a range of other AWS services, including Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon ElastiCache to increase performance, Amazon S3 for storing image-related data, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for permanent data storage.  

By using AWS, Dynatrace created a “NoOps” IT architecture in 80 days, gaining the agility to launch its software as a service. The firm provides digital performance management solutions to medium and large businesses. It works across multiple AWS Regions to serve its global customer base, and uses services including Auto Scaling, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS to increase automation and minimize management.  

e-Travel ensures business continuity and a great customer experience with a highly available and scalable environment based on AWS. The online travel agency sells flights to customers around the world through its 11 websites. e-Travel’s entire infrastructure runs on AWS, including its back-end services for flight bookings and ticketing and all of its customer-facing websites.  

By migrating to AWS, financial services firm Ebury has gained a flexible, scalable architecture to support rapid growth. The company provides currency services and business lending to small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing them to trade internationally. It runs its infrastructure on AWS, using services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.  

Through its use of AWS, Edmunds.com has developed a highly scalable infrastructure for its entire technology stack while significantly reducing its operating costs. The company operates a car-buying website that is visited by 20 million people each month. Edmunds.com hosts its website and back-end systems on AWS, employs Amazon Redshift as its data warehouse, and uses AWS CodeCommit as its source control service.  

Using AWS CodeCommit, Edmunds.com developers have a scalable, highly available source control service that reduces costs and simplifies administration. Edmunds.com is the premier car shopping destination, serving nearly 20 million visitors each month. After evaluating several Git hosting solutions, Edmunds.com migrated its source code repositories to the cloud on AWS CodeCommit.

Ellucian uses AWS for a global, scalable, highly secure and innovative platform to host its applications to better serve higher education customers in more than 20 countries around the world. Ellucian provides applications for higher-education institutions. Ellucian’s use of AWS, expansive application footprint, and large user base allow universities to scale up during peak registration times then scale down to saves costs and resources, delivering a better customer experience.

Emagine International’s RED.cloud can deliver messages to millions of telecommunications customers in less than 250 milliseconds in response to events through the scalability of the AWS Cloud. Emagine International builds software solutions for telecommunications businesses to increase customer revenue and loyalty. RED.cloud uses Amazon VPC to meet stringent customer security requirements, and Amazon EC2 to run analytics databases.  

Endemol Shine Group uses Amazon WorkSpaces to save 30 percent on desktop operations costs and 70 percent on capital expenditure. Endemol Shine Group is a world leading creator, producer, and distributor of multiplatform entertainment with a portfolio that includes American Idol, Big Brother, MasterChef, Man vs. Food, The Biggest Loser, and Wipeout. Learn more about how Endemol Shine Group is benefiting from Amazon WorkSpaces.

By using AWS, Enel is saving 21 percent on compute costs and 60 percent on storage costs, has reduced provisioning time from four weeks to two days, and has transformed its business. Enel is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas that serves 61 million customers. Enel uses AWS as its platform for IoT and energy management. Fabio Veronese, Head of Infrastructure and Technological Services, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2016.

Using AWS, Essess vehicles collect more than a petabyte per vehicle of thermal imaging data per year, quickly transfer large volumes of data, and deliver rapid and actionable insights to customers. The company offers a vehicle-based imaging platform that gathers and analyzes building energy-efficiency and electric-grid data. Essess runs its thermal-imaging data-acquisition application on AWS.

Using AWS, Europol made its anti-ransomware website available in three days, supported 2.6 million visitors on the first day, and has supported 12 million visitors since the website’s launch. Europol, the European Union’s law-enforcement agency, assists European Union member states in their fight against international crime and terrorism. A joint effort between AWS, Intel Security, and AWS Marketplace seller Barracuda Networks helped deliver Europol’s website solution.

eWATER, a London-based startup organization, needed help to implement a solution for delivering clean water to impoverished communities in developing nations. It turned to Eseye, an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network, for an IoT-based solution running in the AWS Cloud that includes a simple payment system for tap water and continuous monitoring of water systems in rural villages, which gives residents easy, affordable access to clean water.

Expedia, a leading online travel company for leisure and business travelers, maintains websites worldwide to offer localized content to customers. Expedia takes advantage of the AWS global infrastructure to reduce network latency, improve time-to-market, and create a standardized platform that enables continuous innovation.

Faasos drives growth of up to 30 percent each month and minimizes IT management workloads using AWS. The company is one of the biggest food tech companies in India with operations in 15 cities. The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon Aurora to build a flexible IT platform to support all aspects of the business, including its website and mobile app.  

Fanatics uses the AWS Cloud to get real-time insights into customer behavior and buying patterns, to quickly analyze 100 terabytes of analytical data from multiple sources, and to reduce operational costs. Based in Florida, the company is a leading online retailer of licensed sports apparel and merchandise. Fanatics runs a cloud data lake for analytics based on AWS and the Attunity CloudBeam data ingestion and migration solution. 

FanDuel has built an elastic infrastructure using AWS that can scale to meet the demands of hundreds of thousands of users in the run-up to major NFL games. The rapidly growing firm operates one of the world’s largest fantasy sports websites. It uses resources such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Aurora to run its entire infrastructure, along with AWS Support to ensure that services run smoothly.  

FantasyDraft gains high availability and consistent performance for its website, increases its ability to scale to support traffic spikes and cut costs by 50 percent by using AWS. The company is a fantasy sports website that hosts daily contests for fans of all major sports. FantasyDraft supports its primary fantasy sports platform on AWS, hosts a dev and test environment on AWS, and uses a load-testing instance that can easily be spun up and down as needed.
 

FIGmd demonstrates compliance with healthcare industry regulations, gives healthcare organizations confidence their data is protected, and differentiates its business by using AWS and earning EHNAC cloud accreditation. The company offers clinical-data registries and other solutions to a range of healthcare organizations throughout the United States. FIGmd runs its clinical-data registries on the AWS Cloud.

Migrating to AWS enabled Figured to cost-effectively deploy 1,690 new releases in the last financial year and explore new business opportunities such as providing real-time information to banks. New Zealand-based Figured provides financial-management software for farmers, farm accountants, farm advisors, and rural bankers. The business is using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for background job processing and to run its web and virtual private network servers, and Amazon Route 53 to route users to its applications 

By migrating to AWS, FINRA — the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority— has created a flexible platform that can adapt to changing market dynamics while providing its analysts with the tools to interactively query multi-petabyte data sets. FINRA is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity. It regulates one critical part of the securities industry – brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States. To respond to rapidly changing market dynamics, FINRA moved about 90 percent of its data volumes to Amazon Web Services, using AWS to capture, analyze, and store a daily influx of 37 billion records.

Flatiron Health delivers software faster, organizes and improves the quality of oncology data, and ensures regulatory compliance by running its applications on AWS. The company provides software to clinicians to manage their practice, workflow, and patient health information. Flatiron runs its critical data-management and research applications on AWS. 

Fon can deploy customer environments 99% faster, helping it expand its client base from dozens to thousands of companies. The firm, based in Spain, specializes in WiFi management for telcos and other managed service providers (MSPs). It has started deploying its WiFi service management platform for customers on AWS, using services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodeDeploy. It has also piloted big data projects with AWS analytics tools such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon EMR.

Fourdesire successfully maintains business growth of 500 percent in two years with the support of AWS. The company builds online games that are informative and interactive, promoting better health and environmental awareness. Fourdesire uses AWS Elastic Compute Cloud instances to run its game code as well as Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing to direct and distribute incoming gaming traffic. To boost the gaming experience, it has in-memory Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon CloudFront to maximize data transfer speeds across the web.

Foursquare uses AWS to perform analytics across millions of daily check-ins, saving licensing fees and enabling the company to redeploy its dev/ops staff on more strategic work. Foursquare is a technology company that informs business decisions through a deep understanding of location intelligence. Foursquare uses Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service, AWS Direct Connect, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to support and analyze hundreds of millions of application logs each day.

Fraud.net uses AWS to easily build and train machine-learning models to effectively detect online payment fraud. Fraud.net is a leading fraud prevention platform that helps thousands of online merchants detect and prevent fraud. The organization uses Amazon Machine Learning to provide more than 20 machine-learning models and relies on Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers. 

By running its virtual world and asset management software on AWS and by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Fugro Roames has enabled innovative new asset and vegetation management strategies for Ergon Energy’s power network, reducing annual operational costs from AU$100 million (US$70 million) to AU$60 million (US$43 million). Founded as a business unit within Ergon Energy, Fugro Roames helps its clients to remotely investigate the condition and performance of overhead power-line networks. 

Fusionex uses AWS to shift from on-premises solutions to the cloud, allowing it to deliver products to customers in weeks verses months, all while saving time spent on maintaining hardware and infrastructure. Fusionex is a global, multinational IT consultancy and solutions provider, specializing in big data analytics and business insights. Fusionex employs Auto Scaling technology, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3 to improve their operations and shift human resource focus towards innovation.

Using AWS, GameSparks created a high performance infrastructure for its game-development services and can handle two billion API requests a month. GameSparks is one of the leading backend-as-a-service providers to the video games sector and is powered by Amazon Web Services. It makes extensive use of multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service, and AWS Lambda. 

Gannett can deploy new applications and software updates to its digital properties in minutes instead of weeks using AWS and an automated DevOps environment built with the help of AWS Advanced Technology Partner Chef. Gannett is a leading publisher that owns USA TODAY and nearly 260 news properties in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Guam. It uses an Amazon Virtual Private Network, Amazon EC2, and a range of other AWS services, plus Chef "cookbooks" for rapidly deploying digital assets. 

GE Oil & Gas is migrating 500 applications to the cloud by the end of 2016 as part of a major digital transformation. The GE Oil & Gas cloud migration project is helping the General Electric division achieve a 52 percent decrease in IT costs, greater speed to market, and the agility to compete even better in an industry experiencing immense market challenges.  

By moving to AWS, Gelato has gained the elasticity to handle seasonal traffic spikes while maintaining lean operations and containing costs. The firm, which serves more than 40 markets and millions of clients, provides a platform for consumers and businesses to access commercial-quality printing services. It runs its production platform and websites for its Gelato and Optimalprint brands in the cloud using Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. 

During a live webinar, biomedical startup GENALICE processed genomes from 800 Alzheimer’s disease patients in just 60 minutes, which would have taken its competitor more than two weeks to complete. GENALICE develops breakthrough software for analyzing big data relating to complex DNA diseases. It uses Amazon Web Services to run the Population Calling module of its GENALICE MAP Next-Generation Sequencing data analysis suite.  

Geodata stores millions of aerial map images, lowers storage costs by more than 70 percent, and scales to support future website growth using the AWS Cloud. The company provides mapping software and services to customers throughout Norway. Geodata runs the official Norwegian aerial image archive and distribution solution on AWS.

By using AWS, the Georgia Technology Authority has been able to scale from 55 to 72 websites, improve availability to 99.98 percent, and has saved the state of Georgia an estimated five million dollars over a five-year period. Georgia Technology Authority manages the main website for the state of Georgia and provides CMS support for other government websites. The organization decided to host its new Drupal CMS plus Acquia on AWS to take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and application uptime of the cloud.  

Gett scales to keep up with 300 percent annual growth, saves $800,000 yearly, and gains new business insights using AWS. The company provides an online taxi reservation service used by millions of people in Europe, Israel, and the US. Gett runs its website and mobile web application on AWS, relying on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to optimize costs.

Using AWS, GivenGain has been able to grow from 378 nonprofit organizations to more than 2,000 using its system, and has provided a reliable and scalable service to its customers while lowering costs and operational overhead. GivenGain enables nonprofit organizations to run better fundraising operations and increase revenue with tools that let them build and manage relationships and win support for the ideas they believe in. GivenGain uses Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon EFS to manage its activism platform.

By re-architecting and migrating its data platform and related applications to AWS, Global Red reduced the time to onboard new customers for its advertising trading desk and marketing automation platforms by 50 percent. Global Red specializes in lifecycle marketing, including strategy, data, analytics, and execution across all digital channels. Global Red is now all in on AWS infrastructure in the Amazon Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Amazon Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions.

By running its “over the air” firmware updates, mobile billing, and advertising software development kits in an AWS infrastructure, GMobi has grown to support 120 million users while maintaining more than 99.9 percent availability. Headquartered in Taiwan and founded in 2011, GMobi primarily sells its products and services to Original Design Manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers in emerging markets. GMobi is running 90 percent of its business in AWS, including push notification, billing, and advertising software development kit services. 

Goodwill Industries has increased uptime for its stores, schools, and offices, can back up servers hourly, and can restore servers within moments of failure using AWS. Headquartered in Maple Shade, New Jersey, Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to put people to work and help them realize their economic potential. Goodwill uses Cloud Protection Manager by N2W Software—a seller in the AWS Marketplace—for backup and disaster recovery to protect all of its data, systems, and assets.

By using AWS, GoPro quickly built and launched its GoPro Plus service to enable its customers to upload content directly to the cloud. GoPro is an action-camera manufacturer that allows customers to share experiences with others using its products, mobile apps and software. The company relies on the AWS Support team for quick assistance with its upcoming product launches.

By using Amazon Redshift, Grab is able to use real time data computation and data streams to support 1.5 million bookings in Southeast Asia. Grab, a ride hailing transportation platform is available across six countries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines. Grab is using Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Redshift.

Graze continually improves its customers’ experience by staying agile—including in its infrastructure. The company sells healthy snacks through its website and via U.K. retailers. It runs all its infrastructure on AWS, including its customer-facing websites and all its internal systems from the factory floor to business intelligence. 

Using AWS, Grupanya can more easily handle double the traffic during busy periods. It’s one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Turkey, offering its customers group discounts on big brands. The company runs its websites and apps on AWS, using services including Amazon EC2 and Amazon DynamoDB.

The digital division of Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso has migrated its digital assets, including websites and mobile sites, from an on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud to achieve greater agility and deliver better services to customers. The Rome-based media conglomerate operates newspapers, magazines, TV channels, and radio stations across Italy. It runs more than 140 Amazon EC2 instances with Auto Scaling to provision capacity seamlessly; managed services such as Amazon RDS liberate the IT team from time-consuming system administration.

Guardian News and Media, publisher of The Guardian, increased the velocity of releases for its digital properties from 25 in 2012 to 40,000 in 2015 by using AWS. The London-based company is a global media organization that published its first newspaper in the UK more than 200 years ago. It uses a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Redshift that power an analytics dashboard, which editors use to see how stories are trending in real time.

Using AWS, Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in India has eliminated outages and established a highly available infrastructure to support 30,000 concurrent website users. GTU provides business, engineering, pharmacy, and software development courses to about 500,000 students per year from about 500 locations across India. GTU uses Amazon EC2 for its website, applications, and services, while Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS provide storage, and Amazon Glacier is used for long-term archiving and backup.  

GulfMark Offshore uses AWS to save $25,000 a month in operating costs, scale business applications up or down on demand, and ensure reliability and high availability for its critical SAP environment. The global energy services company operates and manages more than 70 oil and gas industry support vessels. GulfMark runs dozens of SAP applications on AWS and is in the process of migrating additional applications to the AWS cloud.  

Using AWS has enabled gumi Asia to achieve 99.5 percent availability, support demand peaks 50 percent higher than normal with no impact on performance, and avoid considerable system redundancy and staffing costs. gumi Asia is a game developer that operates role-playing games (RPG) on Android and iOS mobile platforms. The business is developing, testing, modifying, and running games—as well as supporting databases, analytics, and back-end systems—in an AWS infrastructure.

Project management software firm Hansoft reduced its sales cycle by up to 20 percent using AWS. The Sweden-based company’s project management tools are used by customers with high-performance requirements, such as game developers and organizations in the space and defense industry. The simplicity of Amazon AppStream 2.0 has allowed Hansoft to deliver its software to customers in seconds.

The Laboratory for Personalized Medicine (LPM), of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School took the power of high throughput sequencing and biomedical data collection technologies and the flexibility of AWS to develop innovative whole genome analysis testing models in record time.

HashChing cuts development costs by 25 percent, launches its cloud environment in minutes, and overcomes spikes in website visitors using AWS. The startup company is an online marketplace for consumers to access pre-negotiated home-loan deals in Australia. HashChing’s website runs on Amazon EC2 Instances, and AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy ensure faster website updates. 

Health Guru is one of the leading providers of online health information videos. Faced with scalability and performance challenges, the company switched to AWS, resulting in a 92.5% improvement in web service performance.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for Healthcare.gov, the portal where consumers can find information and sign up for insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act. CMS turned to Amazon Web Services to launch three new features for the website, including an identity management system, a feature for comparing insurance plans, and a tool to determine eligibility for specific plans based on a consumer’s income and other variables. By using AWS, CMS has been able to deliver a stable and highly scalable set of features capable of handling hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users during peak insurance signup periods.

With its data analytics pipeline, the Hearst Corporation processes clickstream data from more than 300 websites and delivers it to website editors within minutes. Hearst is one of the largest diversified media and information organizations in the world, with more than 360 businesses. The company uses Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose to transmit and process more than 30 terabytes of clickstream data daily.

HERE is a global location technology company that provides automotive-grade mapping, analytics, and location-based services to a wide range of industries in the automotive, government, enterprise, and consumer market segments. It uses the scalability, reliability, and global reach of the AWS platform to deliver its HD Live Maps and connected-car solutions to customers around the world.

Hiiir Inc. reduces IT management costs by 80 percent and achieves speed and agility by moving its core applications and services to AWS. Hiiir Inc. is a leading digital media company in Taiwan providing digital marketing consulting services, application development, and e-commerce services. The business is using Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon ElastiCache, and other services to run its e-commerce platform friDay and online-to-offline (O2O) service Alley App.

HostedFTP.com, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement solution for businesses, hosts their file sharing system on Amazon S3 and EC2.

By migrating its SAP Business Suite and disaster recovery environments to AWS, Hoya is saving 50 to 60 percent when compared to its previous private cloud environment. Japan-based Hoya Corporation is an optical manufacturer present in the healthcare, medical, electronics, and imaging industries. The company migrated its SAP Business Suite and disaster recovery solution from a private cloud environment to AWS in less than three months.

The HTC Connected Services Division (CS) builds and manages services for HTC mobile phones. Using AWS, CS can move terabytes of data around the world each day and provide near-100% availability for its services to its customers, no matter where in the world they are.

Hudl ingests and encodes more than 39 hours of video every minute, boosts video upload speeds by 20 percent, and improves data analysis using AWS. Hudl is a software company that provides a video and analytics platform for coaches and athletes to quickly review game footage to improve team play. The company runs its video platform and data-analysis solutions on the AWS Cloud, using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to provide millions of coaches and sports analysts with near-real-time data feeds to help drive their teams to victory.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is looking for clues to the genetic causes of breast and ovarian cancers. The team uses AWS to search and analyze more than 100 TB of genomics data to investigate the causes of those aggressive forms of cancer.

Ideagen can win contracts with large, global organizations by providing its Coruson software as a service via the AWS cloud. The company offers compliance, safety, risk, and information management software to customers in regulated industries. Its application runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Relational Database Service, and Amazon DynamoDB, among others. 

Using AWS, iFit gains the flexibility to meet peaks in site visitors while reducing IT management costs by up to 80 percent. iFit—which promotes healthy lifestyles through its app and wearable devices—is an online community, an e-commerce platform, and a chain of main-street stores. The company runs its website on Amazon EC2 instances with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront ensuring fast access to site content, and Amazon RDS supporting site transactions.

IGS develops online and mobile games 50 percent faster and increases IT productivity by 800 percent with AWS. The company is a provider of arcade-based games and has a growing online and mobile gaming business. IGS runs its online games on multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon CloudFront ensuring maximum performance and content delivery.

Illumina uses AWS to globally scale its DNA sequencing technologies while driving down costs by 100X and meeting the security requirements of different countries and customers. The company is a leader in providing DNA sequencing and array-based technologies for customers in the research, clinical, and applied markets, with 90 percent of all DNA sequencing worldwide being performed on Illumina machines. Illumina uses products like Amazon Redshift to support its BaseSpace Sequence Hub that currently stores 10 petabytes of genomics data. 

Using AWS technologies, IMD Optimad created ARPP.TV, a cross-industry solution commissioned by the advertising industry’s non-profit self-regulatory organization Autorité de Régulation Professionnelle de la Publicité (ARPP). It was devised in collaboration with all media industry players to provide regulatory clearance for commercials broadcast and streamed in France.

Using AWS, Important Looking Pirates can take on new business safe in the knowledge that its infrastructure can scale into the cloud. The company is one of Sweden’s leading visual effects studios, producing footage for some of the world’s top TV series, films, games, and commercials. During peak times it renders scenes using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Infor saves 75 percent on monthly database-backup costs, completes application backups 30 percent faster, and keeps pace with global business growth by going all in on AWS. The organization provides enterprise resource planning and other software solutions to a range of enterprises worldwide. Infor runs more than 30 customer-facing applications on the AWS Cloud. 

Pharmaceutical company, InhibOx, requires virtually unlimited compute capacity for drug discovery research. AWS provides the capacity that InhibOx needs while reducing computing costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

By migrating its application to AWS, injuryConnect was able to win business from an Australian government agency that required compliance with the IRAP security program, and access a robust platform for growth. Founded in 2009, injuryConnect provides software that helps companies manage workplace injuries; the company’s clients include McDonald’s, Bunnings Warehouse, and Kmart Australia. injuryConnect uses Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing to run its web and database servers.

Inneractive saves between 20 and 30 percent of its monthly AWS bill by working with partner Spotinst to set up Amazon EC2 Spot instances. The Israeli company provides technology to facilitate the buying and selling of mobile advertising. It runs its ad exchange platform on an AWS infrastructure comprising Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon ElastiCache. 

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.

Migrating to AWS has enabled InnoVantage developers to spend only five percent of their time on infrastructure and has reduced the company’s time to market from 14 months to seven weeks. InnoVantage provides cloud-based applications to large businesses and government organizations. It uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Lambda to push its Cogito product to a defined set of AWS infrastructure services, create and manage AWS resources, and run code in response to events.

Using AWS, Instapage increased customer in-app activity by 10 percent, enabled marketing and customer success with powerful on-demand reporting, and identified a billing error that will save the company tens of thousands of dollars. The company offers a software-as-a-service solution to build and optimize landing pages for advertising campaigns. Instapage’s data team implemented Amazon Redshift—alongside various analytics tools—to aggregate, warehouse, and synthesize data on a 2 TB cluster.  

Intermountain Healthcare, using Amazon Web Services and working with APN partner Syapse, can provide fast, cloud-based services to oncologists across the United States so they can deliver precision medicine to cancer patients. Intermountain Healthcare, a large health system based in Utah, uses a cloud-based platform from Syapse that works on AWS, delivering a platform that combines genomic information, clinical data, and other information to deliver actionable information to clinicians.  

Using AWS has enabled the International Rice Research Institute and other partners to cut technology infrastructure costs by 30 percent, achieve 99.999 percent availability, and deliver specialized test environments in two hours. International Rice Research Institute develops rice varieties that can withstand drought, flooding, disease, and other potentially damaging events. The organization has collaborated with nine other members of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research to run an integrated enterprise resource planning system on AWS.

Intuit Mint uses AWS to automatically scale to support a 200 percent increase in website traffic, reduce operating costs by 25 percent, and boost website availability and developers’ speed and efficiency. Mint is a free online service that consumers can use to manage personal finances and track and pay bills in a single location. The company runs its Mint.com website on the AWS Cloud.

Using AWS, InVision is able to offer its workforce management solution at one tenth of the cost, helping it address a previously untapped 85 percent of the market. InVision is a leading international provider of workforce management software and online training for customer contact centers. It uses AWS to deliver its web-based, workforce management software as a service, injixo, as well as its e-learning courses and learning management system.  

iRobot leverages the scalability, global availability, and breadth of the AWS ecosystem to support its vision for products used in third-generation connected homes, including its popular Roomba vacuum cleaners. iRobot has sold its robots into more than 15 million households. The company’s innovations leverage a broad range of AWS products for Internet of Things, compute, mobile services, analytics, storage, database, platform management, and networking activities.  

Using AWS, Isentia has increased the performance of two of its communication services by 25 percent and 40 percent, respectively, while helping IT staff be more innovative. Isentia provides media intelligence and analysis to thousands of companies, including leading global brands. To deliver intelligence faster to clients, Isentia built a data pipeline on AWS that features services including Amazon Kinesis for gathering social-media events from across the globe, AWS Lambda for initial data processing, and Amazon EMR to complete processing activities and store massive amounts of data. 

By basing its secure email and fax delivery services on AWS, IXD has disrupted the secure document transmission and messaging industry by offering its services for 80 percent less than some of its competitors’ products. IXD’s services are designed by security experts to help customers securely send and receive sensitive email and documents over the Internet. Using the latest Intel encryption technology in combination with Amazon EC2, the company is able to encrypt customer messages 10 to 20 times faster than with traditional methods. With AWS, IXD is also delivering its services on a highly controlled platform that meets stringent security compliance standards, which is helping to fuel the company’s rapid growth. 

iZettle is growing its payments business in markets across three continents by using AWS. The company’s payment solutions—some of the first of their kind to meet international security standards—allow individuals and small businesses to accept card payments through iOS and Android smartphones. The company runs most of its infrastructure, including its mission-critical payments platforms, on AWS. 

Jampp now processes 250 times the amount of customer data while saving two-thirds on processing costs using AWS. The company uses big data and machine learning algorithms to help its clients—from Twitter to Uber—drive users to their mobile apps. It does this using AWS technologies including Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB.

 

Established in 2000, Japan Net Bank has been able to increase reliability and save money by hosting its Office of Administration platform and disaster-recovery capabilities on AWS. Japan Net Bank is the country’s only internet bank, with a focus on developing and delivering settlement services to its customers. The bank is now looking to migrate more of its infrastructure to AWS, such as its mobile systems.  

This Israeli social gaming company can grow its business while its AWS environment handles up to one million game server requests a minute. Jelly Button Games is a free-to-play mobile game firm based in Tel Aviv. Its popular Pirate Kings title is hosted on AWS. 

Johnson & Johnson is the sixth-largest consumer health and pharmaceuticals company in the world operating in 60 countries. Today, Johnson & Johnson runs 120 applications in the AWS Cloud with great efficiencies and plans to triple that in the next year. In addition, the company also plans to launch more than 25,000 Amazon Workspaces cloud-based desktops for its consultants and employees to use starting in January 2015.

By using AWS to host its website and essential software, Jour de la Terre has increased employee efficiency by 15 percent and cut IT infrastructure costs by 20 percent. The environmental nonprofit designs and implements programs and systems that support adoption of small environmental-impact reductions across individuals, businesses, schools, and other organizations. Jour de la Terre uses AWS products including Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to host three static websites and its essential business software.

By using AWS, Taiwan-based Jumplife supports a 150 percent increase in visitors to its e-commerce platform and achieves a five-time increase in performance on its database service. Jumplife operates Gamadian—an app-based virtual shopping mall dedicated to snack foods. The company built the e-commerce platform behind Gamadian with Amazon EC2 instances supporting web and application services, Amazon RDS for Aurora delivering additional database performance, and Amazon S3 providing a repository for product images.

KCOM, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner, provides United Kingdom enterprise and multi-site businesses with a range of cloud-computing services including consultancy, systems integration and service management. KCOM is a systems integrator that helps private and public sector organisations prepare for an unpredictable future. First engaging with AWS in 2011, KCOM has invested in training, accreditations, competencies, and certifications to establish its practice as an APN Partner.

KCOM is an APN Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Direct Connect Partner. The organization is also certified in the AWS Big Data Competency and is one of a handful of audited AWS Managed Services Partners.

Using AWS, Kdan Mobile supported growth from 1.5 million users to 10 million users over three years, achieved 99.999 percent availability, and is able to scale to support demand peaks. Kdan Mobile provides mobile applications and online services for digital content creation. The organization uses a range of services including Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing to deliver its cloud-service infrastructure.

Kellogg’s is using AWS to increase reliability, improve performance, and conduct faster replication of its mission-critical SAP environments. Kellogg’s is a renowned, 100-year-old consumer foods company that selected AWS to help reduce the costs and overhead associated with managing its traditional IT infrastructure. A key step in Kellogg’s cloud journey was migrating its Asia Pacific SAP environment running on Oracle to AWS with zero unplanned downtime across five countries and leveraging multiple availability zones. Moving forward, Kellogg’s is planning future SAP deployments in Europe and moving other strategic applications to the AWS cloud. 

Using AWS, Kentkart lowered its IT costs by 30 percent and improved customer service levels. The Turkish company develops and maintains smart transportation systems, including ticketing, passenger information, and video surveillance. It uses AWS services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon VPC to host its payment infrastructure and web, mobile, and video surveillance applications for customers.

Using AWS, KFIT has been able to shift its focus to building and improving products for users instead of managing infrastructure. KFIT's website and app provide users with access to studios, gyms, spas, and salons in cities all over Southeast Asia. KFIT uses products such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Elastic Load Balancing to run its web applications.

Using AWS, Kik is able to deliver highly available messaging services that are also fast and responsive. Kik’s leading messaging application is used by more than 275 million young people. To deliver the best services for customers, Kik supplements its in-house server infrastructure with resources hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud. In addition, the company has built a sophisticated data analytics architecture on Amazon Redshift, gaining new insight into subscriber needs and preferences at a fraction of the cost and twice the performance of competing data warehousing solutions.  

Kit Check provides an automation solution that combines cloud software with Internet of things (IoT) technology to help hospitals track medications more effectively, improve compliance and safety in the operating room, and dramatically reduce the time required to restock commonly used drugs. Kit Check uses AWS to connect proprietary on-site RFID equipment with a web-based service that tracks the usage and expiration dates of medicines. By using AWS, the startup company launched and quickly expanded a profitable niche service across the U.S. healthcare industry while avoiding the expense and overhead of traditional IT systems.

By running its big-data analytics and video streaming platforms in AWS, KKBOX has cut the time to create reports from weeks to minutes whlie reducing video infrastructure costs by up to 50 percent. Launched in 1999, KKBOX is a Taiwan-based content streaming and analysis provider with over 400 employees. 

Running employee, contractor, and customer tracking services on AWS enables Kopi Incorporation to achieve 99.999 percent infrastructure availability. This allows clients to analyze and obtain insights that inform decisions such as where retail displays should be located to maximize sales and revenue.  Kopi Incorporation provides employee, contractor, and customer tracking services to clients in industries such as retail and security. The business uses Amazon EC2 to run a Redis data store and its management and basic analytics applications.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore uses AWS to achieve a 60 percent cost savings over creating and managing an internal datacenter infrastructure. The LTA is responsible for planning, operating, and maintaining Singapore’s land transport infrastructure and systems. Using products such as Amazon EC2, the LTA is able to scale and respond quickly to commuter's needs.

Using AWS, Landgate processes land-registration documents in seconds versus weeks, and expects to save AU$51 million over the next five years. Landgate manages land registration across the state of Western Australia, and developed a “land registration as a service” as part of its New Land Registry project. The company uses microservices based on Amazon EC2 instances for compute power, Amazon S3 as storage for land-registry documents, and Amazon RDS for its relational databases.  

LexisNexis Legal & Professional supports more than 2 billion searchable documents, including legal information and news content, cuts server deployment time from several weeks to hours and gains stronger database performance by using AWS. The organization provides legal research and other services to a worldwide subscriber base. LexisNexis runs its News Archive search service in the AWS cloud.

Using AWS, Librato reduced database latencies by up to 500 milliseconds, cut operational costs by 35 percent, and lowered database recovery times to minutes instead of hours. The company offers a cloud-based monitoring platform its customers use to collect, visualize, and store streaming application data. Librato runs its cloud-monitoring platform on AWS, supporting hundreds of Cassandra database instances on Amazon EBS volumes.

By using Amazon ECS, Linden Lab has been able to reduce its build and deployment times by 50 percent or more. Linden Lab is a San Francisco company best known for its Second Life platform that lets users create avatars and other 3D content that forms a virtual world. The company turned to Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) to run a new platform for virtual experiences, scheduled for release in 2016.

Lookout migrated its entire workload from its data centers and into the AWS cloud, bringing its 100 million users new capabilities faster and with greater efficiency. Lookout is a San Francisco-based mobile-security company.Using services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, Lookout is able to shift its focus away from maintaining servers and worrying about data replication, towards delivering new features and capabilities to its customers.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections enables lab-based educational and vocational training using the ATLO Software system for thousands of inmates at four correctional facilities using AWS. The department manages nine correctional facilities across the state. It uses Amazon WorkSpaces within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud environment to provide a secured learning environment for inmates.

lululemon athletica can stand up development environments in minutes instead of days, automate its environment, and enable continuous integration and deployment using AWS. The Canadian company sells yoga-inspired apparel and other clothing at more than 350 locations throughout the world. The company runs its dev and test environments—as well as an upcoming mobile app—on the AWS Cloud.

Luno (formerly known as BitX) launched and grew its business quickly using AWS, providing a secure financial platform to customers across five countries. Its solutions allow consumers and professionals to store and trade in Bitcoin, the digital asset and payment system. The Luno Bitcoin wallet and exchange products run on AWS technologies, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The startup uses AWS tools and features such as Amazon VPC and security groups to create a trusted environment in the cloud.

Lyft is the fastest growing rideshare company in the United States and is available in more than 200 cities, facilitating 14 million rides per month. Lyft uses AWS to move faster as a company and manage its exponential growth, leveraging AWS products to support more than 100 microservices that enhance every element of its customers’ experience.

Lyft is a San Francisco-based ridesharing company operating in more than 190 cities. The company uses Amazon EC2 Spot instances for testing code before it goes into production. By using Spot, the startup saves up to 75 percent monthly versus on-demand instances for routine testing processes that do not require the most current or most powerful compute resources.  

Macmillan Learning can scale its Launchpad digital-learning application to support three times the number of users, scale up or down as needed, and release new application features faster by going all in on AWS. The organization provides print and digital educational tools for teachers and learners globally. Macmillan Learning worked with AWS Partner Relus to migrate Launchpad to the AWS Cloud.

Made.com migrated to AWS to support a record-breaking sales period with no downtime. The company provides a website that links home-furnishings designers directly to consumers. It now runs its e-commerce platform, website, and customer-facing applications on AWS, using services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Auto Scaling groups. 

MakerBot uses AWS to understand what its customers need, and to go to market faster with new and innovative products. MakerBot is a desktop 3D-printing company with more than 100 thousand customers using its 3D printers. MakerBot uses Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift to process data from a variety of sources in a fast and cost-effective way.

Using AWS, Mambu helped one of its customers launch the United Kingdom’s first cloud-based bank, and the company is now on track for tenfold growth, giving it a competitive edge in the fast-growing fintech sector. Mambu is an all-in-one SaaS banking platform for managing credit and deposit products quickly, simply, and affordably. The company uses services including AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS to run its entire infrastructure.

Manthan provides advanced analytics, business intelligence, and solutions for global retail and consumer organizations. The Bangalore-based company wanted to make its highly sophisticated BI analytics platform more broadly available, and decided that moving to AWS would enable cost savings and more powerful processing for its customers. Moving its BI platform to AWS help Manthan reduce its clients’ cost of ownership by 300 percent and decrease deployment costs by another 300 percent.

Mapbox can collect 100 million miles of telemetry data every day using AWS. Mapbox provides an open-source mapping platform for custom designed maps that serve more than 250 billion end users across 11 countries. Mapbox is all in on AWS and running across 10 regions. Mapbox uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store petabytes of map and imagry data, and Amazon CloudFront along with Route 53 for fast content delivery.

Matillion is able to process data up to 100X faster than traditional ETL/ELT tools by using Amazon Redshift. Matillion is a cloud analytics software vendor based in London, UK. Matillion ETL is a modern ETL/ELT tool built specifically for Amazon Redshift and is delivered as an Amazon Machine Image on the AWS Marketplace. 

Matson moved its applications from its on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud and is benefiting from faster performance, increased reliability and security, and IT infrastructure cost savings of at least 50 percent Founded in 1882, Matson is a leading U.S. shipping carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Matson is all in on AWS, moving its critical shipping and logistics businesses to AWS for increased performance, reliability, and security. Matson uses AWS for IT that enables fast analytics and precise tracking of assets and shipments as they move around the world.

Using AWS, McDonald’s Corporation transformed into a digital technology company, beat performance targets by up to 66 percent, and completes 8,600 transactions per second via its point-of-sale (POS) system. McDonald’s Corporation is an American hamburger and fast food restaurant chain that serves 69 million customers each day. McDonald’s uses a number of AWS services including Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, and Amazon ElastiCache to support its global POS system, including 200,000 registers and 300,000 POS devices. Tom Gergets, CTO of McDonald’s Corporation, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2016. 

Using AWS, MeteoPole Zephy-Science makes simulations in record time, conducts multiple simulations simultaneously, and offers a higher level of accuracy without affecting delivery times. MeteoPole Zephy-Science is both a consulting firm and software-development studio that deals with the various challenges of wind-farm projects. The company uses Amazon EC2 to run parellel simulations for as many projects as needed at one time. MeteoPole Zephy-Sciene also offers the ZephyCloud computing platform that allows its customers to use its simulation software tools online without having to deploy them on their machines.

The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) uses AWS to process more than 12 million patient health information messages weekly, keep pace with 20 percent growth in demand for new services, and build and test new features in days rather than months. MiHIN enables the exchange of health information throughout the state of Michigan. The company’s network is used by Michigan healthcare providers and payers to securely share patient information. MiHIN is all-in on AWS, running its health-information network in the AWS Cloud.

Using AWS, MINEMAN cuts its IT infrastructure costs by 60 percent and reduces recovery time in the event of a system outage by 50 percent. MINEMAN delivers its business-critical, cloud-based MINEMAN solution to mining companies to improve the efficiency of metals transactions. The company uses Amazon VPC environments to deliver its MINEMAN suite of applications, with Amazon EC2 instances supporting the environments and Amazon S3 providing fast access to backups and data snapshots.

By moving its websites onto AWS, Mirae Asset Global Investments, part of Mirae Asset Group, has reduced its operating costs by more than half and eliminated the need to invest capital to replace servers, storage, and networking equipment running in a collocated infrastructure. Founded in 1997, Mirae Asset Group provides investment services that span the world’s largest markets, including China, India, and the United States. The organization is running its websites in AWS, and plans to move its intranet onto the AWS infrastructure.

By using AWS, MiX Telematics has cost-effective disaster recovery and backup and can adhere to its customers’ compliance requirements. MiX Telematics provides web and mobile solutions for fleet customers worldwide to manage their drivers and vehicles. It hosts its SaaS application on an AWS infrastructure that spans three regions.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) is the digital products and services division of Major League Baseball. MLBAM turned to AWS for a big data solution that ingests and analyzes 17 petabytes of data on individual plays over a season. Using AWS, MLBAM is delivering new information that helps broadcasters, teams, and fans better understand the dynamics and athleticism of the game.

Using AWS, Mojo Networks reduces the cost of operating its cloud infrastructure by up to 30 percent while reducing management time by 25 percent. Mojo Networks provides cloud-managed Wi-Fi services to companies worldwide. Keen to overcome the limitations of its existing cloud-service provider, Mojo Networks switched to AWS, running customer Wi-Fi services in Amazon VPC environments, with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53, compute power delivered through Amazon EC2, and backups held in Amazon S3.

By running its geospatial data platform on AWS, Monsanto quickly scales to meet growth, provisions compute and storage in seconds, and sets up development and test environments in minutes instead of months. Monsanto provides agricultural products that support farmers and other customers throughout the world. The company uses Amazon Elastic File System to support its geospatial data and analytics solution.

Using AWS, Morningstar quickly deployed an application to help customers choose investment products that comply with the new Department of Labor fiduciary rule. Morningstar is a global provider of independent investment research, products, and services. It uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to host .NET APIs and relies on Amazon VPC for secure connectivity to company databases while retaining the agility to innovate.  

The San Francisco Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) delivers up-to-date online traveler information to tens of thousands of commuters daily, scales to support thousands of additional website users each day, and significantly lowers costs using AWS. MTC’s free 511.org website provides travelers with up-to-the-minute and around-the-clock information about transit, bicycle trips, directions, driving times, traffic conditions, carpool information, parking options, and more.  

Australia’s Murdoch University Centre for Comparative Genomics (CCG) completes cattle-tick genomic analysis months faster, helps create new anti-tick vaccines, and has better control over its research processes using AWS. CCG undertakes bioinformatics and molecular therapy research and development, and provides research services. The Centre runs its genomic-analysis platform on the AWS Cloud.

Using AWS, MYOB scales its infrastructure to support demand for new services and saves up to 30 percent by shutting down unused capacity and using Reserved Amazon EC2 Instances. MYOB provides business management software to about 1.2 million organizations in Australia and New Zealand. MYOB uses a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Machine Learning, to build smart applications incorporating predictive analytics and AWS CloudFormation scripts to create new AWS environments in the event of a disaster. 

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Program for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was able to leverage the AWS Cloud to rapidly provision capacity and successfully deliver engaging experiences of missions to Mars to fans around the world.

National Bank of Canada’s Global Equity Derivatives Group (GED) uses AWS to process and analyze hundreds of terabytes of financial data, conduct data manipulations in one minute instead of days, and scale and optimize its operations. GED provides stock-trading solutions and services to a range of organizations throughout the world. The organization runs its data analysis using the TickVault platform on the AWS Cloud. 

The National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, which used to run their own data center facilities and servers, decided to migrate to the AWS cloud after considering the security benefits. As a result, they have improved security and reduced operational load.

National Instruments (NI) has reduced testing costs by more than $1 million and shaved months off its software development process by using AWS. National Instruments is a global company that provides advanced technology to engineers and scientists, with systems-design software that accelerates productivity and innovation in cutting-edge fields such as healthcare technology, mobile computing, and space research. NI is using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Spot Instances to save time and money while improving the quality of products it offers to customers. 

Netflix uses AWS to analyze billions of messages across more than 100,000 application instances daily in real time, enabling it to optimize user experience, reduce costs, and improve application resilience. Netflix is the world’s leading internet television network, with more than 100 million members. Using Amazon Kinesis Streams, Netflix processes network flow logs rapidly and enriches them with application metadata in a highly dynamic, large-scale networking environment.  

Netflix is one of the world’s leading providers of on-demand Internet streaming media content. The company is planning to use AWS Lambda to replace inefficient procedural systems in its applications with event-based triggers. By using AWS Lambda, the company will offer its developers a new layer of abstraction between their applications and managing the hardware to run them.

Netflix is a leading Internet television network with over 57 million members in nearly 50 countries. The company uses AWS to deliver billions of hours of content per month to users worldwide and run its analytics platform. By using AWS, Netflix can operate a 10 PB data ‘warehouse’ to measure and understand its users’ streaming experience.

NetSeer reduces costs, improves the reliability of its real-time ad-bidding cluster, and delivers 100-millisecond response times using AWS. The company offers online solutions that help advertisers and publishers match search queries and web content to relevant ads. NetSeer runs its bidding cluster on AWS, taking advantage of Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet Instances. 

New York Public Library (NYPL) revamped its fractured IT environment—which had older technology and legacy computing—to a modernized platform on AWS. The New York Public Library is a provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for more than 17 million patrons a year. Using Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS and Auto Scaling, NYPL is able to build scalable, repeatable systems quickly at a fraction of the cost.

The High Performance Computing Facility of the New York University (NYU) Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics was established in 2009 to deliver forefront-computing capabilities to researchers at the NYU Langone Medical Center. The facility uses Globus Online, a free file transfer service hosted and powered by Amazon EC2, as well as Amazon S3 to allow medical informatics and bioinformatics researchers to share data and enable research computing needs that exceed local capacity limits.

AWS enables Newforma to scale its project information management (PIM) solution to meet global growth, deploy software updates in weeks instead of months, and ensure strong security and high availability. The company offers PIM solutions to architecture, engineering, and construction customers throughout the world. Newforma runs its cloud-hosted products and features on the AWS Cloud. 

By migrating to AWS, Northern & Shell has gained a flexible, cost-effective infrastructure that supports the publisher’s agile approach to operations. The U.K. media group produces popular magazines including OK!, New, and Star, as well as the Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers. Northern & Shell uses AWS technologies such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS to run websites and web apps for all its publications. It’s also using Amazon Redshift to gain more insight into customer data and explore new revenue streams.  

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research’s (NIBR) purpose is to cure, care, and provide medicines that treat and prevent diseases, ease suffering and improve quality of life. NIBR maintains a global research network of 6,000 scientists that have 130 projects in development that combine clinical insights with mechanical understanding – focusing on the molecular pathways shared by various diseases. With an average time and cost to take a drug to market of 10 years and about $1 billion, NIBR wants to reduce these numbers using high performance computing.

NTT DOCOMO can deliver analytical queries to its data scientists 10 times faster, add new data sources and analytics capabilities in weeks instead of months, meet security requirements, work with multiple petabytes of data, and scale to support fast growth by using AWS. The company is Japan’s largest mobile service provider, serving more than 68 million customers through advanced wireless networks, including one of the world’s most progressive LTE-Advanced networks. NTT DOCOMO hosts its web service systems and corporate applications on AWS, and uses Amazon Redshift to support a data analysis platform. 

Okta uses AWS to get new services into production in days instead of weeks. Okta creates products that use identity information to grant people access to applications on multiple devices at any time, while still enforcing strong security protections. Okta uses Amazon EC2 Container Service to manage its applications. 

Olympusat uses AWS to support its microservices architecture, saving $25,000 a month by eliminating the use of similar, more expensive services. Olympusat is a large independent media company specializing in Spanish-language movie, music, and entertainment television channels. Olympusat supports its architecture using services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon DynamoDB to deliver its over-the-top platform.

By using AWS, Onedio can launch the English-language version of its content-driven social network with the knowledge that it’s supported by a scalable, highly available infrastructure. The company offers Turkish and Russian social network sites based on users sharing video news content. It runs several of its backend services on AWS, including the engines that power its Android and iOS apps, and its desktop sites.

Ooyala, an international video technology platform and solutions company, provides online solutions for ESPN, Bloomberg, and other customers. By using AWS, Ooyala has the capacity to store 1.5 petabytes of data for customers and scale its infrastructure to almost 5 times normal size to handle traffic spikes.

By using AWS, Orbis Financial lowers the cost per gigabyte of data backups by 70 percent and cuts IT costs for its user-acceptance testing (UAT) environment by 10 percent. Orbis Financial delivers a range of custodial services, such as investment-fund administration and transaction settlement. The company runs its UAT environment, which supports thousands of customizations to online reports, on the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon EC2 for compute capacity, Amazon RDS for supplying customer data, and Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier for low-cost data backups and archiving. 

With AWS Snowball Edge, the Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) at Oregon State University can collect and analyze 100 TB of real-time oceanic and coastal data with no intermediate steps, giving the organization the ability to analyze images immediately using onboard compute capabilities. HMSC is a leading marine laboratory and the campus for Oregon State University’s research, education, and outreach in marine and coastal sciences. Before using Snowball Edge, the organization had been collecting data on disk drives aboard its ship, which it would manually load on to servers in the university’s data center, requiring hours of manual labor. AWS Snowball Edge gives HMSC a portable, high-capacity device that it uses remotely to capture and pre-process collected data.

Oscar Insurance built a technology and data-driven health insurance company from the ground up in just three months on AWS while meeting HIPAA compliance requirements. The company uses AWS to run its insurance platform, customer databases, and analytics solution. By using AWS, Oscar Insurance was able to process more than 25 million historical insurance claims in hours and launch its platform on time.

Using AWS, Pacific Inter-Link Group (PIL Group) reduces the TCO for its SAP environment by 70 percent and expects to save $650,000 in hardware expenses in the first three years of migrating to the cloud. PIL Group manufactures, trades, and markets palm-oil-related products, and provides logistics services around the world. The company now runs its SAP systems on Amazon EC2 instances operating in Amazon VPC environments across multiple Availability Zones. All of the company’s daily and weekly backups are held in Amazon S3 buckets.  

Palringo innovates four times faster using AWS, releasing new chat features and games and delivering engaging content such as real-time statistics to its users. Palringo is the world’s largest network for mobile community gaming, providing a service where users can chat and play games in groups. It uses Amazon ECS, Amazon Kinesis Analytics, and AWS Lambda as part of its new microservices architecture as it migrates from a physical data center to the AWS Cloud.  

Parse provides cloud-based back-end services for mobile application developers. By using AWS, Parse was able to take advantage of Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes for I/O intensive workloads and reduce end-to-end latency considerably.

PayFort delivers trusted, highly secure services to its customers by using AWS’s Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance credentials. The startup provides its payment solutions to organizations across the Middle East, giving customers an easy way to conduct online transactions. It uses services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS within an Amazon VPC to run FORT, its online payments gateway.

By using AWS, PetaJakarta can scale to meet usage demand of Jakarta’s 28 million citizens during flood events while managing costs during off-peak times. PetaJakarta.org harnesses the power of social media to gather, sort, and display information about flooding for Jakarta residents in real time. Running a dynamic set of services on top of a well-maintained hardware platform allows PetaJakarta to provide resilient, flexible services that respond to extreme weather events.

Philips’ Healthcare Informatics Solutions and Services division manages and analyzes data for health care providers around the world. The company hosts its digital healthcare platform, Philips HealthSuite, on AWS to manage and analyze 15 PB of patient data and scale as the platform grows at the rate of one petabyte per month. By using AWS, Philips can build secure and compliant environments to reinvent healthcare for billions of people around the globe.

By using AWS, PhotoVogue provides a better experience for photographers and internal staff, with faster provisioning of services and instant scalability. The online platform, part of Vogue Italia, allows photographers to showcase their work. PhotoVogue uses AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to enable quick uploading and editing of photos.

Pinterest provides one of the world’s largest visual bookmarking tools, with more than 100 million monthly active users and 50 billion pins. The company uses AWS to run its website, ingest and store data, and develop and deploy new site features. By using AWS, the company can maintain developer velocity and site scalability, manage multiple petabytes of data each day, and perform daily refreshes of its massive search index.

Pitney Bowes selected AWS based on three critical factors: cost-effective infrastructure, reliability, and productivity. Pitney Bowes is an American provider of global ecommerce solutions, shipping and mailing products, location intelligence, customer-engagement solutions, and customer-information-management solutions. As a volume-based business, performance and I/O is critical. Pitney Bowes was able to move its Windows-based workloads out of a collocated data center to AWS with zero downtime and without disrupting its customers. 

Porter Airlines relies on AWS to ensure high availability and reliability for millions of monthly website visitors, to scale to support a fourfold spike in site traffic, and to improve its data analytics and disaster-recovery capabilities. The company, a growing Canadian regional airline based in Ontario, runs its customer-facing website and other critical business applications on the AWS Cloud. 

Using AWS, PostDot Technologies supported growth of its synchronization service from 100,000 to 1.1 million users in less than two years. PostDot Technologies markets an API-testing and development tool called Postman. The company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon CloudWatch to build and run an infrastructure that can automatically scale and heal, enabling team members to focus on supporting customers.

The cloud-based presentation software company Prezi is using AWS to make informed business decisions powered by vast amounts of data. Launched in 2009, Prezi has disrupted the software presentation market by offering a zoomable canvas that makes it easy to place ideas within a broader context. Using Amazon Redshift and other AWS data services, Prezi has enabled everyone in the company to quickly obtain the data they need—improving the company’s service offerings and helping executives to identify new revenue opportunities. AWS has also helped Prezi to speed up its development cycle, with new features now introduced in days rather than months.

Using AWS, PropertyMe continues to double the size of its business year on year. The company provides online software to help property managers simplify administration processes. The PropertyMe software, which is available on any device with an internet connection, runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses Amazon RDS for database services. Amazon ElastiCache supports a Redis in-memory cloud cache, while Amazon S3 provides storage for property-related images.

PubNative has lowered costs, improved scalability, and boosted response times by moving to a microservices architecture on AWS. The company provides mobile app and website publishers with a platform to sell native advertising space. It deploys Docker containers using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and uses other AWS technologies, including Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache. 

By using AWS, Quinyx has a secure platform for global expansion that it can use to its advantage when speaking to prospective clients. The Sweden-based company provides software-as-a-service workforce management tools to large enterprises around the world. It runs its software on AWS, using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Simple Storage Service. 

Rabbi Interactive scales to support a live-broadcast, second-screen app and voting system for hundreds of thousands of users, gives home television viewers real-time interactive capabilities, and reduces monthly operating costs by 60 percent by using AWS. Based in Israel, the company provides digital experiences such as second-screen apps used to interact with popular television shows such as “Rising Star” and “Big Brother.” Rabbi Interactive worked with AWS partner CloudZone to develop an interactive second-screen platform. 

Rachio processes millions of IoT messages daily and has cut development costs by 40 percent using AWS. Rachio is the creator of the Smart Sprinkler Controller, a WiFi-based irrigation controller that helps consumers optimize their irrigation schedules. The company uses AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of connected devices with the cloud and uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage its website, apps, and APIs.

RADICA can launch campaigns much faster for global brands targeting Chinese consumers now that its multichannel electronic direct-mail platform RiMANGGIS is running on AWS. Headquartered in Hong Kong, RADICA provides digital marketing solutions to around 300 businesses. RADICA’s RiMANGGIS platform manages large-scale email, mobile, and social media activities targeting consumers in China and uses AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Route 53, is now more agile and simple to manage.  

By using AWS, Rated People now has a more efficient deployment process, which ensures faster, more frequent releases for a better customer experience. The firm runs the U.K.’s largest online trade recommendation engine, connecting homeowners with reliable, high-quality local tradespeople. With help from AWS Premier Consulting Partner Cloudreach, Rated People moved to a Docker environment using the Amazon EC2 Container Service to enable smoother deployments. 

By using AWS, Razorpay completes data migration with less than four minutes’ downtime and minimizes disruption to merchants using its online-payment gateway. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, India, Razorpay’s payment-gateway services are used by more than 30,000 merchants. The business is using a range of AWS services, including Auto Scaling to automate the process of scaling and Amazon EC2 instances to support peaks and troughs in demand.  

Realtor.com uses AWS to support 50 million monthly website visitors, process tens of millions of ad impressions per day, and enable a DevOps development model. The organization runs a popular online real estate listing website that provides millions of for-sale listings and other information for buyers, sellers, and renters. Realtor.com runs its ad impression platform, website, and other solutions on AWS.

 

Reckon achieves 99.999 percent availability and scales to support traffic surge now that its online and hosted accounting solution is running on AWS. Reckon provides accounting software for small to midsize businesses, and practice-management software for larger accounting practices in Australia and New Zealand. To meet customers’ expectations, the business uses AWS services such as Auto Scaling to support spikes in traffic, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to manage tasks such as capacity provisioning and load balancing. 

RecoChoku adopted Amazon Aurora as the database for its membership system that manages customer information, resulting in a database system that provides high reliability and availability for managing customer information, which is a crucial part of business. Starting with Chaku-Uta, RecoChoku has been a driving force among music streaming services in Japan. With the migration of the membership database complete, all core systems have been moved to AWS and migration of all other systems is scheduled to finish in March 2017.

Rednun has quadrupled its revenue by scaling up its personalized video business using Amazon Web Services. Rednun uses data about its clients’ customers to produce millions of personalized videos. It uses thousands of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Spot instances, as well as services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service.  

Rent-A-Center (RAC) uses AWS to manage its new e-commerce website, scale to support a 1,000 percent spike in site traffic, and enable a DevOps approach. RAC is a leading renter of furniture, appliances, and electronics to customers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. The company runs its e-commerce website on the AWS Cloud.

Royale International Group achieved 300 percent growth in the first six months of its new courier service to Hong Kong-based 7-Eleven stores—popular collection points for online purchases—through the scalability and simplified management of AWS. Royale International Group offers express delivery services to businesses worldwide. The company is taking advantage of the Amazon API Gateway service to ensure 7-Eleven store managers, online merchants, and couriers have the latest information on their shipments. The company also uses a range of AWS services such as Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon DynamoDB for database services, and AWS Lambda to increase operational efficiency.

By using Amazon Web Services, RWE Czech Republic is enabling growth, improving IT services to the business, and reducing operational expenses by 12 percent compared to its previous data center environment. As part of Europe-wide RWE Group, the firm operates gas and electricity services across the Czech Republic. It is currently running its SAP HR systems on an Oracle database on AWS, using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 within a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, and is using other AWS services to support SAP Landscapes.

Sage Human Capital doubled its business revenue with half the staff using a solution from AWS Marketplace. Sage Human Capital, based in San Bruno, California, provides a cloud-based “talent-as-a-service” recruiting platform for businesses seeking to fill executive and non-executive rolls. The company uses TIBCO Jaspersoft, a reporting and analytics platform available in AWS Marketplace, to provide its HR clients with an analytics solution that accelerates hiring by delivering a detailed view of each stage of the job candidate pipeline. 

San Francisco State University, in collaboration with the Stanford Helix Group, needed to accelerate computations for their research project, FEATURE. Using machine learning techniques and Amazon EC2, the teams were able to complete research that previously would have taken them weeks in just hours while reducing computing costs.

Sanlih E-Television is saving 30 percent now that its platform to support a multichannel online strategy is running on AWS. Founded in 1983, Sanlih E-Television is a nationwide cable TV network delivering some of the most popular TV channels in Taiwan. To help maintain its leading position, the company developed an online strategy using AWS services such as Amazon EC2 to run its website and Amazon Kinesis as an engine for real-time application monitoring and clickstream analytics.

Saturn Systemwares reduces cost by 30 percent and simplifies its billing system by developing and running its online booking service—Sabarimala Virtual Q Portal—on AWS. Founded in 2006, Saturn Systemwares delivers a range of IT solutions and services to businesses and government agencies across India. To assist the state’s police department in managing arrangements for pilgrims to Sabarimala—a Hindu pilgrimage center—the business is using AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Auto Scaling, and AWS Lambda to run its online booking portal.

Score Media Ventures is the digital arm of Score Media, Inc. Score Media Ventures offers fans multiplatform content, displaying the edgy side of sports news and information. In order to maintain a balance between rapid development cycles, service uptime, and transparent access to sports data, Score Media uses Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses, and Amazon RDS.

By migrating to AWS, SGN has become more secure and agile while reducing costs. SGN is a United Kingdom gas-distribution company that manages the distribution network for natural and green gas to almost six million homes and businesses across Scotland and the south of England. The company runs multiple workloads on AWS, including key analytics platforms and mobile applications.

 

Lifting and shifting its website from dedicated hosting to AWS helped Seeking Alpha beat a six-month deadline, move from a maintenance to a DevOps mindset, and eliminate most production issues. Seeking Alpha provides a platform on which more than 15,000 investment analysts earn money by publishing their own independent investment news and analysis for an audience of millions. The Seeking Alpha solution includes on-demand Amazon EC2 instances to absorb traffic spikes and Amazon S3 for storing content and backups.  

Sequence Bio uses AWS to host its data platform it uses to analyze large amounts of genetic data. Sequence Bio is a Newfoundland and Labrador biotechnology company striving to improve how it treats diseases and develops medicine. The company uses AWS to compute genetic data to help identify patterns across disease and genetic groups used in drug discovery.

ServisHero started its mobile app on AWS for a reliable and scalable infrastructure and to get support from the local developer community. ServisHero is a mobile app that allows users to find more than 3,000 service providers in Malaysia. ServisHero uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. 

Seven Bridges Genomics uses AWS to provide researchers with IGOR, a cloud platform that helps them analyze DNA sequencing data. Using AWS has helped enable Seven Bridges to provide their customers with complex genetics analysis at a large scale and at low cost—typically saving researchers 40% compared to in-house solutions.

By using Amazon ECS, Shippable has been able to focus on delivering features to its customers and has sped feature deployment times from once a week to multiple per day. Shippable provides a hosted continuous integration and deployment platform. The company built its platform using a microservices architecture on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service.

When Signature Holdings wanted to replace its outdated ERP system with Oracle E-Business Suite, the company turned to APN partner CTR. Signature worked with CTR to develop a full-production Oracle ERP solution on AWS that successfully passed SOX audits for security, backup and disaster recovery. The company estimates that the total cost of ownership of running Oracle applications on the AWS Cloud is one-third the cost of on-premises solution.

Simfy Africa is supporting growth into new markets through its scalable, low-latency environment based on AWS. The startup offers music-streaming services to customers, giving them online and offline access to more than 34 million songs. Simfy Africa’s AWS infrastructure consists of Amazon EC2 instances within an Amazon VPC across multiple Availability Zones. The company monitors and optimizes resources using Amazon CloudWatch. 

SimplePay used Riverbed SteelConnect Gateway to go global in three months, building a globally-replicated redundant network, required for the financial industry — yet they can scale up and down as needed. Simple Pay, based in Sydney Australia, lets businesses and consumers securely send and receive payments online or through their mobile phones. Using Riverbed SteelConnect in AWS Marketplace, SimplePay has deployed several gateways in AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to handle thousands of transactions per second — with heavy database use that must replicate and synchronize throughout the world.

Sinch—a spinoff from Swedish telecommunications firm Rebtel—provides developers with tools to integrate communications functionality into their applications. The company’s business intelligence solution runs on AWS. Moving to the cloud enables Sinch to handle big data cost-effectively, in a highly available environment, for fast reporting and business insight 24/7.

Slack provides a messaging platform for unifying diverse communications services. Slack’s platform runs on AWS, leveraging a wide range of cloud services. By using AWS, Slack can scale up to serve a user base that’s growing five percent each week, add capacity for new users in mere seconds, and protect the confidentiality of its customers’ information while processing 30 million messages weekly.

Snowplow Analytics, an open-source analytics platform, enables enterprises to track customer behavior and analyze data from any source with any tool. Needing real-time analysis of highly granular data, Snowplow Analytics built its platform on AWS, enabling real-time processing of hundreds of millions of events each day.

Software AG, an AWS Partner Network Technology Partner, has increased its operational efficiency and has been able to pursue a number of joint go-to-market opportunities by deciding to go all-in on AWS. Software AG offers the first end-to-end digital business platform—based on open standards, with integration, process management, adaptive application development, real-time analytics and enterprise architecture management as core building blocks—to help customers build digital futures today. Software AG also participates in the AWS SaaS Partner Program.  

Sony DADC New Media Solutions has been able to elastically scale its infrastructure and automate workflows, making linear broadcast content available as a video-on-demand (VoD) streaming content. Under its Ven.ue brand, Sony DaDC New Media Solutions (NMS) provides digital supply-chain solutions targeting major film studios, broadcasters, music labels, game companies, and other content providers. NMS started its move to AWS by migrating its Ven.ue distribution workflows, running on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances, and is using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier to move its 20-petabyte video archive and Amazon CloudFront as its global content delivery network service to accelerate content delivery to customers.

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.

Space Ape Games is a mobile game studio known for titles such as Rival Kingdoms and Samurai Siege. The company builds its games fully on AWS. Space Ape Games turned to AWS Enterprise Support to assist with the management of its infrastructure during large, mission-critical events such as feature launches and bringing new titles to market.

Sparta Systems uses the AWS Cloud to host quality-management systems for the life sciences industry that maintain data integrity, foster collaboration across a company’s quality ecosystem, and enable customers to deliver safer products to consumers. Sparta Systems hosts a solution on which pharmaceutical and medical-device companies can operate validated workloads that can be secured, analyzed, and verified by regulatory agencies. Using a variety of AWS services, it helps these customers minimize the costs and work interruptions that come with regulatory investigations and manage quality for processes across their entire production life cycle.

Splunk helps customers move production workloads to the AWS Cloud with confidence. The company is all in on AWS to provide its customers with reliable, scalable, secure and efficient cloud solutions that enable them to transform any type of machine data into operational intelligence. By using AWS, Splunk is able to offer its services to customers around the globe at a cost-effective price.

By using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to aggregate billions of records, Spokeo is able to render its web pages faster to rank higher on Google search. Spokeo, headquartered in Pasadena, California, is a website that enables users to search for people by first or last name, address, phone number, or social handles—or any combination of these identifiers. The company uses Amazon EFS along with Amazon EC2 and Amazon DynamoDB to aggregate and store 12 billion records, delivering web pages more quickly to users and web crawlers. 

Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service which offers its users instant access to more than 16 million songs. The company uses AWS to store its vast repository of music, which provides scalable capacity for past hits, current favorites—and the soundtrack of tomorrow.

With an ambition to connect 20 million cars across Europe by 2020 through its SPARK technology, Springworks needed a highly scalable service that allowed its developers to get features to market fast. It chose to build its Internet of Things (IoT) platform in the AWS Cloud, benefitting from the robust security that’s vital to its partners. One such partner is TeliaSonera, the largest mobile operator in Sweden, which uses SPARK to power its IoT application, Telia Sense. Telia Sense gives drivers a wealth of useful information about their cars, including service alerts and location tracking, and it opens revenue streams for the mobile operator by linking car owners to service providers such as insurance firms and car repair shops.

 

Using AWS has enabled Square Enix to reduce the time it takes to process video-game screenshots during traffic spikes from several hours to a little over 10 seconds, all while cutting costs to five percent of those of an on-premises solution. Square Enix is a producer of creative and innovative content and services in the fields of gaming and entertainment. Shifting image processing from an in-house environment to a cloud environment using AWS Lambda enabled faster processing while integrating the existing on-premises environment.

The Finnish game company Supercell uses AWS to manage the growth of its wildly popular tablet and mobile games Hay Day and Clash of Clans. With more than 8.5 million daily players, Supercell needs the ease of use and scalability that AWS provides to create and run these games.

Symsoft can deploy its telecommunications solutions 30 percent faster with AWS. The Swedish firm provides cloud-based services and software solutions to mobile network operators in more than 40 countries, with millions of end users. Symsoft uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances to support its cloud-based platform deployments.

Tavisca Solutions has reduced the time required to bring new travel agencies onboard its hosted services—to three weeks from six months—using AWS. The company provides software platforms and solutions to the travel industry, enabling travel agencies to operate online. It uses Amazon ECS to provide containerized environments for individual agencies.  

TechnipFMC enhances security, provisions IT services quickly, and creates a repeatable foundation for future application migrations using the AWS Service Catalog. The company offers global project management, engineering, and construction services to organizations in the energy industry. TechnipFMC will use the AWS Service Catalog to provision and deploy IT services through a central console.

Using AWS, TechnologyOne simplified its business model and is now able to move faster with more focus on the customer. TechnologyOne is an enterprise software company based in Australia. The company moved its IT environment from physical data centers and into the AWS cloud, eliminating the need to manage infrastructure.

Using AWS, The Carlyle Group has been able to save up to $40,000 a year on maintenance costs with full redundancy and increased mobility. The Carlyle Group is one of the largest investment firms operating around the globe. Partnering with Ctera Networks, the company moved its physical file servers into the cloud, saving time, space, and costs and gaining an added level of data redundancy to keep its information secure.

The Globe and Mail is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver dynamic, personalized content to its readers and has boosted reader engagement by 25 percent. Established more than 170 years ago, Canada’s number-one weekday and weekend newspaper has more than 4.7 million weekly digital readers. The company wanted to offer its online readers a personalized recommendation system, and had help from ClearScale, a Premier Consulting Partner, to build that system on AWS. The newspaper processes, stores, and analyzes recommendation data using big-data tools including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce.  

The Kellogg Company has been producing cereal and other breakfast fare for a worldwide audience for more than 100 years. Needing a more robust application to track and model promotional costs, the company is now running SAP HANA on AWS, a move that will save $900,000 in IT costs over 5 years and speed deployment by 90% compared to traditional data center solutions.

By adopting AWS, the Met Office has increased its ability to deliver tailored meteorological information to users—it can deploy 30 times more frequently—while maintaining the integrity of its on-premises supercomputer environment. A world leader in weather and climate services, the Met Office provides accurate, accessible forecasts, severe weather warnings, and weather services to a variety of users across the globe. The organization has taken advantage of the AWS platform to reduce costs, assess architectural options rapidly, and scale data storage by tenfold. 

Thermo Fisher is one of the world’s leaders in serving scientists with tools and technologies that enable better research globally. To help accelerate science, the company built its new Thermo Fisher Cloud on AWS where it helps scientists and researchers store, analyze, and share medical data. By using AWS, the company was able to build this new solution in less time and at lower costs than what would have been required by an on-premises solution.

Thomas Publishing is using AWS to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in data center costs, quickly launch new websites by spinning up resources in one day instead of several weeks, and rapidly migrate critical Oracle applications to the cloud. The company links industrial buyers and suppliers by offering an array of information and services online and in print. Thomas runs its primary website on AWS, and worked with AWS Partner Apps Associates to migrate key content management applications to Amazon Aurora on RDS.

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.

By using AWS services and analytic solutions available on the AWS Marketplace, Thrive Market deployed a highly scalable platform that helped the company go from zero to $100 million in revenues in 14 months while obtaining a 360-degree view of their customers. Thrive Market is an online startup that sells organic food and beauty products. It uses Amazon Redshift, Matillion ETL for Redshift, and Tableau for its data analytics. 

When Time Inc.’s new chief technology officer joined the renowned media organization in early 2014, he promised big changes. The company—built over 93 years into a global enterprise with dozens of brands, such as People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly and, of course, Time magazine—would close its legacy data centers and move to the Amazon Web Services cloud. The decision sparked major internal changes and challenges, including new ways to implement security. With AWS, Time Inc. can leverage security features and functionality that mirror the benefits of cloud computing, including rich tools, best-in-class industry standards and protocols, and lower costs. 

Using AWS, Tink can focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management and test ideas 85 percent faster than before. The Sweden-based startup launched its app in 2012 with the aim of giving users an easy way to control their personal finances, connecting their bank accounts and credit cards to help them keep track of their money. AWS technologies help to ensure that Tink complies with data-security standards and give the company a robust platform that is trusted by business partners and customers.

TLG Aerospace reduces computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation costs by 75 percent, scales aerodynamic simulations to more than a thousand cores, and gained online simulation metrics by using AWS. TLG is a growing aerospace engineering organization that conducts CFD analysis of aircraft for a worldwide customer base. The company runs simulations on AWS and uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor CFD job progress online.

Using AWS, TLG Commerce delivers high availability and instant scaling for its customers’ online stores. The firm creates customized virtual storefronts through its LogiCommerce e-commerce solution for clients such as Muji, Herman Miller, and Lacoste. TLG Commerce uses Amazon CloudFront for content delivery worldwide, while Auto Scaling in Amazon EC2 handles fluctuations in load. 

Toyota Tsusho uses AWS to quickly scale their data processing of traffic data from over 50 thousand vehicles, while reducing costs up to 35 percent. Toyota Tsusho Electronics (Thailand) is a subsidiary of Toyota Group Japan and manufacturer of vehicle embedded software applications. Toyota Tsusho launched TSquare, a traffic information broadcasting system, which provides users real-time traffic data in Bangkok and 6 suburb provinces. Toyota Tsusho uses AWS products such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Kinesis, and DynamoDB to process large amounts of data in a scalable and reliable way. 

Using AWS, TraceLink helps life sciences companies achieve compliance with global track-and-trace regulations in GxP-compliant environments, scales its data-exchange network to support hundreds of thousands of supply chain partners, and helps companies save millions of dollars. The organization provides a track-and-trace network that connects life sciences companies and stops counterfeit drugs from entering the marketplace. TraceLink runs its cloud-based track-and-trace solution and data exchange on the AWS Cloud. 

Using AWS, Tradeshift has been able to launch quickly and handle 250 percent year-over-year growth by providing advanced business software that manages suppliers, invoicing, and procurement for 800,000 companies. The Danish startup offers a business commerce platform and network that helps firms innovate the way they buy, pay, and work together. It runs this network—as well as its test, development, and deployment pipelines—on AWS.  

Trainline maintained high-speed growth during a year-long migration to AWS, while improving agility, security, and availability. By transitioning to a microservices model, the development team at Trainline has been able to switch to continuous delivery, and do so four months ahead of target. It has gone from a six-week development cycle to pushing out more than 70 updates in one week.

Using AWS, Travis Perkins plc is creating a continuous-development and -deployment cycle, supporting its businesses by increasing automation and boosting performance of mission-critical systems. The group, which operates 21 brands including home-improvement site Wickes, has supplied materials to the United Kingdom’s building and construction markets for more than 200 years. The firm uses AWS technologies including Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS to run SAP Hybris environments for the group’s digital store fronts.  

TrueMoney provides digital payment services to residents of South East Asian countries. The business is running its e-wallet web application, payment gateway, and websites in an AWS infrastructure. This has enabled TrueMoney to reduce its capital costs by at least three million Thai baht (US$83,000), establish a centralized platform to expand into new markets, and reduce the personnel resources required to administer its infrastructure from two team members to half the time of one team member.

Twilio uses AWS to deploy an average of 30 features a day and maintain 99.999% availability. Twilio provides a communications platform as a service to customers like Uber, Netflix, and Airbnb. Twilio is all in on AWS to power its cloud-scale communication apps globally. Cofounder, CEO, and Chairman Jeff Lawson spoke onstage at re:Invent 2016. 

Using AWS, the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute processed 20,000 cancer samples in days instead of months, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and powering innovative new research. The Institute—which was founded to lead UC Santa Cruz’s efforts to unlock the world’s genomic data—analyzes computational genomics, cancer genomics, and other genomic data. The organization runs its scientific-workflow software solution—called Toil—on the AWS Cloud. 

The UK Data Service is using Amazon Web Services to provide highly secure access to data via scalable APIs, providing new ways for researchers, citizens, policymakers, and businesses to get value from the United Kingdom’s data resources. The UK Data Service provides unified access to the United Kingdom’s largest collection of social, economic, and population data. The Service will ingest data using a customized open-source infrastructure running on Amazon EC2, hosting the cloud portion of its data lake on Amazon S3.  

By moving to the AWS Cloud, the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) can use technology to enhance the effectiveness and fairness of the services it provides to British citizens. The MoJ is a ministerial department of the UK government. MoJ had its own on-premises data center, but lacked the ability to change and adapt rapidly to the needs of its citizens. As it created more digital services, MoJ turned to AWS to automate, consolidate, and deliver constituent services. Using AWS services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Route 53, MoJ has been able to turn technology into an enabler for more fair and effective justice.

Using AWS, uMotif facilitates medical research by improving the quality of data captured during clinical studies. The company’s software makes it easy for patients to record their experiences during a study, using mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. The data is then regularly synced to a cloud-based, backend infrastructure running on the AWS Cloud.

Unbabel has cut its infrastructure bills by 50 percent using AWS, while at the same time boosting performance and eliminating downtime. The startup uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human translation to deliver fast, cost-effective, high-quality translation services globally. Unbabel moved its entire infrastructure—including its machine translation platform—to AWS, using services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and AWS Elasticsearch Service.  

Under Armour can scale its Connected Fitness apps to meet the demands of more than 180 million global users, innovate and deliver new products and features more quickly, and expand internationally by taking advantage of the reliability and high availability of AWS. The company is a global leader in performance footwear, apparel, and equipment. Under Armour runs its growing Connected Fitness app platform on the AWS Cloud.

Unified uses AWS to ingest terabytes of advertising data daily, aggregating and analyzing the data and providing insights to media buyers and brand managers. The company helps customers manage their social media advertising investments and insights in real time. Unified runs its advertising and marketing analysis platform on AWS.

Unilever is a global consumer goods corporation with a presence in more than 190 countries. By using AWS, Unilever was able to migrate 500 web properties in less than 5 months to a standardized digital marketing platform capable of supporting global campaigns, and reducing the time to launch new projects by 75%.

The Algorithms, Machine, and People (AMP) Lab at the University of California Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research effort designed to build scalable machine learning and data analysis technology. With the help of AWS, the AMP Lab team is able to scale up experiments and try new software on realistic configurations across thousands of computers. The AWS Cloud provides the AMP Lab access to low-cost infrastructure and on-demand computing resources, which support projects that include analyzing genome sequencing data to help advance cancer research.

The University of Chicago’s Computation Institute builds solutions to provide “science as a service” to researchers. The Institute uses AWS to host its Globus Transfer and Globus Genomics services and offer more than 99% availability to its customers.

University of Maryland, College Park uses the AWS Cloud to create a stable, secure and modern technical environment for its students and staff while ensuring compliance. The University of Maryland is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland, and is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. The university is using AWS to migrate all of its datacenters to the cloud, as well as Amazon WorkSpaces to give students access to software anytime, anywhere and with any device.

Upserve quickly develops and trains more than 100 learning models, streams restaurant sales and menu item data in real time, and gives restaurateurs the ability to predict their nightly business using Amazon Machine Learning. The company provides online payment and analytical software to thousands of restaurant owners throughout the U.S. Upserve uses Amazon Machine Learning to provide predictive analysis through its Shift Prep application.

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.

Using software from the AWS Marketplace, Vango can now build its digital-media products faster to generate more revenue. Located in San Francisco, CA, Vango is an online marketplace that helps art lovers find and purchase art online. Vango uses Imagizer Media Engine for AWS to efficiently manipulate and manage images, support new interfaces in its applications, build images for its branding and digital assets, and prototype new designs.

By migrating to AWS, Vend has reduced its overall infrastructure costs by 40 percent while gaining the flexibility to change its infrastructure to meet its specific requirements. Founded in 2010, Vend provides cloud-based point-of-sale software to retailers around the world. The business uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS for a range of workloads; the company's core databases run on Amazon RDS.

Veolia Water Technologies reduces operating costs by 90 percent and accesses new opportunities for innovation using AWS. Veolia offers its eight million customers a full range of technologies and services in the design and construction, operation, maintenance, modernization, and management of water-treatment and sanitation systems. After searching for private cloud solutions and faced with the rigidity of this type of structure, Veolia Water France turned to AWS and the public cloud, allowing it to set up virtual data centers and operate its systems without any constraints.

By using AWS, Verge Health shortened the time to deploy HIPAA-compliant development environments from three weeks to just a few minutes. Founded in 2001, Verge Health provides the governance, risk, and compliance platform of choice for more than 900 health systems and hospitals nationwide. The company uses AWS Service Catalog to self-provision the resources it needs to create comprehensive health care risk management solutions that meet industry-specific compliance and security requirements.

 

By using AWS, Vestel Elektronik is reducing its IT management burden and has created more time for innovation. Vestel is a Turkey-based home and professional appliances group with subsidiaries spanning a number of markets, including manufacturing, software, and research and development. Its Vestel Smart TV portal—which allows customers to stream live content via the internet—runs on Amazon AWS.  

VIDCOIN is a startup competing in the fast-growing ad tech business in France. The company wanted a solution that could offer faster ingestion of user data and better insights into end user activities. It turned to AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner Corexpert, which created a solution using Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Lambda along with a Kibana-based dashboard to capture and analyze millions of events daily.