AWS for Industries

Many retail customers depend on successful peak events to drive significant revenue. Peak events include promotional sales days like Amazon Prime Day, holiday sales, and the globally recognized Black Friday-Cyber Monday period. According to the National Retail Federation, in 2023, a record 200.4 million consumers shopped over the five-day holiday weekend from Thanksgiving Day through […]

Backtesting plays a critical role in algorithmic trading. Firms leverage XGBoost for backtesting to build predictive models that forecast market movements based on historical data. Training XGBoost models is computationally expensive though, and can quickly become a bottleneck, especially when working with large historical datasets. This blog post shows how quantitative trading firms distribute XGBoost […]

Introduction: data modernization challenges and on-premises solutions in the power industry In the power industry, modernizing data infrastructure is especially challenging due to strict cybersecurity mandates, data residency rules, and the need for real-time reliability. Furthermore, energy systems are inherently hybrid. They rely on a distributed patchwork of OEMs, protocols, and on-premises infrastructure, often in […]

On May 6, more than 1,000 leaders from over 400 life sciences organizations convened in New York City for the seventh annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Life Sciences Symposium. Centered on the theme “Building for Breakthroughs: AI-powered Innovations Transforming the Pharmaceutical Value Chain,” the event featured 26 sessions with 39 expert speakers, all focused on […]

The science is clear. Significant carbon emission reductions are needed to avoid the most severe effects of climate change, restore biodiversity, protect vulnerable communities, and make sure of a habitable planet for future generations. Amazon founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, and since then we have made strides toward our goal of reaching net zero […]

On May 6, more than 1,000 life sciences leaders from over 400 organizations gathered in New York City for the seventh annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Life Sciences Symposium. Centered on the theme “Building for Breakthroughs: AI-powered Innovations Transforming the Pharmaceutical Value Chain,” the event featured 26 sessions led by 39 experts—offering an unfiltered look […]

On May 6, more than 1,000 life sciences leaders from over 400 organizations convened in New York City for the seventh Annual AWS Life Sciences Symposium. United under the theme, “Building for Breakthroughs – AI-powered Innovations Transforming the Pharmaceutical Value Chain,” the event showcased how generative AI has moved beyond its hype to become a […]

Opportunities for telecoms with small language models (SLMs) explored how telecom operators can use SLMs deployed on Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to enable autonomous environments and handle routine information requests. Subsequently, in Distributed inference with collaborative AI agents for telco-powered smart-X, we further explored the spectrum of distributed computing locations […]

Healthcare organizations are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance patient experiences, boost developer productivity, and streamline processes. The advent of Generative AI (Gen AI) has opened up a world of possibilities, allowing healthcare providers to harness the power of advanced language models and unlock new realms of efficiency and innovation. Amazon Q, available as Amazon […]

Introduction Mastercard’s AI-powered real-time fraud prevention platform, Brighterion, has been delivering advanced fraud detection and risk management solutions to enterprise customers for over 20 years. Trusted by more than 2,000 clients worldwide, including 74 of the top 100 U.S. banks, Mastercard’s Brighterion AI platform scores over 150 billion transactions annually, helping organizations prevent fraud while […]