AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Industries
How Swiss Life Germany automated data governance and collaboration with Amazon SageMaker
Swiss Life Germany, a leading provider of customized pension products with over 100 years of experience, recently transitioned from legacy on-premises infrastructure to a modern cloud architecture. To enable secure data sharing and cross-departmental collaboration in this regulated environment, they implemented Amazon SageMaker with a custom Terraform pattern. This post demonstrates how Swiss Life Germany aligned SageMaker’s agility with their rigorous infrastructure as code standards, providing a blueprint for platform engineers and data architects in highly regulated enterprises.
Verisk cuts processing time and storage costs with Amazon Redshift and lakehouse
Verisk, a catastrophe modeling SaaS provider serving insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide, cut processing time from hours to minutes-level aggregations while reducing storage costs by implementing a lakehouse architecture with Amazon Redshift and Apache Iceberg. If you’re managing billions of catastrophe modeling records across hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires, this approach eliminates the traditional compute-versus-cost trade-off by separating storage from processing power. In this post, we examine Verisk’s lakehouse implementation, focusing on four architectural decisions that delivered measurable improvements.
Modernize game intelligence with generative AI on Amazon Redshift
In this post, we discuss how you can use Amazon Redshift as a knowledge base to provide additional context to your LLM. We share best practices and explain how you can improve the accuracy of responses from the knowledge base by following these best practices.
Breaking down data silos: Volkswagen’s approach with Amazon DataZone
In this post, we introduce Amazon DataZone and explore how Volkswagen used Amazon DataZone to build their data mesh, tackle the challenges encountered, and break the data silos.
Announcing SageMaker Unified Studio Workshops for Financial Services
In this post, we’re excited to announce the release of four Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio publicly available workshops that are specific to each FSI segment: insurance, banking, capital markets, and payments. These workshops can help you learn how to deploy Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio effectively for business use cases.
Integrate scientific data management and analytics with the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, Part 1
In this blog post, AWS introduces a solution to a common challenge in scientific research – the inefficient management of fragmented scientific data. The post demonstrates how the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, through its Unified Studio and Catalog features, helps scientists streamline their workflow by integrating data management and analytics capabilities.
Develop and deploy a generative AI application using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Bedrock Flows in SageMaker Unified Studio to build a sophisticated generative AI application for financial analysis and investment decision-making.
Near real-time baggage operational insights for airlines using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
This post explores a framework developed by IBM to modernize baggage analytics using AWS managed services like Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, DynamoDB Streams, and other AWS services within a serverless architecture. The solution enables near real-time baggage operational insights for airlines, delivering cost savings, enhanced scalability, and improved performance while providing better security and operational efficiency to meet evolving airline needs.
Powering global payout intelligence: How MassPay uses Amazon Redshift Serverless and zero-ETL to drive deeper analytics.
In this blog post we shall cover how understanding real-time payout performance, identifying customer behavior patterns across regions, and optimizing internal operations required more than traditional business intelligence and analytics tools. And how since implementing Amazon Redshift and Zero-ETL, MassPay has seen 90% reduction in data availability latency, payments data available for analytics 1.5x faster, leading to 45% reduction in time-to-insight and 37% fewer support tickets related to transaction visibility and payment inquiries.
Amazon Prime Video advances search for sports using Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, we will walk you through how Prime Video used Amazon OpenSearch Service and its AI and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities to build a more intuitive and enhanced sports search experience.









