Category: Analytics

This post is co-written with Rebecca Nissan, Sr. Delivery Solutions Engineer, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Field Engineering, Databricks. In today’s healthcare data-centric landscape, organizations face challenges (such as disparate data silos) across their electronic health records (EHRs), medical imaging, and other on-premises data warehouses. Healthcare data is growing at such a rapid rate that one […]

Generative AI is already reshaping the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) industry. From AstraZeneca and Pfizer to 3M and the Allen Institute, innovators are using AI to accelerate drug discovery, boost scientist productivity, and streamline clinical workflows. As adoption grows, so does the need for models tailored to HCLS-specific challenges—from medical text summarization to DICOM […]

In the rapidly evolving world of Healthcare and Life Sciences, real-world data (RWD) has become a powerful catalyst for innovation. Sourced from electronic health records, insurance claims, registries, and even wearable devices, RWD offers a window into how therapies perform in everyday clinical settings. When analyzed effectively, it leads to real-world evidence (RWE)—the clinical insights […]

The retail industry faces an increasingly complex returns challenge that impacts both operational efficiency and bottom-line profitability. With online return rates averaging 15.2 percent – triple the rate of in-store purchases – and returns accounting for $743 billion in lost sales in the US alone last year, retailers need innovative solutions to address this growing […]

Introduction At MWC 2025, AWS announced the preview of a new AWS Outposts racks offering for high-throughput, network-intensive workloads. We are pleased to announce that this offering is now generally available as part of the second-generation Outposts racks launch. With this launch, Outposts empowers communication service providers (CSPs) to accelerate modernization of their on-premises telecom […]

Introduction Each year, hundreds of thousands of children across America receive critical care. For these young patients, brain injury poses a serious risk that can lead to long-term health complications. Now, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop an innovative solution that […]

Physical retailing – driving 80 percent of all US sales – is undergoing a “Renaissance”; a modernization revolution focused on transforming both shopper experience and operations. To achieve this, stores are re-investing heavily in technology, from point-of-sale systems and inventory management to IoT devices and computer vision solutions. Yet these investments often create what IDC […]

Introduction In today’s fast-paced financial markets, the sheer volume and velocity of news pose significant challenges for investors, traders, and financial institutions. The ability to quickly process, analyze, and act on relevant information can mean the difference between seizing opportunities and falling behind. This blog post introduces an innovative solution that leverages Amazon Bedrock to […]

With physical stores still accounting for 80 percent of sales, the pressure to optimize in-store operations has never been more intense. The rise of ecommerce hasn’t just changed shopping habits—it’s created an urgent need for physical stores to deliver smarter, more efficient store experiences while reducing their technology footprint. Physical store companies commonly face the […]

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are evolving into distributed inference pipelines, where models run across multiple tiers, from device edge to AWS, to optimize latency, bandwidth, and privacy. Instead of sending all raw data to AWS, collaborative AI inference can occur at the device, far edge, near edge (often a 5G Multi-access Edge Computing site […]