Transforming Retail in the Cloud: A CIO’s Handbook
How can retailers mobilize their technological resources to capture emerging growth opportunities while competing in a rapidly changing market landscape. In this ebook, you will learn about a powerful new IT paradigm for retail—a Cloud Services Technology Framework.
Migrate expensive on-premise applications to the cloud, optimize costs, and innovate new IT solutions.
Retailers are looking to the cloud to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting of IT, and allow them to focus on delivering innovations to their customers. AWS and our partners help thousands of retailers adopt modern, cloud-based IT solutions; reducing time-to-market, improving security, and most importantly, facilitating business agility.
Benefits
Increase business agility
Innovate faster and scale when needed. AWS offers the broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, analytics, IoT, and security.
Lower costs
AWS allows retailers to take advantage of the widest array of compute, storage, database, and analytics capabilities to optimize performance, innovate faster, and drive down operating costs of workloads.
IT automation
AWS provides many tools to automate IT like CI/CD processes, cloud formation templates, monitoring and alerting of cloud components, and security audits to make retailers more efficient and effective.
Enhanced security
Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS customer, you benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.
Redefine IT
Retail leadership may sometimes believe that IT is too slow or costly to meet the latest competitive threats and market demands in one of the world’s toughest industries. Our purpose-built solution and services will help your business successfully tackle these growing challenges.
Featured solutions
SAP HANA
Accelerate transactional processing, operational reporting, OLAP, predictive and text analysis streamlining both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) processing.
AWS services
Additional solutions
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built AWS Partner solutions for the IT and Core Applications on AWS through AWS Partner Network Retail Competency and AWS Marketplace.
New Relic helps eCommerce site operators reduce risk of unexpected downtime, manage and prepare for bursting traffic and deliver insights to online visitors’ true experience when shopping online.
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Scalefast is a headless, API-first eCommerce platform that allows brands to drive innovation in its online and international channels.
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Infor builds cloud-based industry-specific business software that enables growth, reduces risk and supports global ambitions for leading organizations in every industry.
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SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition.
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Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, bringing together data from servers, databases, tools and services to present a unified view of your entire stack.
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The only agentless solution that provides distributed, automated tracing of every request in a transaction, Epsagon allows users to monitor and troubleshoot issues in microservice environments.
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AWS Service Partners
Our network of AWS Service Partners offers strategy and deployment services to retail brands to accelerate digital transformation and innovation.
Accenture is a global professional services company that helps companies by innovating around industry-specific functions and capabilities to provide clients with speed-to-value.
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Deloitte retail technology helps to mobilize data and insights to optimize customer experiences, create operational efficiencies, improve product pricing, and inform management decisions.
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Backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world’s top technology providers, Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation.
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PwC delivers a breadth of experience, industry knowledge and a global network of resources to guide customers through cloud transformation that help drive agility and strategic impact.
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AWS Marketplace
Retail solutions from AWS Partners are also available on
AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.
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