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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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, powered by Intel Xeon processors, to carefully manage its costs. It also leverages AWS for hybrid scenarios for particular workloads.

iCHEF has reduced its IT management overhead by 13 percent using AWS, while also bringing down its overall IT costs to just 7 percent of the monthly fee it charges customers to use its point-of-sale (POS) service. iCHEF provides a POS service for restaurants across Southeast Asia, where employees use the app’s interface through Apple iPads. The company runs the backend infrastructure supporting the POS on the AWS Cloud, using Amazon EC2 instances for compute, Amazon RDS for transactional database services, and AWS Lambda to run daily data integrations for customers with multiple establishments.

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.