Using AWS, V-Count grew its revenue by 92 percent in the second half of 2017 by delivering cutting-edge retail analytics and people-counting products in a highly secure environment that keeps customer data safe. The company manufactures patented visitor-tracking devices and business-analytics tools to help its clients understand their customers’ behavior and maximize the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. Using the Amazon CloudWatch monitoring service, the V-Count team can spend less time on system administration and more time developing new products.  

Autodesk decreased turnaround time for new AWS accounts from two weeks to 10 minutes by building Tailor—a serverless, automated solution for “tailor-made” account creation—in the AWS Cloud. Autodesk sells software products for the architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Tailor uses multiple AWS services, including AWS Lambda for its compute processes, Amazon DynamoDB as its persistence layer, and Amazon API Gateway.

Miovision uses AWS to capture and analyze IoT data from thousands of connected devices at traffic intersections around the world. Through connected sensors and intelligent analytics, Miovision empowers more than 17,000 municipalities in 50 countries to be smarter, improving transportation capacity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and performance. The company uses AWS IoT to securely connect thousands of advanced sensors and cameras, builds innovative analytics on Amazon EC2 and other services, and provides open access to data via Amazon API Gateway.

Guardian News & Media (GNM) uses AWS to ensure on-time newspaper delivery by orchestrating workflows between multiple distributed systems, and to give developers more flexibility. The global media company publishes the Guardian and the Observer newspapers and manages other media brands. GNM relies on AWS Step Functions to automate key business workflows.

In just two years, GE Appliances shifted to a DevOps approach, adopted a cloud-only policy, and achieved total visibility into its hybrid infrastructure by using AWS Management Tools and other AWS solutions. The company has been making appliances for more than 125 years. GE Appliances uses Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config to gain total, real-time visibility into its hybrid infrastructure, automate response scenarios, and eliminate manual security processes.

Wyng adopted managed services and serverless computing from AWS to reduce complexity and increase scalability—while reducing its AWS spend by 40 percent. Wyng builds technology that powers digital campaigns and promotions for advertising agencies and brands. The company uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service to help clients capture and rapidly search social-media content, Amazon Aurora to store historical campaign data, and AWS Lambda to run serverless microservices.

Expedia takes advantage of the AWS global infrastructure to reduce network latency, improve time-to-market, and create a standardized platform that enables continuous innovation. Expedia is a leading online travel company for leisure and business travelers that maintains websites worldwide to offer localized content to customers.

Financial Engines is using AWS to reduce infrastructure costs by more than 90 percent and gain immense scalability. The largest independent investment advisor in the United States, Financial Engines offers technology-enabled portfolio-management services, financial planning, and investment guidance to more than nine million people nationwide. The firm runs its core computational engine on a serverless architecture using AWS Lambda. 

Euclid, based in Palo Alto, CA, collects and analyzes data to help brick-and-mortar retailers optimize their businesses. By running on AWS, Euclid can run complex queries on tens of terabytes of data in only two hours while reducing costs by nearly 90%.