Building its AI- and AR-enabled beauty platform on AWS has allowed Perfect Corp. to scale its business to 67 countries in three years and exceed its 99.58% service availability target. Perfect Corp. is a beauty SaaS vendor in Taiwan offering a platform for global beauty businesses and customers that allows them to virtually try on makeup online, in-store, or through a mobile app. The company is using Amazon EMR to process big data and analyze logs, Amazon RDS to store customer data, and Amazon GuardDuty to monitor for security threats.

Green energy company Ørsted created its own software startup, Obviux, built entirely in the cloud. Obviux builds streamlined billing software for the energy sector. The company relies on Amazon RDS for MySQL to manage the Amazon Aurora database it uses to store data from more than 1 million customers and 1.2 million smart meters.

RADICA can launch campaigns much faster for global brands targeting Chinese consumers now that its multichannel electronic direct-mail platform RiMANGGIS is running on AWS. Headquartered in Hong Kong, RADICA provides digital marketing solutions to around 300 businesses. RADICA’s RiMANGGIS platform manages large-scale email, mobile, and social media activities targeting consumers in China and uses AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Route 53, is now more agile and simple to manage.  

Numerate uses AWS to model tens of billions of molecules, discover drug candidates five times faster, and reduce costs by seven-eighths. The organization uses AI and ML technologies to transform drug discovery by running its ML platform on AWS and using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to drive down costs.

Using AWS Marketplace, BiiLabs has reduced sales overheads for its blockchain Alfred API service by 50 percent. BiiLabs creates trusted network infrastructures using blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The company uses Amazon EC2 and AMI to run the Alfred API with AWS API Gateway and AWS IAM to manage access.

Al Tayer Group relies on AWS to scale to meet 50 percent web traffic growth, reduce operational costs by 79 percent, and focus on development instead of infrastructure management. The organization is a privately held holding company with operations in six countries in the Middle East. Al Tayer Group runs four e-commerce websites and a website platform on AWS, taking advantage of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs.

AWS Support helps Skyscanner to ensure it has the right balance for its for its large volume of EC2 instances (reserved, on-demand, and spot) to make sure its business is optimized for both performance and cost.

Machine learning is increasingly used to support therapeutic discovery at biotech companies. Third Rock Ventures is a venture firm that builds and launches biotech companies that accelerate scientific discoveries and transform patient lives. Dozens of Third Rock portfolio companies make use of AWS services to support their infrastructure, data science, bioinformatics, and machine-learning initiatives. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) along with flexible storage modalities such as Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) empower teams to aggregate complex, semi-structured datasets. Amazon SageMaker notebooks provide a cloud solution for reproducible, easy to implement data science workflows. Similarly, Amazon Comprehend Medical makes it easy to structure medical text data, which enables biotech companies to better collaborate with clinical partners and identify opportunities to serve patients