Vivino used the AWS Cloud to build the most downloaded wine app in the world, attracting 22 million users across the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia. The app gives wine lovers easy access to a database of more than 10.3 million wines and to related information such as ratings, reviews, and where to buy. The company ensures it has the capacity to handle traffic increases of 300 percent between Christmas and New Year’s using Auto Scaling with Amazon EC2, and it uses Amazon SES and Amazon SNS to drive wine promotions to millions of users in seconds.

Using AWS, Pacific Inter-Link Group (PIL Group) reduces the TCO for its SAP environment by 70 percent and expects to save $650,000 in hardware expenses in the first three years of migrating to the cloud. PIL Group manufactures, trades, and markets palm-oil-related products, and provides logistics services around the world. The company now runs its SAP systems on Amazon EC2 instances operating in Amazon VPC environments across multiple Availability Zones. All of the company’s daily and weekly backups are held in Amazon S3 buckets.  

By using AWS, Taiwan-based Jumplife supports a 150 percent increase in visitors to its e-commerce platform and achieves a five-time increase in performance on its database service. Jumplife operates Gamadian—an app-based virtual shopping mall dedicated to snack foods. The company built the e-commerce platform behind Gamadian with Amazon EC2 instances supporting web and application services, Amazon RDS for Aurora delivering additional database performance, and Amazon S3 providing a repository for product images.

IGS develops online and mobile games 50 percent faster and increases IT productivity by 800 percent with AWS. The company is a provider of arcade-based games and has a growing online and mobile gaming business. IGS runs its online games on multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon CloudFront ensuring maximum performance and content delivery.

Fourdesire successfully maintains business growth of 500 percent in two years with the support of AWS. The company builds online games that are informative and interactive, promoting better health and environmental awareness. Fourdesire uses AWS Elastic Compute Cloud instances to run its game code as well as Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing to direct and distribute incoming gaming traffic. To boost the gaming experience, it has in-memory Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon CloudFront to maximize data transfer speeds across the web.

innogy Czech uses AWS to support critical SAP systems, speed software deployments, provision new systems in weeks instead of months, and recruit and retain new talent. The utilities company provides gas, electricity, and other services to 1.6 million customers across the Czech Republic. innogy Czech runs its SAP systems on the AWS Cloud.

Zendesk uses the AWS Cloud to cut costs by more than 60 percent, increase data retention by 200 percent, and easily scale its internal data-logging solution. The San Francisco, California, organization provides a cloud-based customer support platform to organizations across the globe. Zendesk runs its primary platform and an internal data- logging solution on AWS, taking advantage of multiple Amazon EBS volume types for better performance and lower costs.

Using AWS, Instapage increased customer in-app activity by 10 percent, enabled marketing and customer success with powerful on-demand reporting, and identified a billing error that will save the company tens of thousands of dollars. The company offers a software-as-a-service solution to build and optimize landing pages for advertising campaigns. Instapage’s data team implemented Amazon Redshift—alongside various analytics tools—to aggregate, warehouse, and synthesize data on a 2 TB cluster.  

Using AWS, the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute processed 20,000 cancer samples in days instead of months, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and powering innovative new research. The Institute—which was founded to lead UC Santa Cruz’s efforts to unlock the world’s genomic data—analyzes computational genomics, cancer genomics, and other genomic data. The organization runs its scientific-workflow software solution—called Toil—on the AWS Cloud.