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Prakash Janakiraman, cofounder and chief technology officer at Nextdoor, describes how Nextdoor’s engineering teams achieved an almost 10x improvement in build and deployment times using Amazon EC2 Elastic Container Service (ECS). Nextdoor is a rapidly growing private social network that connects people with their neighbors. The company runs the Nextdoor website and a data analytics solution on AWS, powering more than 135,000 neighborhoods across the United States.
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Online content provider Netflix can support seamless global service by using AWS. Learn more »
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Matson Case Study
Matson moved its applications from its on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud and is benefiting from faster performance, increased reliability and security, and IT infrastructure cost savings of at least 50 percent Founded in 1882, Matson is a leading U.S. shipping carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Matson is all in on AWS, moving its critical shipping and logistics businesses to AWS for increased performance, reliability, and security. Matson uses AWS for IT that enables fast analytics and precise tracking of assets and shipments as they move around the world.
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Vivino Case Study
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.
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Pacific Inter-Link Group Case Study
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.
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Jumplife Case Study
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.
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IGS Case Study
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.
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Fourdesire Case Study
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.
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innogy Czech Case Study
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.
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