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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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Isentia Case Study
Using AWS, Isentia has increased the performance of two of its communication services by 25 percent and 40 percent, respectively, while helping IT staff be more innovative. Isentia provides media intelligence and analysis to thousands of companies, including leading global brands. To deliver intelligence faster to clients, Isentia built a data pipeline on AWS that features services including Amazon Kinesis for gathering social-media events from across the globe, AWS Lambda for initial data processing, and Amazon EMR to complete processing activities and store massive amounts of data.
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MiHIN Case Study
The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) uses AWS to process more than 12 million patient health information messages weekly, keep pace with 20 percent growth in demand for new services, and build and test new features in days rather than months. MiHIN enables the exchange of health information throughout the state of Michigan. The company’s network is used by Michigan healthcare providers and payers to securely share patient information. MiHIN is all-in on AWS, running its health-information network in the AWS Cloud.
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APUS Case Study
APUS runs its complete app system and has reached 99.99% availability using AWS. APUS is a global startup company dedicated to providing the best mobile internet products and experiences for smartphone users. The company uses AWS products including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Route 53. As of the end of 2016, APUS boasts more than one billion global users.
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Instapage Case Study
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.
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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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