Vancouver International Airport’s (YVR) Innovative Travel Solutions team uses AWS to provide high availability and security for its BORDERXPRESS Automated Passport Control solution and to easily scale the solution to accommodate expansion to new airports. YVR, one of the world’s busiest airports, is served by 55 airlines. The organization runs the solution on AWS, using multiple AWS Availability Zones for redundancy and taking advantage of AWS CloudFormation templates to refresh virtual servers and test images before sending them to production.

By running its geospatial data platform on AWS, Monsanto quickly scales to meet growth, provisions compute and storage in seconds, and sets up development and test environments in minutes instead of months. Monsanto provides agricultural products that support farmers and other customers throughout the world. The company uses Amazon Elastic File System to support its geospatial data and analytics solution.

The Azim Premji Foundation works to improve education in India. The not-for-profit foundation works in 45 of India’s least developed districts. The Bangalore-based company uses the AWS Cloud to run all of its operations, including its database, application software, compute, and networking. By using AWS, Azim Premji Foundation is confident that it can double its user base to 10,000 people within the next few years.

Wiley is using AWS to give developers self-service capabilities, launch new applications in minutes instead of weeks, and enable the creation of new digital publishing platforms.  The largest publisher on behalf of scholarly societies, Wiley publishes peer-reviewed scholarly research across many disciplines including science, technology, and social sciences.  The company uses AWS and AWS Service Catalog to enable next-generation publishing platforms to accelerate its growth in scholarly publishing.

Running employee, contractor, and customer tracking services on AWS enables Kopi Incorporation to achieve 99.999 percent infrastructure availability. This allows clients to analyze and obtain insights that inform decisions such as where retail displays should be located to maximize sales and revenue.  Kopi Incorporation provides employee, contractor, and customer tracking services to clients in industries such as retail and security. The business uses Amazon EC2 to run a Redis data store and its management and basic analytics applications.

eWATER, a London-based startup organization, needed help to implement a solution for delivering clean water to impoverished communities in developing nations. It turned to Eseye, an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network, for an IoT-based solution running in the AWS Cloud that includes a simple payment system for tap water and continuous monitoring of water systems in rural villages, which gives residents easy, affordable access to clean water.

Yuanta Securities Korea is realizing increased speeds and lower costs by running their financial models on AWS to assess market risk and make trading decisions. According to Dr. Jeong Ho Chu, the organization is able to run financial market scenarios at four-fold faster speeds and is saving money using AWS. Yuanta is currently experimenting with AWS in areas such as sales, engineering, and training. Watch the video to learn more.

Sequence Bio uses AWS to host its data platform it uses to analyze large amounts of genetic data. Sequence Bio is a Newfoundland and Labrador biotechnology company striving to improve how it treats diseases and develops medicine. The company uses AWS to compute genetic data to help identify patterns across disease and genetic groups used in drug discovery.