By using AWS Database Migration Service to migrate from an on-premesis Oracle RAC environment to Amazon Aurora, MAGASeek Corporation saw performance for some batch jobs triple, and was able to complete the migration with a team of only two people. MAGASeek Corporation runs a fashion e-commerce website as well as an e-commerce solutions business for apparel makers that offers e-commerce site support for every stage from construction to operation. By using Amazon Aurora, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon CloudWatch, the company also reduced its operational burden, freeing up more time for information-gathering and system optimization.

Zillow is the leading housing rental and real estate marketplace, used by tens of millions of home buyers, sellers, and renters. Zillow migrated its image-processing and delivery system to AWS to solve performance issues and gain scalability. As a result, the company improved user experience on its image-heavy websites, halved its content delivery network costs, and can now process more than 3 million images per day and serve up to 150,000 images per second.

PIX System migrated its data center to the AWS Cloud, improving performance by 30 percent and gaining instant scalability. The company’s remote collaboration and asset-sharing platform enables producers, directors, cast, and crew around the globe to collaborate effectively on TV and film productions. PIX System uses Amazon EBS to migrate files to Amazon S3 volumes for primary storage, and takes advantage of Amazon EC2 instances for video workflows, including automated media-processing workflows and content collaboration.

Using AWS, Alert Logic gains data protection and geographic redundancy, and reduces the cost of its footprint by more than 50 percent compared to an on-premises data center. Alert Logic is a cloud-security provider based in Houston, Texas. The company uses Amazon S3 to store and analyze data for its security-as-a-service solution.

GoPro containerized its microservices architecture for GoPro Plus using Amazon EC2 Container Service and Docker to increase server utilization, accelerate innovation, and improve scalability. GoPro Plus helps people share photos and videos of meaningful experiences with rugged, user-friendly cameras and related products and services. GoPro’s engineering team replaced a third-party process-management solution with Docker containers running on Amazon ECS, which simplified cluster management, ensured deployment consistency, and enabled the team to deliver features to customers faster.

Cathay Pacific Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines, has improved software-development speeds by 67 percent using AWS.   The airline flies to nearly 200 destinations in 49 countries and territories. Cathay Pacific Airways has boosted the performance of its business-critical website and enhanced development processes through web-application containerization on AWS. It uses Amazon EC2 instances to run its Red Hat OpenShift containerization platform, Amazon RDS for application and transactional data, and Amazon ElastiCache to enhance web-application speeds.

Nexon is a leading South Korean video game developer. The company uses AWS to build and distribute its games to an international audience as well as run its analytics platform. Nexon, which faces unpredictable volumes of users based on the popularity of game titles, uses AWS and works with APN Advanced Consulting Partner Megazone to avoid the high costs and IT resource planning challenges associated with on-premises systems.

Using AWS, Y-cam Solutions transformed itself from a hardware vendor into a service provider with a more valuable business model. Y-cam developed an artificial intelligence solution to deliver home-security monitoring and alerts, eliminating the need for a traditional network operations center. The company uses Amazon Polly to provide a human-sounding voice and Amazon Lambda to run code in response to events in a serverless architecture.