Shaadi.com migrated from a private hosted cloud to AWS so it could focus on its core business, reduce costs, and gain the agility to develop better user experiences faster. Shaadi.com is one of the world’s largest online matchmaking services, helping people around the world meet their life partners through a curated database of verified profiles.The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 as a foundation for its services, relies on Amazon ElastiCache for in-memory storage, and adopted Amazon Rekognition for automated profile-picture management. 

Using AWS, Satispay created an agile infrastructure that has supported a 6,500 percent growth in the company’s user base across Italy. Satispay offers a new service that makes everyday payments between people and businesses simple and secure, all via a mobile phone. The company worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner beSharp, using Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to seamlessly scale its cloud up or down to suit developer and user needs.

Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) reduces analytical reporting time from 30 minutes to a few minutes, increases processing speeds fivefold, and ensures high availability and scalability by running key SAP systems on AWS. The company is the world’s fifth-largest Coca-Cola bottler and serves more than 380 million consumers globally. CCI migrated its on-premises SAP Business Warehouse system to SAP HANA on AWS, where it seamlessly integrates with the company’s SAP ECC system that was already running on AWS.  

By using AWS, Modacruz can handle spikes in traffic of 20,000 users in 30 minutes, while increasing server capacity by 150 percent. The startup’s customers can purchase second-hand designer clothing at affordable prices through its website and mobile app. Modacruz uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy apps across a multi-language development environment and Amazon Redshift to collect and manage its user data.

PG&E is using the breadth and depth of AWS services to drive its enterprise migration from legacy IT infrastructure to a cloud-first environment. For more than 150 years, PG&E has provided utility services to millions of customers in Northern and Central California. In addition to using dozens of AWS services including Amazon Aurora, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Glacier, PG&E also uses the AWS Partner Network to speed its journey to the cloud. John Nichols, director of enterprise architecture at PG&E, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2017.

Using AWS, Autodesk can scale the use of generative design to run hundreds of simulations in one hour instead of several hours or days. Autodesk develops software for the engineering, design, and entertainment industries. Using services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Autodesk can focus on developing its machine-learning tools instead of managing infrastructure. Brian Mathews, VP of platform engineering at Autodesk, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2017.

Using AWS, Digital Foodie helps retailers satisfy the growing demand for online grocery shopping, while reducing infrastructure costs by up to 30 percent. Its customizable e-commerce platform enables retailers to sell products online and operate services such as click-and-collect, home delivery, and drop shipping. Digital Foodie has created a scalable, reliable architecture using services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

As a result of running its services on AWS, Travelex has been able to fast-track the introduction of new money-transfer products to market and streamline customer onboarding. Travelex—an independent foreign-exchange and money-transfer specialist, with presence in 30 countries—is a trusted, innovative, and responsive partner for financial institutions moving large sums of money around the world. Travelex is using AWS services including Amazon ECS, AWS CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Elastic Load Balancing to launch some of its latest products.