Reach moved its disaster-recovery solution to the AWS Cloud using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS Marketplace, achieving greater reliability at lower cost. Reach is the largest newspaper publisher in the United Kingdwom and has more than 70 websites serving more than 110 million unique visitors per month. For disaster recovery, the company uses Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS for storage and AWS CloudFormation for reliable, repeatable, automated provisioning.

By using AWS to build a data lake, zipMoney can gather unique customer insights that vastly improve its underwriting process, pushing the boundaries of analytics with artificial intelligence and machine learning. zipMoney is an Australian fintech startup offering instantaneous, virtual lines of credit to consumers upon checkout at stores or on e-commerce sites. The firm relies on Amazon EMR and Amazon Elasticsearch Service to process and query vast amounts of data, Amazon S3 buckets to store such data, and Amazon DynamoDB to support its applications with low latency.

Guardian News & Media (GNM) uses AWS to ensure on-time newspaper delivery by orchestrating workflows between multiple distributed systems, and to give developers more flexibility. The global media company publishes the Guardian and the Observer newspapers and manages other media brands. GNM relies on AWS Step Functions to automate key business workflows.

Using AWS has enabled Square Enix to reduce the time it takes to process video-game screenshots during traffic spikes from several hours to a little over 10 seconds, all while cutting costs to five percent of those of an on-premises solution. Square Enix is a producer of creative and innovative content and services in the fields of gaming and entertainment. Shifting image processing from an in-house environment to a cloud environment using AWS Lambda enabled faster processing while integrating the existing on-premises environment.

US-based Schumacher Group provides emergency medical physicians to more than 200 hospitals. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its business intelligence (BI) environment helps Schumacher ensure that patient data is fully encrypted with the appropriate levels of control and access granted.

Ricoh Company, Ltd., switched from a global information sharing system that used Microsoft SharePoint to AWS in order to cut cost. The company adopted AWS because of its reliability and proven track record at eneterprise-level corporations. AWS offers a dramatic reduction in cost and shortens the amount of time it takes for introduction.

RecoChoku adopted Amazon Aurora as the database for its membership system that manages customer information, resulting in a database system that provides high reliability and availability for managing customer information, which is a crucial part of business. Starting with Chaku-Uta, RecoChoku has been a driving force among music streaming services in Japan. With the migration of the membership database complete, all core systems have been moved to AWS and migration of all other systems is scheduled to finish in March 2017.

By adopting AWS for its Super Mario Run environment, Nintendo was able to release the game worldwide in only two months versus four to five months with the setup of an on-premises infrastructure, while also supporting an expected 150 million downloads for iOS and Android. Nintendo Co., Ltd. started working with DeNA Co., Ltd. in March 2016, which led to its mobile app releases. The company aims to attract new customers and grow its business through mobile games, which are now popular worldwide, and the resulting synergies with game consoles. With Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon S3, the companies provide an easy and relaxed game environment for customers worldwide. Amazon CloudWatch and IAM also support the seamless collaboration between the two companies.