All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

AWS 136

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report.

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