AWS Cloud : Companies getting benefited
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
Companies using Amazon Web Services :
Netflix : uses AWS for nearly all its computing and storage needs, including analytics, recommendation engines, video trans-coding, and more.
F1 : uses Amazon SageMaker to build machine learning models that help fans better understand the split-second decisions made by a driver or pit crew.
CET : is providing remote learning for millions of students in Israel through its live streaming solution built on AWS.
iFlix : signs up 1 million customers in just seven months using AWS.
FINRA : collects and analyzes billions of brokerage transactions daily with AWS.
Intuit :Using Amazon SageMaker, Intuit cuts the time to deploy machine-learning models by 90 percent.
Intuit on AWS
Intuit Mint Reduces Operational Costs by 25% Using AWS
Mint.com was originally hosted in an internal data center, but the team needed to improve its ability to scale up or down to meet peak traffic demands. “We see a minimum 200 percent increase in website traffic immediately after January 1 each year,” says Sean McCluskey, director of application development and cloud operations for Intuit. “We wanted to be able to scale up for that peak load automatically without spending a lot of time and money acquiring and provisioning new servers every time.”
Intuit Moves Tax Application to AWS, Avoids Paying for Capacity During 95% of the Year
When the lease for the on-premises environment running its TurboTax AnswerXchange application was due, the enterprise decided to move the application to AWS. As a result, Intuit was able to reduce costs by a factor of six because it no longer had to maintain idle servers for an application that was only active during tax season. After this first success, Intuit subsequently moved 33 applications, 26 services and eight enabling tools to the AWS Cloud. Over the coming years, Intuit will move the rest of its applications to AWS to speed development, innovate faster, and better solve customers’ needs.
Intuit’s Near Real-time Fraud Detection Using Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models, at scale. This session will introduce you the features of Amazon SageMaker, including a one-click training environment, highly-optimized machine learning algorithms with built-in model tuning, and deployment without engineering effort. With zero-setup required, Amazon SageMaker significantly decreases your training time and overall cost of building production machine learning systems.
Intuit Built a Frictionless Infrastructure Management
Using AWS CloudFormation, Intuit effectively deployed infrastructure as code, allowing different teams to coordinate in an easy, frictionless way. Jerome Kuptz, principal software engineer at Intuit, discussed the company’s solution at re : Invent 2017.
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