Category: Case Study

Take an in-depth view of the cloud migration and data platform modernization process for Flipboard, which engaged Mactores Cognition for a thorough assessment of the self-managed platform and help migrating existing data workloads to a fully managed Amazon EMR serverless big data platform. The process streamlined Flipboard’s distributed database capabilities, allowing the social media platform to support user spikes at scale, maximize throughput performance, and prepare to expand the user base exponentially.

Explore a migration where Vix Technology partnered with AWS ProServe and Stromasys, an AWS Migration and Modernization Competency Partner, to successfully migrating over 100 applications, including both x86 and SUN SPARC Solaris mission-critical workloads within nine months before a data center contract renewal with near-zero customer impact. Vix’s key business drivers for migration were to move to a more secure, cost effective, and resilient environment.

Large enterprise customers depend heavily on commercial off the shelf (COTS) products for scheduling jobs or running batch jobs, but these COTS products are often not cloud-native which prevents them from taking advantage of the various cloud services. Learn how Resolution Life US collaborated with Cognizant and AWS to modernize its on-premises third-party enterprise job scheduler with an event-driven custom scheduler solution using Amazon FSx, AWS Step Functions, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Lambda.

Like many of today’s leading media and streaming platforms, PBS wanted to take its overall user experience to the next level. That’s why PBS approached AWS Premier Tier Consulting Partner ClearScale, a leader in machine learning. ClearScale came up with a detailed roadmap for tackling PBS’s recommendation system project that included data operations, MLOps, and demonstrational user interface. Together, PBS and ClearScale decided to move forward with an AWS-powered solution on top of Amazon Personalize.

To meet compliance like PCI-DSS, SOC2, and HIPAA, a customer typically has to change their architecture and workload, which can take significant time, money, and effort. With Very Good Security (VGS), customers retain full control over their data while offloading information security burdens, transferring the risk of a data breach, and fast-tracking compliance. VGS acts as a secure layer between your company and sensitive data.

Watch Brasil is a provider of streaming services for 400 internet service providers (ISPs) in Brazil. Learn how Watch Brasil grew its subscriber base to 500,000 and reduced piracy to zero after launching a next-generation streaming television service powered by Kaltura. Within the first 6 months after launching the streaming service, Watch Brasil was streaming a wide array of content, including news, general entertainment, comedy and drama series, and sports.

Superior Integrated Systems (SIS), an integrator of custom-built test equipment and data acquisition systems, launched new services during the pandemic to help their customers satisfy specific product test requirements. Learn how AllCloud supported SIS to build a proof of concept, developing the architecture for the desired data-as-a service platform using AWS Control Tower and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).

For the leaders at Gamestar+, game night is more than a leisure activity—it’s an avenue to improved social collaboration. Learn how Gamestar+ engaged AWS Partner Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) to to deliver live social game experiences on demand to any device that uses a streaming service. With few high-quality social game solutions in the marketplace, Gamestar+ sought to create its own offering on AWS with help from IMT.

For leading esports organization EGL, speed, reliability, and flexibility are essential within their platform to provide a world-class user experience and evolve with future esports trends and video games. When EGL needed to create a next-generation platform, they turned to UK consultancy Code Wizards and AWS for help. The new platform allows EGL to embrace new modes of play and extend the solution directly into mobile games on a large scale.

The State of Utah’s Office of Recovery Services has successfully moved a 25-years-old mainframe application to AWS GovCloud (US)—in budget and on time—using mainframe modernization capabilities from Deloitte and AWS. The story behind this effort shows how beneficial such a move can be, from a day-to-day perspective and from a strategic perspective. It demonstrates that a high degree of automation and standardization makes this a riskless approach for getting rid of legacy technology such as COBOL and VSAM.