Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Backtesting plays a critical role in algorithmic trading. Firms leverage XGBoost for backtesting to build predictive models that forecast market movements based on historical data. Training XGBoost models is computationally expensive though, and can quickly become a bottleneck, especially when working with large historical datasets. This blog post shows how quantitative trading firms distribute XGBoost […]

Introduction Seismic processing is a high-performance computing workflow to enhance, image, and understand subsurface structure. Modern high density 3D seismic data acquisition methods need 10-100 times more compute power for processing and imaging as compared to previous generation seismic acquisition methods. In return, geologists get improved geological resolution details such as thin beds, subtle faults, […]

Introduction At MWC 2025, AWS announced the preview of a new AWS Outposts racks offering for high-throughput, network-intensive workloads. We are pleased to announce that this offering is now generally available as part of the second-generation Outposts racks launch. With this launch, Outposts empowers communication service providers (CSPs) to accelerate modernization of their on-premises telecom […]

Overview Cloud solutions for enterprise applications are focused on creating a virtualized infrastructure to enable the management of various functions necessary to deliver services. With cloud computing, these functions become decoupled from the hardware and are operated from a horizontal platform as cloud-native or virtual functions. This is a unified and standardized platform that supports […]

In today’s digital-first world, streamlining the customer onboarding journey in retail banking is crucial for business growth and customer acquisition. Banks understand the need to shift their focus from product-centric to customer-centric origination. By prioritizing the customers’ needs and preferences throughout the digital onboarding process, banks can create a foundation for stronger relationships, cross-selling opportunities, […]

“Using AWS FIS has been a transformative journey for BMW Group, and we are committed to scaling chaos engineering across our organization to ensure the highest levels of reliability and resilience for our digital services.” – Dr. Céline Laurent-Winter, BMW Group Vice President Connected Vehicle Platforms Introduction Ensuring resilience and reliability in mission-critical software systems […]

Packet acceleration is a key component in achieving performance efficiency for your workloads. Packet acceleration lets you optimize your workloads to get maximum throughput, high network bandwidth, minimal latency, and reduced cost. Industries such as Telco, Media & Entertainment, Robotics, and Internet of Things (IOT) have been key users of packet acceleration using SRIOV (Single Root […]