Amazon EC2 customers

We can rely on AWS for best-in-class cloud computing power. AWS services, like Amazon EC2, enable our customers to innovate with enterprise scale, security, and reliability all over the world. By running our platform on the latest Amazon EC2 generations, Acquia customers realize up to a 60 percent performance improvement in page load times. These performance improvements on the newest AWS instances allow our customers to achieve even better experiences and innovate faster.

When the business says ‘go,’ we can do that now. We can stand up virtual servers instantly, instead of taking several weeks, whenever we need more compute and storage capacity to support new websites or online marketing campaigns.

AWS EC2 has allowed us to support a very fast growing number of clients without the need to pre-plan capacity. We are able to automate the provisioning and deployment of servers with a very small staff. This automation has also allowed us to save time and cost by not needing to patch servers once they are in use, we simply terminate the old ones and provision new ones with the latest bits.

One of my main duties is to find new ways to reduce costs, while maintaining the same performance levels. Reamp achieved that by using Amazon EC2 A1 instance types.

Amazon AWS P3 instances allow our research group to quickly prototype and validate deep learning models. We are able to build, test and deploy models faster than ever before.

Using Amazon EC2 P3 instances, we reduced the time to train our models by 75%. This significantly accelerates our research and development velocity as we can quickly incorporate new data and retrain models, explore ideas, increase model accuracy, and introduce new features faster.

The flexibility and power we get from AWS have helped Zendesk push past the cutting edge of deep-learning technology in the customer-service space.

We use Amazon EC2 P3 instances and EBS block storage service to develop network compression methods for accelerating the inference of neural networks. These AWS products allow us to run such compute-intensive tasks as image classification and investigation of large scale deep learning networks. It takes 60% less time to complete our algorithms with Amazon EC2 P3 instances as opposed to other less powerful alternatives. The AWS products are also easy to use - we can run Amazon EC2 instances just like a Linux computer! Also, the AWS support team has been very helpful and fast in addressing our questions.

We looked at many public clouds but AWS scored most highly against our key criteria, which included stability, security, and breadth of services.

By using AWS Spot instances, we've been able to save up to 75 percent a month simply by changing four lines of code. It makes perfect sense for saving money when you're running continuous integration workloads or pipeline processing.

Salesforce DMP, part of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, has acquired and scaled a global customer base without any concern about the limitations on the amount of data it can process. This is true even as our platform captures data from interactions from about three billion devices and about 40 billion page views each month. AWS has provided the tools to make this happen.

When you can dissolve the barrier that often exists between your IT organization and the business, that's when magic really starts to happen. The speed and elastic capacity that we get from the AWS Cloud—for both Spiral Suite and for the many other workloads we are now running there—are massively changing and transforming how we operate today.

The management and analysis of genomic data at the scale needed to power large-scale genome studies requires computational and storage infrastructure that exceeds the capacity of most institutions

The hardware and software combination we explored with Altair on AWS is, in our opinion, ideal for generating training data sets for machine learning methods, like Reduced Order Modeling. It will be the enabling technology for a systematic transition from individual simulations to interactive optimization of entire design spaces – with obvious advantages for the efficiency of our development process and the quality of our products.

Like other home entertainment services, Netflix has seen temporarily higher viewing and increased member growth during this unprecedented time. In order to meet this demand our control plane services needed to scale very quickly. This is where the value of AWS cloud and our strong partnership became apparent, both in being able to meet capacity needs in compute, storage, as well as providing the necessary infrastructure, such as AWS Auto Scaling, which is deeply ingrained in Netflix’s operations model.

As the global coronavirus pandemic affected the lives of millions around the world, Snapchat has played an important role in people’s lives, especially for helping close friends and family stay together emotionally while they are separated physically. In recent months, we have seen increased engagement across our platform resulting in higher workloads and the need to rapidly scale up our cloud infrastructure. For example, communication with friends increased by over 30 percent in the last week of March compared to the last week of January, with more than a 50 percent increase in some of our larger markets. AWS cloud has been valuable in helping us deal with this significant increase in demand, with services like EC2 and DynamoDB delivering high performance and reliability we need to provide the best experience for our customers.

In early March, our traffic grew significantly with the total number of global learners engaging on the network spiking within a matter of weeks. This required us to increase site capacity by 15 times. With AWS and Amazon EC2 instances, Edmodo has been able to quickly scale and meet this new demand so we could continue to provide teachers and students with our uninterrupted services for their distance learning needs. Having AWS always at our fingertips gives us elastic and robust compute capacity to scale rapidly.

Pinterest has been able to provide inspiration for an expanded global customer audience during this challenging period, whether looking for public health information, new foods to prepare, or projects and crafts to do with friends and family. Working closely with AWS, Pinterest has been able to ensure additional capacity was available during this period to keep Pinterest up and serving our customers.

With so many people working from home, we have seen explosive growth in traffic since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. In just two weeks our usage skyrocketed 300% over the pre-COVID-19 average. We have always run a hybrid infrastructure between our datacenters and public cloud and fortunately had already shifted critical workloads to Amazon EC2 services before the Coronavirus outbreak. The traffic surge in March 2020 led us to scale up on AWS. We took advantage of the global presence of AWS and nearly doubled the number of regions and added US East (Ohio), APAC (Mumbai) and APAC (Singapore). We also experimented with various instance types (C,M,R families) and time-of-day scaling and this served us well for managing costs. Overall, we were able to stay ahead of traffic increases smoothly and seamlessly. We appreciate the partnership with AWS.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extreme volatility in the U.S. securities markets, and since March we have seen market volumes increase by 2-3x. Our compute resources with AWS are automatically provisioned and can process a record peak and then shut down to nothing, without any human intervention. We automatically turn on and off up to 100,000 compute nodes in a single day. We would have been unable to handle this surge in volume within our on premises data center.

The rise of remote work and the increasing popularity of team collaboration tools has skyrocketed demand for ClickUp, putting pressures on their ability to scale. ClickUp has met this demand by prioritizing agility, urgency, and consistency to deliver on product development and faster innovation for their customers. For ClickUp, AWS was a clear choice given its advantages in providing cloud infrastructure that could help scale resources efficiently while also enabling ClickUp's product team to ship updates and releases on a daily and weekly basis without interrupting the customer experience. The ability to scale resources horizontally through Amazon EC2 and other AWS services, as well as vertically with elastic distribution, are key to ClickUp's continued success and rapid growth.

AWS provides us with the flexibility we need to stay at the forefront of consumer genomics. We’re confident that AWS provides us with unmatched scalability, security, and privacy.

When I was developer, you didn’t want to invest in architecture if you didn’t know how the application would turn out. I had to plan upfront and build a proof of concept to present to stakeholders. By using AWS, I’m not bound by throughput limitations or CPU capacity. When I think of AWS, freedom is the first word that comes to mind.

We haven't met a Windows Workload we can't run in AWS and run better—including Windows Server—with zero downtime.