Customer References

Question 1

Capital One (3 sentences - 1) who they are, 2) how they use AWS and 3) what is the benefit they get out of using AWS. )

Answer 1

Capital One is one of the nation’s largest banks providing credit cards and services to both consumers and businesses.

• Using AWS to reduce its data centers from 8 to 3
• using or experimenting with nearly every AWS service to develop, test, build and run its most critical workloads including its new flagship mobile-banking app
• selected AWS for its security model
• -ability to provision infrastructure on the fly
• -elasticity to handle purchasing demands at peak times
• -high availability
• -pace of innovation

Question 2

Intuit (3 sentences - 1) who they are, 2) how they use AWS and 3) what is the benefit they get out of using AWS. )

Answer 2

Intuit provides financial and tax preparation software for small businesses, accountants, and individuals worldwide.

• can reach new markets, speed development, and better serve its customers by using AWS
• Intuit began using AWS to host TurboTax AnswerXchange, an application that was only active during tax season, reducing its cost by a factor of six.
• Today, Intuit runs 33 applications on AWS and plans to move the rest to the cloud in the coming years.

Question 3

Airbnb (3 sentences - 1) who they are, 2) how they use AWS and 3) what is the benefit they get out of using AWS. )

Answer 3

Airbnb is a marketplace that allows property owners and travelers to connect with each other for the purpose of renting unique vacation spaces around the world.

• able to supports its IT infrastructure with just a five person operations team
• runs virtually all of its IT infrastructure on AWS using over 1,300 Amazon EC2 instances
• Amazon EMR to process 50 GB of daily logs
• Amazon S3 to store more than 50 TB of backups and static files
• Airbnb began experimenting with Amazon Redshift and has seen a 5x improvement over using Hive as its previous solution.

Question 4

Lyft (3 sentences - 1) who they are, 2) how they use AWS and 3) what is the benefit they get out of using AWS. )

Answer 4

Lyft is a San Francisco-based ridesharing company operating in more than 190 cities.

• uses Amazon EC2 Spot instances for testing code before it goes into production
• By using Spot, the startup saves up to 75 percent monthly versus on-demand instances for routine testing processes that do not require the most current or most powerful compute resources.

Question 5

Pinterest (3 sentences - 1) who they are, 2) how they use AWS and 3) what is the benefit they get out of using AWS. )

Answer 5

Pinterest provides one of the world’s largest visual bookmarking tools, with more than 70 million monthly active users and 50 billion pins.

• maintains developer velocity and site scalability
• manage multiple petabytes of data each day
• perform daily refreshes of its massive search index.
• Pinterest uses AWS to run its website, ingest and store data, and develop and deploy new site features.