The cloud can help.
"With the cloud, you can spin up large instances to test, learn, and inno-
vate – then bring exactly the products you need to market," McLemore
says.
Here are just a few examples of how organizations in various indus-
tries have used simple cloud-based tools to build, test, and scale valu-
able services for their customers:
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Healthcare and medicine – During COVID-19, healthcare orga-
nizations quickly transitioned to telehealth and remote patient
monitoring solutions, allowing their customers to maintain care
without skipping a beat while avoiding the dangers of in-person
visits. Cloud-based AI led scientists to a better way of detect-
ing pneumonia, deploying a new model in just 10 days. Today,
medical researchers are doing advanced cloud-based modeling
to develop more personalized treatments for cancer and other
diseases.
{
Banking and finance – Banks are using advanced analytics to
keep their customers safer by preventing fraud and assessing
credit risk. They are also using the cloud to automate compliance,
create apps for easy online consumer shopping, and enable fast
and secure payments on websites, mobile apps, and even crypto-
currency exchanges.
{
Manufacturing – Factories are improving product quality and
reducing unplanned down time with predictive maintenance,
enabling them to ship defect-free products to customers without
delays. They are also optimizing travel routes to reduce product
spoilage. Manufacturers who move factory data to the cloud
lower costs by millions of dollars a year, and can pass some of the
savings along to their customers.
"
With the
cloud, you
can spin
up large
instances to
test, learn,
and innovate
—then bring
exactly the
products
you need to
market."
—Miriam McLemore,
enterprise strategist for
Amazon Web Services
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