Leading online retailer and manufacturer of high-quality personalized
products and services taps AWS to accelerate its cloud-first
transformation and deliver its next-generation platform
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 4, 2018--
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced that Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) is moving its
infrastructure to AWS—going all-in on the world’s leading cloud to power
its Cloud Transformation initiative. Shutterfly chose AWS for its
reliability, scale, and breadth of services that are already helping the
company be more agile and flexible in meeting the needs of millions of
consumers. Shutterfly is migrating all of its core production
applications and its more than 75-petabyte image library to AWS, and is
continually building new cloud-based applications. Shutterfly’s
next-generation platform is also being developed on AWS, where it can
leverage a wide range of AWS services, including machine learning and
analytics, to deliver a more streamlined customer experience.
“We evaluated all the major cloud providers, and chose AWS for its
unmatched security, reliability, and breadth of services which allowed
us to quickly migrate key assets, build cloud-based applications, and
run our core services with ease,” said Satish Menon, Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer at Shutterfly, Inc. “We are
especially excited about using AWS’s machine learning services. For
example, we are currently experimenting with Amazon Rekognition for
image classifications and metadata enrichment and Amazon Cognito for
identity services. The cost savings we expect to see by running on AWS
will enable us to put more resources towards innovation and developing
our next-generation platform.”
“Millions of customers turn to Shutterfly’s lifestyle brands to help
them make memorable moments last a lifetime,” said Mike Clayville, Vice
President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. “We are excited to deepen
our relationship with Shutterfly, enabling them to allocate more of
their valuable resources towards the development of new, cloud-based
applications that deliver even more value to their customers. Their
all-in approach will allow them to continually drive innovation with
speed and at scale as they leverage our broad range of services,
including machine learning capabilities, which work in parallel with the
AWS storage, database, and compute services already driving their
business.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking,
analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet
of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality
(VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 54 Availability Zones (AZs) within 18 geographic regions
and one Local Region around the world, spanning the U.S., Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active
customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups,
largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their
infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more
about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than
competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational
excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle
Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa
are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more
information, visit www.amazon.com/about
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About Shutterfly, Inc.
Shutterfly, Inc. is the leading digital retailer and manufacturer of
high-quality personalized products and services. Founded in 1999,
Shutterfly brings your photos to life in photo books, gifts, and cards
and stationery – through its flagship Shutterfly products, premium
offerings in its Tiny Prints boutique, as well as wedding invitations
and stationery for every step of the planning process; and through
BorrowLenses, the premier online marketplace for photographic and video
equipment rentals. Shutterfly, Inc. also operates Shutterfly Business
Solutions, delivering high quality digital printing services to the
enterprise market; and recently announced a definitive agreement to
acquire Lifetouch, the leader in school photography (expected to close
in the second quarter of 2018). For more information about Shutterfly,
Inc. (SFLY), visit www.shutterflyinc.com.
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