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Samsung Heavy Industries selects AWS as cloud provider

By TechTaffy Desk

Samsung Heavy Industries has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, Amazon said in a statement on Wednesday.

Samsung Heavy Industries’ smart shipping systems on AWS is leveraging services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), Simple Storage Solution (S3), Key Management Service (KMS), and CloudTrail.

Samsung Heavy Industries also built a big data analytics ship navigation system using Amazon Redshift, says Amazon. The company is also using AWS machine learning services, including Polly and Lex, and will use Sumerian to create a virtual replica of the ship cockpit for land-based training and simulations.

[Image courtesy: Samsung Heavy Industries]

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