Shutterfly Goes All-In on AWS
April 04 2018 - 8:59AM
Business Wire
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
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.
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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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