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Oct 22, 2024

Aiven Achieves the AWS Retail Competency & Hosts AWS Immersion Day

Transforming retail: Aiven and Amazon Web Services (AWS) empower businesses with real-time data insights for better customer experiences.

Elena Zykova

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VP, Global Partnerships at Aiven

We’re excited to announce that Aiven has achieved the prestigious AWS Retail Competency, in the category of Advanced Data Insights. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency recognizes Aiven’s expertise in providing customers with software solutions that empower retailers to gain valuable data insights to drive business success.

Enhancing Retail with Real-Time Data Analytics on AWS

By using the Aiven Data and AI Platform on AWS, retailers gain advanced, real-time data analytics capabilities without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. The result? Actionable insights that translate into better shopping experiences, more satisfied customers and more revenue.

Achieving the AWS Retail Competency differentiates Aiven as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in running cloud solutions on AWS for the retail industry. This program showcases retail technology software AWS Partners who have domain knowledge and are providing cloud services powered by AWS. To receive the AWS Retail Technology Competency designation, AWS Partners must undergo a rigorous technical validation by AWS solution architects and have verified customer references.

Aiven and AWS: Powering Retail Innovation

“We’re thrilled Aiven has achieved the AWS Retail Competency as it underscores our commitment to both AWS and to helping retail organizations unlock the full potential of their data. From personalizing customer experiences and supercharging websites through to AI-powered chatbots and fraud prevention, our real-time data and AI platform on AWS enables retailers to fast-track innovation and delight their customers. We are proud to be an AWS Partner Network (APN) member, and achieving this competency is another important milestone in our strategic relationship with AWS,” said Elena Zykova, Vice President, Global Partnerships, Aiven.

idealo’s Real-Time Data Solution with Aiven on AWS

idealo, an online price comparison service that operates in six European countries, is just one example of a business benefiting from the combination of Aiven and AWS services. Its website has over 72 million users a month who compare prices for 500 million products offered from 50,000 merchants.

"idealo has a super-fast, reliable and secure infrastructure that handles and analyzes the massive amounts of data generated by our price comparison service. Aiven for Apache Kafka® on AWS is instrumental in getting the best prices to our customers in near real-time. Aiven has removed the complexities of managing the underlying data infrastructure from our team and we also get to benefit from Aiven’s deep AWS expertise. "The Aiven and AWS partnership is a win-win for us,” said Wanis Fahmy, Senior Cloud Engineer, idealo.

Join Us for AWS Immersion Day: Retail Transformation with AI and Real-Time Data

Are you a retailer keen to know more about extracting value from your data? Do you want to see our AWS Retail Competency skills in action? Then join Aiven, AWS and your peers at the ‘AWS Immersion Day: Transforming Retail with Real-Time Data Pipelines and AI Agents.’ The half-day workshop will take place at the AWS office in Berlin, November 20, 2024.

In addition to getting hands-on experience with Aiven and AWS services, you’ll learn how leading retailers are using event-streaming architectures and real-time data pipelines to transform their ecommerce, stores, supply chain, merchandising, customer support and more.


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