Improving Retail Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedImproving Retail Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning The global retail market continues to grow larger and the influx of consumer data increases daily. The rise in volume, variety, and velocity of data poses challenges with demand forecasting and inventory planning. Outdated systems generate inaccurate demand forecasts. This results in multiple challenges for retailers. They…

Choosing a Well-Architected CI/CD approach: Open Source on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedChoosing a Well-Architected CI/CD approach: Open Source on AWS Introduction When building a CI/CD platform, it is important to make an informed decision regarding every underlying tool. This post explores evaluating the criteria for selecting each tool focusing on a balance between meeting functional and non-functional requirements, and maximizing value. Your first decision: source…

Access Amazon Location Service from Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAccess Amazon Location Service from Amazon Redshift Organizations typically store business and customer data in databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Redshift, and often want to enrich this data by integrating with external services. One such enrichment is to add spatial attributes such as location coordinates for an address. With…