Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud services and infrastructure for compute, storage, networking, and container orchestration that underpin modern AI applications.

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Cloud Infrastructure Tools

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Amazon EC2
AWS

Scalable cloud computing instances including GPU-accelerated P5 and G5 for AI workloads.

2
cases
AE
Amazon ECS
AWS

Managed container orchestration service for running and scaling Docker workloads on clusters without managing servers.

1
cases
AE
Amazon EKS
AWS

Managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications

3
cases
AS
Amazon S3
AWS

Scalable object storage service for storing and retrieving any volume of data with high availability and access controls.

1
cases
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AWS
AWS

Amazon's cloud computing platform providing on-demand infrastructure, storage, and managed services at global scale.

9
cases
AC
AWS CloudFormation
AWS

Infrastructure-as-code service that provisions and manages cloud resources through declarative configuration templates.

1
cases
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AWS Lambda
AWS

Serverless compute service that runs code in response to events.

3
cases
AP
AWS PrivateLink
AWS

Private network connectivity service by AWS for secure access to cloud services without internet exposure.

1
cases
AS
AWS Step Functions
AWS

Serverless workflow orchestration service that coordinates multi-step distributed applications across cloud services.

1
cases
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AWS Transform for VMware
AWS

Automates VMware migration wave planning, dependency mapping, and workload conversion to AWS-native infrastructure.

2
cases
AD
Azure Data Lake
Microsoft

Cloud data storage service by Microsoft Azure for storing large-scale structured and unstructured data.

1
cases
EC
Elastic Cloud
Elastic

Managed cloud hosting for the Elastic Stack, enabling search, observability, and security workloads without infrastructure management.

7
cases
EC
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Elastic

Serverless deployment model for Elastic cloud services that auto-scales infrastructure without capacity management.

2
cases
GC
GitHub Codespaces
GitHub

Cloud development environment by GitHub that lets developers code and collaborate directly in the browser.

1
cases
GC
Google Cloud
Google

Comprehensive cloud platform by Google offering compute, storage, AI, and data services at scale.

8
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Use Cases (60)

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JAKALA
Under 24 hours, down from 5–7 working days
campaign optimization cycle

JAKALA is a European data and AI company with more than 3,600 staff across 30+ countries, delivering integrated AI services to clients in banking, insurance, luxury hospitality, and telecommunications. The company built its AI Factory around the Claude Agent SDK—deploying specialized Performance Agents across client media and marketing workflows—and rolled out Claude Enterprise to over 3,000 employees. Senior delivery teams redirected roughly 70 percent of their time from data assembly and reporting to strategic client work, while campaign optimization cycles fell from 5–7 working days to under 24 hours.

Professional ServicesGCGoogle Cloud
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AudioShake
Top prize
aws re:invent unicorn tank competition

AudioShake is a San Francisco-based AI company that trains machine learning models to separate any audio recording into its individual components, serving the music, film, sports broadcasting, and AI training industries. Built entirely on AWS—using Amazon EC2 G6 GPU instances for model training and inference, with Amazon S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and Step Functions handling storage and orchestration—the company has built production-grade audio separation that was previously impossible. The infrastructure has enabled partnerships with Green Day, Disney Music Group, and The Sphere in Las Vegas, and earned AudioShake the top prize at the 2024 AWS re:Invent Unicorn Tank competition.

TechnologyAEAmazon EC2ASAmazon S3
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Allspice
20% → 97%
ingredient matching accuracy

Allspice is a food technology startup building a kitchen operating system that serves both home cooks and recipe publishers at scale. The company deployed Pinecone’s vector database as a semantic search layer to solve the fundamental problem of matching messy, real-world ingredient language to a structured internal database. Ingredient matching accuracy jumped from roughly 20% to 97%, enabling Allspice to launch its recipe importing feature and unlock new revenue streams for publishers.

Food & BeverageTechnologyGCGoogle Cloud Run
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HSE
4%
search page click-through rate increase

HSE is one of Europe’s leading live commerce retailers, reaching over 46 million households across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through three TV channels, an online shop, and a social commerce app. The company replaced its previous search vendor with Elasticsearch on Elastic Cloud, deploying AI and machine learning features to return more relevant results across a diverse customer base that includes both TV-driven shoppers and digitally native browsers. Within the first six months, HSE saw a 4% increase in search page click-through rates and an 8% improvement in customer satisfaction.

RetailECElastic CloudAAWS
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FedEx
+13 percentage points (25% to 40%)
customer activation rate improvement

FedEx unified siloed sales, shipping, and web data using Salesforce Data 360 to act on customer signals in real time. By automating dormant account reactivation and personalizing outreach at scale, FedEx achieved over 2,000% ROI and improved customer activation rates by 13%. The platform now powers more than one billion personalized emails annually.

Logistics & TransportationADAzure Data Lake
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Airtree
Reduced from 2 days to minutes
market & competitor research time

Airtree, a $2 billion Australian venture capital firm, deployed Claude Cowork as shared firm-wide infrastructure to unify fragmented data across tools like Notion, Slack, Google Drive, and Affinity. The team built custom Skills to automate board meeting prep, market research, and portfolio reporting — cutting multi-hour tasks down to minutes. What began as individual productivity gains quickly scaled into a collaborative system where Skills built by one person benefit the entire firm.

Financial ServicesGDGoogle Drive
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InpharmD
80%
data storage cost savings

InpharmD's AI assistant, Sherlock, leverages Pinecone's vector database to deliver fast, accurate drug information to healthcare professionals. By embedding 30 million medical documents into a RAG pipeline, InpharmD achieved 70% better query accuracy, 95x faster first response times, and 80% cost savings on data storage.

HealthcareAAWS
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1up
10x faster
response generation speed for rfps and compliance questionnaires

1up, a sales knowledge automation platform, integrated Pinecone's vector database to power a RAG-based system that delivers real-time, highly accurate answers to complex sales queries. The solution replaced a slow, home-grown embedding system and achieved 10x faster response generation for RFPs and compliance questionnaires. Sales reps can now handle high volumes of queries with confidence, reducing reliance on colleagues and accelerating the go-to-market process.

TechnologyAAWS
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Vanguard
12%
search result accuracy improvement

Vanguard partnered with Pinecone to build Agent Assist, an internal RAG-powered AI chat tool that helps customer support representatives find answers faster and more accurately. By replacing keyword-based search with hybrid vector retrieval, Vanguard achieved 12% more accurate search results and meaningfully reduced call times — even during high-demand periods like tax season.

Financial ServicesAPAWS PrivateLink
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Chipper Cash
95%+
selfie verification accuracy

Chipper Cash, a fintech serving over five million customers across Africa, deployed a Pinecone-powered facial similarity search system to detect and block fraudulent duplicate sign-ups in real time. The solution slashed identity verification latency from up to 20 minutes down to under 2 seconds, and reduced fraudulent sign-ups by 10x across all markets.

Financial ServicesGCGoogle Cloud
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Millennium bcp
2.6x higher
conversion rate lift — owned media (bigquery audiences vs. other first-party audiences)

Millennium bcp, Portugal's largest private bank, used Google Cloud's BigQuery machine learning tools to build predictive audience models for personal loan campaigns. By segmenting existing customers by propensity to borrow, the bank dramatically improved both owned and paid media performance. The result was a 2.6x higher conversion rate and a 36% drop in cost per acquisition.

Financial ServicesGCGoogle Cloud
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Pinterest
17% YoY
revenue growth

Pinterest built an AI-powered discovery engine on AWS processing 18TB daily, delivering 10 million AI recommendations per second across 10,000+ GPU instances, driving 17% revenue growth and 70% AI-driven discovery.

TechnologyAEAmazon EKS
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Humana
~66% (1/3 cost)
cost reduction

Humana replaced its legacy IVR system with an IBM Watson-based conversational voice agent that handles 7,000+ provider calls daily, completing inquiries in 2 minutes at one-third the previous cost.

HealthcareICIBM Cloud
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SIXT
70%
problem detection and resolution time decrease

Global mobility provider SIXT deployed IBM Instana Observability across 170+ AWS accounts and 2,000+ services, reducing problem detection and resolution time by 70% and detecting availability anomalies 50% faster.

Travel & HospitalityIIIBM Instana
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Scuderia Ferrari HP
2x
daily active users increase

Scuderia Ferrari HP partnered with IBM Consulting to reimagine their mobile fan app using IBM watsonx AI, delivering AI-generated race summaries, personalized content, and interactive features that doubled daily active users and increased in-app engagement by 35%.

Sports & EntertainmentIIIBM InstanaRHRed Hat OpenShift
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Blue Origin
2,700+
ai agents deployed

Blue Origin deployed 2,700+ AI agents with 70% company-wide adoption, achieving a 90% reduction in hardware development time using Amazon Bedrock.

ManufacturingAerospace & DefenseAEAmazon EKSALAWS Lambda
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Pfizer
93%
database reduction

Pfizer achieved a 93% database reduction and 20% cost avoidance by migrating their global SAP environment to S/4HANA on IBM Power10 infrastructure.

PharmaceuticalsTechnologyIPIBM Power10IPIBM PowerVM

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